Technical Report and Data File User's Manual for the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey.

Irwin Kirsch, Kentaro Yamamoto, Norma Norris, Donald Rock, Ann Jungeblut, and Patricia O’Reilly Educational Testing Service Anne Campbell Dine College Lynn Jenkins Wordsworth Writing and Editing Andrew Kolstad National Center for Education Statistics Martha Berlin, Leyla Mohadjer, Joseph Waksberg, Huseyin Goksel, John Burke, Susan Rieger, James Green, and Merle Klein Westat, Inc. Peter Mosenthal Syracuse University Stephane Baldi American Institutes for Research

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