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Peer reviewedMonteith, Mary K. – Journal of Reading, 1980
Reviews research on the average reading level in the United States, on how well the average American needs to read, and on what the average American can and does read. (MKM)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textJennings, Edward T., Jr.; Whitler, Elmer T. – 1997
The Kentucky Adult Literacy Survey, which was based on the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS), was conducted to determine the prose, document, and quantitative literacy levels of the state's adult population. Trained interviewers conducted hour-long interviews with 1,492 Kentucky citizens between the ages of 16 and 65 who had been selected…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Comparative Analysis, Educational Attainment
Statistics Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1995
The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) was a collaborative effort by seven governments and three intergovernmental organizations to describe and compare the literacy skills of people from Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Each country drew a probability sample from which results…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Comparative Analysis
