National Adult Literacy Database

The goal of this document is to help employers learn more about the reading skills of their employees by providing examples of Level 1 and Level 2 assessment questions. Using this tool allows employers to obtain information about the skills employees bring to the workplace; identify current employees’ training needs; and improve workplace training to target specific skill areas for improvement.

While the authors have based the questions on actual workplace tasks performed in a variety of occupations, specialized knowledge is not required in order to answer the questions.

The authors note that employers may want to give employees the opportunity to administer and mark the questions themselves.