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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
