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| Adult Literacy | 1 |
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| Functional Literacy | 1 |
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Peer reviewedHayes, Elisabeth R.; Valentine, Thomas – Adult Education Quarterly, 1989
One hundred sixty adult basic education students functioning at or below the sixth-grade level rated the extent to which they needed to learn 20 functional tasks. Factor analysis suggested three broad categories: everyday reading and writing, math and measurement, and special literacy tasks. Cluster analysis identified distinct subgroups based on…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Daily Living Skills, Educational Needs
