The IALS approach to defining and measuring literacy skills

Autor:	Emmanuel Boudard, Stan Jones
Rok vydání:	2003
Předmět:	Literacy skill Adult literacy media_common.quotation_subject Information literacy Pedagogy Mathematics education Psychology Functional illiteracy Literacy Education media_common Term (time)
Zdroj:	International Journal of Educational Research. 39:191-204
ISSN:	0883-0355
DOI:	10.1016/j.ijer.2004.04.003
Popis:	The term “illiterate” that is commonly used to describe someone who cannot read or write is an absolute term, which fails to recognize that those who are deemed “illiterate” are probably in fact “literate” to some degree. The approach taken to define and measure literacy in the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) acknowledges the limitation of viewing literacy in a dichotomous way. The IALS assesses literacy proficiency along a continuum. This chapter considers some of the conceptual issues surrounding the definition and measurement of literacy proficiency. In particular, it addresses what the IALS literacy proficiency measure is and what it is not.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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