After defining literacy as functional literacy, the author discusses sampling techniques for determining the educational level of large groups: the literacy rate approach, the behavioral objectives approach, and the normative approach. He concludes that test development is the most difficult aspect of such assessments. (AG)

Project REALISTIC, sponsored by the Department of the Army under contract with the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO), was designed to determine functional literacy levels for selected military jobs having civilian counterparts. (MM)

A keynote address given at the First General Session of the Twenty-seventh Biennial Council of Pi Lambda Theta at the University of Arizona on August 15, 1971, in which the author talks about the future and about revolution, which seems to be part of the future. (Editor/DR)

Argues that a successful adult basic education program should recognize the differences between younger students and adults, provide a setting in which adults' dignity is not threatened, carefully diagnose each adult's needs, and prescribe and implement a program to meet those needs. (FL)

Compared self-administered and examiner-administered depression adjective check lists. Half of each form was administered in standard manner and half was read by examiners to psychiatric inpatients. Analysis revealed no significant effects for vocabulary, sex, or method of administration. Results support examiner-administered method in cases of…

Discusses illiteracy in Canada and describes the steps that have been taken to improve this problem at the national, provincial, and local levels. (CHC)

Discusses the relationship between literacy and occupation. Notes that the illiterate are often self-employed farm and home workers. Suggests a number of areas in which research would be valuable. (JOW)

Addresses the literacy problem on American labor pool training, and suggests ways to combat the problem. These include: evaluating written/spoken materials for literacy levels, screening prospective employees through reading comprehension tests, and expanding the role of experimental learning (both simulation and reality training). (Author/JEG)

Discusses some areas which require the immediate attention of research in adult education, including policymaking and program planning, teaching methods, training needs of staff, evaluation, attitudes, motivation, production of teaching material, administration and organization, adult literacy, and functional literacy. (TA)

From interviews with 18 low-literate prisoners, the following observations were made: few could function effectively without assistance, which was most likely to come from fellow prisoners; functioning depended on type and importance of literacy tasks to the individual and individual abilities and characteristics. The complexity within this small…

There is a marked shift of emphasis from the traditional 3-R's concept of literacy to the new 3-F's Program of functional literacy, food production, and family planning. These experiences evidently establish that "built-in" motivation (economic, social, cultural, or religious) is perhaps the only answer to any literacy training program.…

In the last decade many people have questioned the long-range effectiveness of literacy education in America. The response to this discussion about the "literacy crisis" has been the growth of three commonly held generalizations: (1) that in previous eras, Americans enjoyed remarkable levels of literacy; (2) that the role of print has been…

This document, written in the first person, describes the history and feelings of a woman who was functionally illiterate as an adult but who, having learned to read, is now a student at Rancho Santiago Community College District in Orange, California. This "open letter" urges teachers to support and encourage students with similar problems,…