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Kazemek, Francis E. – 1983
The Adult Performance Level (APL) project, which developed and validated a series of objectives for adult functional competency free from school-based notions of literacy, is the most widely accepted approach to adult literacy and adult literacy education in the United States today. Yet a review of the project and its impact reveals that the APL…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Competency Based Education, Functional Literacy
Download full textSpencer, Mary L.; And Others – 1975
As part of the development of a functional literacy test for fourth through eighth grade children in Title I compensatory education programs, this report enumerates a set of criteria for selecting appropriate tests. The criteria are grouped into six categories: (1) test background; (2) psychometric quality; (3) examinee appropriateness; (4)…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Evaluation Criteria, Functional Literacy
