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Direct linkElizabeth L. Tighe; Jamie L. Tock; Yaacov Petscher; Gal Kaldes – Grantee Submission, 2024
This study uses Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) data to examine latent profiles of engagement in reading, numeracy, writing, and computer skills-use for U.S. adults with low literacy skills. Additionally, we examine how these profiles relate to overall literacy performance and demographic heterogeneity.…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Reading Skills, Numeracy, Learning Disabilities
Download full textMargaret Becker Patterson – Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2022
A sizeable proportion of adults has learning disabilities (LD); along with having LD, incidence of other disabilities and health conditions is a concern. Adults with LD face educational and employment challenges as well. Little is known about their skills in numeracy and digital literacy and how they use those skills, whether in the workplace or…
Descriptors: Adults, Adult Education, Learning Disabilities, Numeracy
Patterson, Margaret Becker – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2022
Learning disabilities (LD) impact the lives of many U.S. adults, who may also have other disabilities and health conditions. Adults with LD face educational and employment challenges. Little is known about their skills in digital literacy and how they use those skills at work or at home. The study's objective was to investigate digital literacy…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Learning Disabilities, Adults, Computer Use
Patterson, Margaret Becker – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2023
Adults with learning disabilities (LD) face educational and employment challenges and may also have other disabilities and health conditions. Little is known about these adults' numeracy skills and how they use numeracy at work or home. The article's objective was to investigate numeracy skills and skill use for U.S. adults with LD. The author…
Descriptors: Adults, Learning Disabilities, Numeracy, Mathematics Skills
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
Kaul, Corina R. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Quantitative literacy or numeracy skills are increasingly important at every level in a knowledge-based society. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between numeracy achievement, environmental and intrapersonal characteristics. Although the sample for this study included 5,862 U.S. adults (aged 16-65) from the Program…
Descriptors: Adults, Numeracy, Mathematics Achievement, Individual Characteristics
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
