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Understanding Adult Functional Literacy - Connecting Text Features, Task Demands, and Respondent Skills (Hardcover)
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Understanding Adult Functional Literacy - Connecting Text Features, Task Demands, and Respondent Skills (Hardcover)
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"This is a genuinely scholarly work ... It is based on [analysis
of] the most up-to-date quantitative surveys that we have on adult
literacy. These surveys are the gold standard in terms of
documenting adult literacy in the United States ...The author
analyzes these extensive surveys and puts them into a theoretical
context in a way that has not been done before." - Rosemary J.
Park, University of Minnesota "I don't know of any book providing
the same information. There is a shortage of literature in this
area and the book is an excellent contribution." - Dolores Perin,
Teachers College, Columbia University "The contribution of the
theory is important - not only to adult literacy but to our
understanding of the reading process at nearly every level ...
Additionally, the application of multidimensional item response
modeling to the new TTR theory offers a tantalizing view of how the
predictive validity of a theory might be tested and used to provide
practical results." - Larry Mikulecky, Indiana University Very
often, individual differences in literacy performance are
understood exclusively in terms of the characteristics of the
reader. Drawing on a rich array of empirical research, the author
presents a detailed and highly integrative new theory of functional
literacy. The text-task-respondent (TTR) theory of functional
literacy offers improved understanding of how successful
performance on everyday literacy tasks involves a dynamic
relationship among the text, the task, and the reader. This book
will appeal primarily to assessment developers who wish to select
tasks and texts of varying difficulty to yield more precise
estimates of adult literacy; to researchers who study cognitive,
linguistic, and discourse processes; and to teachers who want to
find new ways to increase text comprehension among students,
including English language learners and struggling readers. The
text is appropriate for an advanced course in adult education,
discourse analysis, educational measurement, educational
psychology, literacy, or linguistics - or as a reference work for
those interested in literacy.
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