U.S. College Student Literacy Assessment, 1,827 Graduates

1,827 graduating college students from eighty institutions were assessed for their literacy. The data measures the ability to perform prose tasks, comprehend forms, and conduct quantitative, computational tasks. It was authored by Justin Baer for the United States Department of Education.

Use Cases

• Model literacy proficiency levels based on described prose task performance.
• Analyze correlations between institutional factors and quantitative task scores.
• Benchmark computational task ability across different student populations.

Strengths

• Includes data from 1,827 individual students.
• Covers a sample from eighty distinct institutions.
• Assesses multiple literacy domains: prose, document, and quantitative.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

United States Department of Education

Collection Method

Assessment of graduating students.

Geography

United States