Test Results/Educational Functioning Levels (EFLs)
About half of RI's adult learners are in ESL programs. Fully 93% of them have 8th-grade skills or lower, and are therefore not ready to take the GED.
Prior to enrolling in Adult Education courses, applicants take a pre-test to determine their educational functioning level or EFL. The graph above shows the entrance-level skills of the 6,061 adult learners who enrolled in fiscal year 2012-2013.
Please note that even dedicated low-skilled workers can take 4 or 5 years to master the skills required for a GED -- and that even GED skills don't meet the requirements of Accuplacer, the placement exam that serves as gatekeeper to credit-bearing courses in higher education.
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