Return-Path: <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f3NF2Tg21603; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:02:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:02:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <B49B36B1086DD41187DC000077893CFB03BBFCBA@rosnt46.ets.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Nickols, Fred" <FNickols@ets.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE:144] A Revolutionary New Literacy Assessment X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Status: O Content-Length: 1702 Lines: 38 Educational Testing Service, the world's largest non-profit private educational testing and measurement organization and a leader in educational research, needs your help in piloting a revolutionary new literacy assessment. ETS Literacy Services is in need of ABE and Literacy Programs that would be willing to administer our assessment to your participants and provide the results back to us so that we can calibrate the items and finalize the instrument. This is a computer administered and self-scoring assessment that will provide literacy information on the same three scales that the National Adult Literacy Survey measured: Prose, Document, and Quantitative. Program sites that are interested in participating in this study should contact Tony Ostrander, Operations Manager for ETS Literacy Services at 609-734-1445 between 8:30 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. EDST. Sites participating in the study will receive free copies of the final software product to conduct the assessments, 2 free assessments for every one completed assessment they turn in for the study, plus a US$200 honorarium payment either to the program or to the site administrator. Minimum hardware and software requirements for participating in the study are: 1. PC's must be running Windows 95, 98, or NT with a minimum of 16 MB of RAM 2. 17" monitor preferred (although a 15" monitor will work) capable of color at 256 and screen resolution of 1024x768 3. Sound Card with headphones (preferred) or speakers 4. CD-ROM Drive 5. Internet connection or a floppy disk drive to accommodate a 3.5" floppy disk Thank you. Fred Nickols Executive Director Educational Testing Service Princeton, NJ 08541 Tel (609) 734-5077
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