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Relationships among Competencies and Practices of Reading. Reading Competencies and Practices. Technical Report #7. Final Report.

Guthrie, John; And Others – 1984

A study was conducted to construct measures of reading competencies that are frequently needed in an occupational environment and to describe the influence of the components of reading practice on these competencies based on the conceptual framework of ethnographic psychology. The reading practices of 25 electrical engineers and 30 electronic…

Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Electronic Technicians, Engineers

Prose Comprehension and Text Search as a Function of Reading Volume. Reading Competencies and Practices. Technical Report #3.

Kirsch, Irwin; Guthrie, John – 1982

Psychometric and ethnographic frameworks were used to explore the relationships among adults' uses for reading and their demonstrated competencies with related domains of tasks. Information regarding frequently occurring reading tasks was gathered from 42 adults in both work and leisure settings by means of questionnaires, interviews, and…

Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Ethnography, Individual Needs