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Literacy for the twenty-first century : research, policy, practices, and the National Adult Literacy Survey

Author: M Cecil Smith
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: M Cecil Smith
ISBN: 0275957861 9780275957865
OCLC Number: 38216131
Description: ix, 212 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Adult literacy research and the National Adult Literacy Survey / M Cecil Smith and Stephen Reder -- Literacy in America : a brief overview of the NALS / Irwin S. Kirsch -- Adult education and literacy public policy : what it is and how it is shaped / Alice Johnson and Andrew Hartman -- Dimensionality and construct validity of the NALS assessment / Stephen Reder -- Work, school, and literacy / Jeremy D. Finn and Susan B. Gerber -- Adults' reading practices and their associations with literacy proficiencies / M Cecil Smith and Janet K. Sheehan -- Literacy gender gaps : evidence from the National Adult Literacy Survey / Lynn Friedman and Ernest Davenport -- Literacy habits and political participation / Richard L. Venezky and David Kaplan -- Community college literacy : is the middle right? / Joseph Howard and Wayne S. Obetz -- Literacy selection and literacy development : structural equation models of the reciprocal effects of education and literacy / Stephen Reder -- Literacy proficiency among adults with self-reported learning disabilities / Susan A. Vogel and Stephen Reder -- Family literacy and adult education : Project FLAME / Flora V. Rodríguez-Brown and Maureen A. Meehan -- Adult literacy and health care / Joanne R. Nurss.
Responsibility: edited by M. Cecil Smith ; foreword by Paul Simon.

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