Case Study: Literacy Action achieves faster, more accurate student assessment and streamlined class placement with Wonderlic GAIN

Literacy Action - Customer Case Study

Literacy Action, founded in 1968, is an Atlanta nonprofit that provides GED prep, math, English, financial literacy, computer and work-readiness classes to low-income adults. Facing a regional crisis—nearly 20% of Atlanta’s adults are functionally illiterate—the organization serves roughly 600–700 students annually (nearly 1,000 in 2010) and needed more efficient intake, assessment and retention methods.

To streamline services they moved to a semester-based curriculum and adopted the Wonderlic GAIN assessment, replacing a two-day, manual testing process with fast online scoring and placement reports. The changes improved class placement and tracking, simplified state reporting, and helped boost student retention from about 50% to 85%, enabling teachers to better target instruction.

Literacy Action

Paige Pushkin

Director of Operations