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Peer reviewedFagan, William T. – Journal of Reading, 1995
Compares and comments on two recent national surveys of adult literacy standards in the United States and Canada, which move away from reporting the number of literates/illiterates and use levels of literacy proficiency. Notes that different concepts for literacy levels, different types of sampling, and different ways of measuring literacy and…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
