Assessing Results that Matter: Equipped for the Future's Approach to Assessment for Adult Basic Education Accountability and Improvement. June 2002. Regie Stites. This policy brief explains the EFF approach to developing good assessment tools and to ensuring that these tools are put to good use in improving the quality of adult education.

Equipped for the Future: A Customer-Driven Vision for Adult Literacy and Life Long Learning. June 1995. Sondra G. Stein. This 121-page research report and compilation of essays by adult learners on how improving their literacy skills has changed their lives is the foundation of a long-term project to create national literacy standards and systemic reform.

Equipped for the Future Content Standards: What Adults Need to Know and Be Able to Do in the 21st Century. February 2000. Sondra Stein. This guide shows how content standards based on real-world skills can make the adult education system more responsive to learners' needs and also build stronger ties to workforce development and other lifelong learning efforts.

Downloadable Masters from the EFF Special Collection

• EFF Worker Role Map and indicators
• EFF Content Standards
• EFF Standards Skills Wheel
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