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What Can Employers Assume about the Literacy Skills of GED Graduates? NCAL Brief.

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Kaplan, David; Venezky, Richard L. – 1995

The literacy skills of General Educational Development (GED) program graduates were compared to those of high school graduates and high school dropouts who did not pass the GED test. The sample of 1,012 young adults (ages 21 to 25 years) studied was obtained by selecting all Whites, African Americans, and Hispanics who were studied in the Young…

Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Comparative Analysis, Dropouts

What Can Employers Assume about the Literacy Skills of GED Graduates?

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Kaplan, David; Venezky, Richard L. – 1993

What can employers assume about the literacy skills of General Educational Development (GED) program graduates? A subsample of 1,012 young adults, aged 21 to 25, selected from the Young Adult Literacy Survey (YALS) was used to study this question. The sample consisted of all Caucasians, African-Americans, and Hispanics in the following categories:…

Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Dropout Characteristics