Literacy Skills Test

Can either use the Instrument for the Diagnosis of Reading (IDR) test, which is the standard literacy skills assessment test, to test ReadySC training participants. This test has an already-establish coding system. Or, the Educational Testing Service (ETS) test, which was used in the Department of Labor survey of JTPA and Employment Service/Unemployment Insurance client populations, which "assesses an individual's ability using task descriptions that are couched in terms of actual life and work experiences...[to] reflect the human capital content of the works that is usually useful in their productive activities in the workplace," whereas the traditional literacy assessment focuses more on the "academic skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic in isolation from the world of work" (U.S. Dept of Labor, Workplace Literacy and the Nation's Unemployed, p. 24).

Follow similar methods to the literacy testing of Medicaid patients in:

Weiss, B.D., & Palmer, R. (2004). Relationship between health care costs and very low literacy skills in a medically needy and indigent Medicaid population. Journal of the American Board of Family Practice, 17(1), which were approved by the University of Arizona Human Subjects Protection Program.

OR

U.S. Department of Labor. (1993). Workplace literacy and the nation's unemployed workers.
Also, take a closer look at the methodology used in Hiring, Retention and Training: Employers' Perspectives on Trade and Soft Skills in South Carolina, for interviewing/surveying employers/HR personnel (they used focus groups, but this is probably a good guide to work from).