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Exploring Thresholds in the Foundational Skills for Reading and Comprehension Outcomes in the Context of Postsecondary Readers
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Joseph P. Magliano; Amani Talwar; Daniel P. Feller; Zuowei Wang; Tenaha O'Reilly; John Sabatini – Grantee Submission, 2023
There is a range of reasons why college students may be underprepared to read, but one possibility is that some college students are below a threshold of proficiency in the component skills of reading. The presence of thresholds means that when students fall below that threshold, their proficiency in that component skill of reading is not…
Descriptors: College Students, Reading Skills, Reading Achievement, Comprehension
Exploring Thresholds in the Foundational Skills for Reading and Comprehension Outcomes in the Context of Postsecondary Readers
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Joseph P. Magliano; Amani Talwar; Daniel P. Feller; Zuowei Wang; Tenaha O'Reilly; John Sabatini – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2023
There is a range of reasons why college students may be underprepared to read, but one possibility is that some college students are below a threshold of proficiency in the component skills of reading. The presence of thresholds means that when students fall below that threshold, their proficiency in that component skill of reading is not…
Descriptors: College Students, Reading Skills, Reading Achievement, Comprehension
Examining Individual Differences in PIAAC Literacy Performance: Reading Components and Demographic Characteristics of Low-Skilled Adults from the U.S. Prison and Household Samples. Commissioned Paper
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Elizabeth L. Tighe; Deborah K. Reed; Gal Kaldes; Amani Talwar; Christina Doan – Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2022
In the most recent assessment by the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), approximately 19% of adults in the United States scored at or below Level 1 in literacy (National Center for Education Statistics [NCES], 2019a). Adults who performed at Level 1 were only able to identify one key piece of information from…
Descriptors: Adults, Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Illiteracy