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Examining Individual Differences in PIAAC Literacy Performance: Reading Components and Demographic Characteristics of Low-Skilled Adults from the U.S. Prison and Household Samples. Commissioned Paper
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Elizabeth L. Tighe; Deborah K. Reed; Gal Kaldes; Amani Talwar; Christina Doan – Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2022
In the most recent assessment by the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), approximately 19% of adults in the United States scored at or below Level 1 in literacy (National Center for Education Statistics [NCES], 2019a). Adults who performed at Level 1 were only able to identify one key piece of information from…
Descriptors: Adults, Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Illiteracy
Examining Correlates of PIAAC Literacy and Passage Comprehension Performance among the U.S. Adult Prison Population
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Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Reed, Deborah K.; Branum-Martin, Lee; Nwosu, Nonyé A. O. – Journal of Correctional Education, 2019
This study used the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) prison sample to explore the predictive contributions of Print Vocabulary and Sentence Processing skills to the Literacy and Passage Comprehension performance of 461 U.S. prisoners. Both predictors were significant, but Print Vocabulary accounted for less…
Descriptors: Correlation, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Literacy