ALL Partners

NCES worked with the following agencies or organizations to carry out the Adult Literacy and Lifeskills Survey (ALL) in the United States:

• Statistics Canada served as the international coordinating body for ALL, and with an international steering group that included NCES, directed the design, operations, analysis, and reporting for ALL on the international level.
• The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) provided support for dissemination of ALL results on the international level.
• The Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) at the U.S. Department of Education provided support for ALL data collection and analysis in the United States, as well as for additional studies of adult education program participants using ALL instruments.
• The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) at the U.S. Department of Education provided additional funding necessary to complete the study in the United States.
• The Department of Labor also supported the implementation of the ALL study.
• Westat coordinated the U.S. data collection for ALL.