Literacy

Evidence Review

Topic Overview

This topic area focuses on the effectiveness of literacy interventions for adults, including English-language learners, designed to increase employment and earnings by improving participants’ reading, writing, technological/digital, and financial skills. CLEAR assessed the quality of the causal evidence and summarized its approach, findings, and the intervention examined.

Status: Literature reviewed in this topic area currently covers 2000 - 2018.

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Find CLEAR's plain-language reviews of individual studies to learn about what a study found, how it was designed, and how relevant it may be to your needs.

How do we review evidence?

View the review protocol to learn more about how the studies you see here were selected for CLEAR's evidence review.