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The Adult Skills Assessment Project (ASAP) is addressing the bias that underlies traditional assessment development and validation. This bias does not recognize how oppressive systems like racism can impact test design and development. ASAP believes in accessible, justice-oriented, anti-racist, and culturally sustaining assessment practices. In alignment with these beliefs, ASAP has a new antiracist equity statement as an alterative design, development, and validation approach to assessment. The equity statement promotes practices that involve engaging…

Stakeholder leaders joined the 2nd Network-wide meeting to connect with research teams and weigh in on workgroup agendas.   In spring, the CREATE Adult Skills Network Leads convened the second Network meeting. The meeting marked three milestones for the Network including bringing in a sixth research team, establishing workgroups, and introducing research teams to the Stakeholder Leaders. At every turn, this gathering was brimming with new connections and, with them, insights and inspiring ideas for partnership that will broaden the impact of the Network.…

CILIA-T stands for Content-Integrated Language Instruction for Adults with Technology Support. Funded by the Institute for Education Sciences, this five-year project will build and pilot a standards-aligned, 16-module curriculum designed for intermediate-level adult English learners to broaden their academic vocabulary, morphological skills, and critical thinking application while engaging U.S. history and civics content through a thematic lens. Read More  

The CREATE Adult Skills Network (the Network) research teams are developing technology-supported learning and assessment tools and implementing curricula to help adult learners build digital skills. Throughout this work, each team has noted the importance of gaining a better understanding of the digital skills learners need to fully participate in the research projects. To that end, this Network Brief will introduce several widely used and relevant digital literacy frameworks and assessment strategies used in adult education. The resources we discuss in this…