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Other tasks in this level ask the reader to locate specific elements in a document that contains a variety of information. In one task, for example, respondents were given a form providing details about a meeting and asked to indicate the date and time of the meeting, which were stated in the form. The difficulty values associated with these tasks were 187 and 180, respectively. The necessary information was referred to only once in the document. Document Level 2 Scale range: 226 to 275 Tasks in this level are more varied than those in Level 1. Some require the reader to match a single piece of information; however, several distractors may be present, or the match may require low-level inferences. Tasks in this level may also ask the reader to cycle through information in a document or to integrate information from various parts of a document. Average difficulty value of tasks in this level: 249 Percentage of adults performing in this level: 28% Some tasks in Level 2 ask readers to match two pieces of information in the text. For example, one task with a difficulty value of 275 directs the respondent to look at a pay stub and to write “the gross pay for this year to date.” To perform the task successfully, respondents must match both “gross pay” and “year to date” correctly. If readers fail to match on both features, they are likely to indicate an incorrect amount. 1234567890123456789012 1234567890123456789012 1234567890123456789012 What is the gross pay for this year to date? [insert payroll stub ART here] 1234567890123456789012 1234567890123456789012 1234567890123456789012 Reduced from original copy. Section III ......87
88 ......Section III A second question based on this document — What is the current net pay? — was also expected to require readers to make a two-feature match. Accordingly, the difficulty values of the two items were expected to be similar. The task anchored at about the 224 point on the scale, however, and an analysis of the pay stub reveals why its difficulty was lower than that of the previous task. To succeed on the second task, the reader only needs to match on the feature “net pay.” Since the term appears only once on the pay stub and there is only one number in the column, this task requires only a one-feature match and receives a difficulty value that lies within the Level 1 range on the document scale. Tasks in Level 2 may also require the reader to integrate information from different parts of the document by looking for similarities or differences. For example, a task with a difficulty value of 260 asks respondents to study a line graph showing a company’s seasonal sales over a three-year period, then predict the level of sales for the following year, based on the seasonal trends shown in the graph. Sales (in thousands of units) 80 – 70 – 60 – 50 – 40 – 30 – 20 – 10 – 1234567890123456789012 1234567890123456789012 1234567890123456789012 You are a marketing manager for a small manufacturing firm. This graph shows your company’s sales over the last three years. Given the seasonal pattern shown on the graph, predict the sales for Spring 1985 (in thousands) by putting an “x” on the graph. Spring – 1982 1983 1984 1985 Summer – Fall – [insert line graph ART here] Winter – Spring – Summer – Fall – Winter – 1234567890123456789012 1234567890123456789012 1234567890123456789012 Spring – Summer – Fall – Winter – Spring – Reduced from original copy.
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ADULT LITERACY in America A First L
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U.S. Department of Education Richar
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iv ......Contents Section II: The C
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vi ......Contents Figures and Table
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viii ......Contents Table 3.1: Perc
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Our thanks go to all those who carr
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xii ......Preface the last decade
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xiv ......Preface During the first
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adults received proficiency scores
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• The literacy proficiencies of y
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• Adults in the lowest level on e
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Historians remind us that during th
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xxii ......Executive Summary
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2 ......Introduction The plan for d
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4 ......Introduction embedded in pr
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6 ......Introduction oversampled to
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8 ......Introduction Further inform
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0 225 275 325 375 500 Source: U.S.
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About This Report This report is wr
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14 ......Introduction
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16 ......Section I are more challen
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NALS Percentages of Adults with Sel
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NALS Percentages of Adults Who Repo
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22 ......Section I Twelve percent o
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NALS Average Literacy Proficiencies
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Percentage in Level Percentage in L
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Results by Parents’ Level of Educ
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Results by Age 30 ......Section I T
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NALS Average Years of Schooling, by
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34 ......Section I When one compare
Page 61 and 62: NALS PROSE Average Proficiency Aver
Page 63 and 64: Age and Racial/Ethnic Differences 3
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Page 69 and 70: Percentage in Level Percentage in L
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Page 73 and 74: NALS Percentages of Adults Born in
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Page 77 and 78: 52 ......Section I A strong relatio
Page 79 and 80: NALS Percentages of Adults Who Vote
Page 81 and 82: Aspects of Newspaper Reading 56 ...
Page 83 and 84: NALS Among Adults Who Read the News
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Page 87 and 88: NALS Level 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 3 1
Page 89 and 90: NALS Average Literacy Proficiencies
Page 91 and 92: NALS Median Weekly Wages, by Litera
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Page 97 and 98: NALS 72 ......Section III The respo
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Page 101 and 102: 76 ......Section III Prose Level 2
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RACE/ETHNICITY TABLE 1.10 Average P
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CENSUS REGION TABLE 1.11 Average Pr
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DISABILITIES Physical, Mental, Heal
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