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| Adult Literacy | 1 |
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| Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
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Peer reviewedSticht, Thomas G.; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1972
Project REALISTIC, sponsored by the Department of the Army under contract with the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO), was designed to determine functional literacy levels for selected military jobs having civilian counterparts. (MM)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Functional Literacy, Reading Ability, Reading Research
Peer reviewedKirsch, Irwin; Guthrie, John T. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1977
After reviewing the literature on functional literacy, proposes that new measures be developed and classified according to the practical information to be obtained and the decisions to be made from them. (AA)
Descriptors: Adults, Elementary Secondary Education, Functional Literacy, Literacy
Peer reviewedFisher, Donald L. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1981
A study attempted to identify those performance-related factors that were responsible for subjects' errors on one measure of functional literacy. The analysis of errors revealed that the majority of errors could be explained in terms of information processing failures. (MKM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Error Analysis (Language), Functional Literacy
