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Direct linkWhite, Sheida – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2011
Very often, we understand differences in literacy performance exclusively in terms of the skills that individuals bring to the literacy tasks they face. Drawing on a new, highly integrative theory of functional literacy--the text-task-respondent (TTR) theory--this article presents a set of seven literacy skills that are required for everyday…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Functional Literacy, Adult Literacy, Task Analysis
Chen, Jing; White, Sheida; McCloskey, Michael; Soroui, Jaleh; Chun, Young – Assessing Writing, 2011
This study investigated the comparability of paper and computer versions of a functional writing assessment administered to adults 16 and older. Three writing tasks were administered in both paper and computer modes to volunteers in the field test of an assessment of adult literacy in 2008. One set of analyses examined mode effects on scoring by…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Technology
White, Sheida; Chen, Jing; Forsyth, Barbara – Journal of Literacy Research, 2010
This article presents data on the types and duration of reading-related activities reported by a volunteer sample of 400 adults (demographically similar to the U.S. adult population age 20 and older in terms of race, ethnicity, education, and working status) in the 2005 Real-World Tasks Study. This diary study revealed that adults spent, on…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Adult Literacy, Prose, Recreational Reading
