Measuring Adult Literacy and Life Skills: New Framework for Assessment

Organizations (both work and non-work) throughout the world are increasingly relying on work teams. A work team is defined as a group of individuals who produce goods or services for which they are all accountable. A distinguishing feature of all work teams is that members of the team are "interdependent", that is, members of the team must work together to perform work tasks. No team member can accomplish the team's tasks alone. Below is a series of statements about work teams that are associated with specific things that teams do, such as making decisions, communicating, interacting, etc. Please indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with each statement.

	Strongly disagree	Disagree	Neither agree nor disagree	Agree	Strongly agree
1) Teams should always choose the first suggestion offered when trying to make an important decision.	¹ 92	² 38	³ 16	⁴ 6	⁵ 3
2) Teams should gather information from a wide variety of sources when making an important decision.	¹ 0	² 0	³ 2	⁴ 48	⁵ 102
3) Team members should try to anticipate potential problems with the team's decision.	¹ 0	² 1	³ 15	⁴ 76	⁵ 59
4) Teams should let the most skilled team member make important decisions for the rest of the team.	¹ 34	² 60	³ 30	⁴ 18	⁵ 8
5) Team members should ignore most team decisions.	¹ 100	² 42	³ 3	⁴ 3	⁵ 1
6) Team members should discuss potential problems with the team's decision.	¹ 1	² 1	³ 9	⁴ 68	⁵ 70
7) Teams should assign one person from the team to make the decision for the rest of the team.	¹ 76	² 51	³ 12	⁴ 9	⁵ 1
8) Teams should make important decisions after evaluating different alternatives.	¹ 1	² 1	³ 6	⁴ 73	⁵ 68
9) Team members should quit the team if they don't like a decision.	¹ 43	² 56	³ 36	⁴ 9	⁵ 3
10) Team members should refrain from voicing their opinions about team decisions.	¹ 62	² 52	³ 17	⁴ 14	⁵ 3
11) Team members should try to understand the reasons for the team's decision.	¹ 1	² 12	³ 14	⁴ 84	⁵ 49
12) Teams should ask someone who is not a member of the team to make an important decision.	¹ 63	² 54	³ 25	⁴ 5	⁵ 2
13) Teams should gather information mainly from the team's supervisor when making a decision.	¹ 32	² 57	³ 33	⁴ 20	⁵ 5
14) Team members should share information when making an important decision.	¹ 1	² 1	³ 2	⁴ 55	⁵ 90
15) Teams members should ignore the schedule and perform the work at their own pace.	¹ 42	² 66	³ 27	⁴ 10	⁵ 3
16) Team members should help other members with the work if they need it.	¹ 0	² 2	³ 6	⁴ 84	⁵ 57
17) Teams should try to get everyone on the team to work at the same pace.	¹ 6	² 37	³ 37	⁴ 53	⁵ 15
18) Teams should revise deadlines for team members who are behind schedule.	¹ 6	² 46	³ 42	⁴ 46	⁵ 8
19) Teams should tell new members to stay out of the way.	¹ 75	² 63	³ 6	⁴ 2	⁵ 2
20) Teams should ask individuals outside of the team how the team is doing.	¹ 12	² 25	³ 44	⁴ 57	⁵ 9
21) Teams should make the person who shows up last do any additional work.	¹ 58	² 65	³ 19	⁴ 4	⁵ 2
22) Team members should make suggestions to other members as to how to improve their performance.	¹ 4	² 4	³ 23	⁴ 81	⁵ 36
23) Teams should assign new team members the easy tasks.	¹ 18	² 53	³ 40	⁴ 34	⁵ 3
24) Teams should distribute new work equally among team members.	¹ 1	² 4	³ 17	⁴ 82	⁵ 44
25) Team members should evaluate each other's performance.	¹ 5	² 26	³ 38	⁴ 61	⁵ 17
26) Teams should punish members who make mistakes.	¹ 60	² 60	³ 18	⁴ 8	⁵ 1
27) Team members should act as though differences of opinion are not very important.	¹ 30	² 47	³ 17	⁴ 43	⁵ 12
28) Team members should be open to different ways of doing things.	¹ 1	² 0	³ 3	⁴ 76	⁵ 68
29) Teams members should be open to suggestions.	¹ 0	² 2	³ 2	⁴ 82	⁵ 63
30) Teams should discourage team members from bringing up differences of opinion.	¹ 44	² 77	³ 14	⁴ 8	⁵ 3
31) Team members should distract other members during team meetings.	¹ 87	² 49	³ 6	⁴ 1	⁵ 2