Authors:David GyarmatiNorm LeckieMichael DowieBoris PalametaTaylor Shek-Wai HuiElizabeth DunnSophie Hébert
A large-scale demonstration project to measure the impacts of literacy and essential skills (LES) training in the workplace. The project uses a random assignment design to provide the most reliable measures of the impacts of LES training on workers skills, their job performance, and other outcomes relevant to workers and firm-level objectives. Approximately 80-100 firms and 1,200 workers participated, half of whom received training; the other half served as a control group in the study.
Published: August 2014
Capability: Experimentation
Policy Area: Adult Learning - Literacy and Essential Skills
Population: General Population - Low-skilled Workers
Type: Executive summary, Technical paper, Report
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