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Article: A Tale of Two Studies.(functional illiteracy measured)
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- Phi Delta Kappan
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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'Lower-Level' Adult Literacy
The following descriptions show what adults scoring at the lowest levels of NALS can do. Some people have taken levels 1 and 2 to indicate "functional illiteracy." This seems unfair, and, given what the people at levels 1 and 2 can do, it is little wonder that few of them report that literacy difficulties cause problems in their lives.
Level 1: Performed simple routine tasks involving brief and uncomplicated texts and documents. For example, they were able to locate the time or place of a meeting on a form and identify a piece of specific information in a brief news article.
Level 2: Located information in texts, ...
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July 26, 2007 ;
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