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Gadway, Charles; Wilson, H. A. – 1975
The functional literacy of various groups of 17-year-old students was assessed to discover whether the reading skills which are usually taught in the schools are adequate for functioning in everyday life. Eighty-six test exercises were classified according to the various formats of reading materials they represent and according to the types of…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Critical Reading, Functional Literacy, Functional Reading
Rose, Andrew M.; Cox, Louis A., Jr. – 1980
Twenty-four adults participated in an experiment to determine the difficulty of conditional sentences of the kinds frequently found in the instructions in government forms. The stimulus materials were 128 sentence frames of the form, "If you are X, press button Y," where X was replaced by sixteen different coordinate structures. These…
Descriptors: Adults, Functional Literacy, Functional Reading, Language Research
Hunt, Suzanne Mahn – 1982
Prompted by concern that the State of New Jersey driver's manual was too difficult for many low-skilled readers to read and comprehend, a study was conducted in which chapter 6 of the driver's manual was rewritten, lowering its readability level from grade 8 to grade 6. It was hypothesized that significant differences in comprehension would result…
Descriptors: Driver Education, Functional Literacy, Functional Reading, Government Publications
Brown, Rexford; Bowditch, Deborah – 1979
Results of a 1977 assessment of the reading abilities of approximately 1,250 adults (26 to 35 years old) are reported in this paper and are compared with results of a similar assessment made in 1971. After discussing a typical comprehension exercise used in the assessment, the paper presents the materials and multiple choice questions used in…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, Educational Assessment, Functional Literacy
Gadway, Charles J.; Wilson, H. A. – 1976
This handbook is designed to give background information on the Mini-Assessment of Functional Literacy, a criterion-referenced test designed to determine the extent of functional literacy among seventeen year olds in America. The five format categories identified for the test were passages; drawings, pictures, signs, etc.; charts, maps, graphs;…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Functional Literacy, Functional Reading, Literacy