NRS Tips: Increasing Posttesting to Improve Measurable Skill Gains

The primary indicators of performance for which adult education programs must collect data include measurable skill gains (MSG), or “a measure of a participant’s interim progress towards a credential or employment.” Although many factors affect an adult education program’s MSG outcome, a critical one is a program’s pretesting and posttesting rate. This NRSTips summarizes strategies that two states—Maine and Rhode Island—have used to successfully increase their posttesting rates.