Our Mission

To discover and document the assessment needs in adult education and workforce development, and to meet these needs by creating and supporting online banks of literacy and numeracy tasks to serve the assessment needs of adult learners, adult educators, employers, and researchers.




The CREATE Adult Skills Network is a national initiative to build knowledge about using technology to support teaching and learning. It is funded by the Institute of Education Sciences. ASAP is one of the six projects funded by IES.

The research reported here was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305N210031 to University of Massachusetts Amherst. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U.S. Department of Education.