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Upadhyay, Samrat; Schilb, John – College English, 2012
This article presents an interview with the noted Nepali American fiction writer Samrat Upadhyay. Samrat Upadhyay's fiction is mostly about his native country of Nepal, but he writes mainly for an Anglo-American audience. In the interview, Upadhyay not only discusses his own work, but he also examines samples of prose by other Asian or Asian…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Audiences, Foreign Countries, Asian Americans
Ngwudike, Benjamin C. – Online Submission, 2008
The 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL): Performance of African Americans in a National Context Sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) the 2003 NAAL was America's most comprehensive assessment of adult literacy since the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS). NAAL was a nationally representative…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Inferences, Prose, African Americans
Yen, Shu-Jing; Dayton, C. Mitchell – 1999
The latent structure of the reading test of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) Reading Literacy study was investigated. The use of latent class modeling for investigating the measurement properties of a large-scale reading assessment database is demonstrated. The study focused on response data from…
Descriptors: Databases, Expository Writing, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Inge, M. Thomas – Hispania, 1970
Descriptors: Biographies, Letters (Correspondence), North Americans, Philosophy
Huvos, Kornel – French Rev, 1969
Descriptors: American Culture, Analytical Criticism, Attitudes, French Literature
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2005
The Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL) is a large-scale co-operative effort undertaken by governments, national statistics agencies, research institutions and multi-lateral agencies. The development and management of the study were co-ordinated by Statistics Canada and the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in collaboration with the…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Familiarity, Numeracy, Demography