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Cohen, Dale J.; Snowden, Jessica L. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2008
This study assessed the utility of document prevalence and familiarity as predictors of adult document literacy performance. Three indexes--quantifying document prevalence, document familiarity, and the frequency of document use--were constructed using survey responses from an adult community sample and documents collected from government agencies…
Descriptors: Incidence, Familiarity, Adult Literacy, Public Agencies
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Fischer, Ronald G.; Fischer, Jerome M. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2006
Based on theories of emotional intelligence, adult education, psychology of reading, and emotions and literature, this study was designed to develop and validate the Affective Response to Literature Survey (ARLS), a psychological instrument used to measure an emotional response to literature. Initially, 27 items were generated by a review of…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Transformative Learning, Reader Response, Emotional Response