Literacy for the Twenty-First Century Research, Policy, Practices, and the National Adult Literacy Survey

Subjects:

• Education » Adult/Continuing Education
• Education » Educational Foundations

Reviews:

• Educational and psychological researchers interested in measuring and understanding cognitive performance will find pertinent topics in Literacy for the Twenty-First Century: Research, Policy, Practices, and the National Adult Literacy.
  —Contemporary Psychology APA Review of Books
• This book is valuable for the detailed analyses presented and is an excellent resource on a crucial problem in the education system. No reassurance is given that the 21st century will see a significant improvement in adult literacy proficiency. The challenge will continue. What emerges from these provocative chapters is a rallying call "to really move on the problems of literacy with something more than token efforts". Researchers, public education officials, administrators and all educators involved in the advancement of basic adult literacy will glean much information from the studies presented here. In both general and academic libraries, the book would be useful as a reference tool. Libraries in any learning establishment with distance programs and special libraries such as those incorporations and institutes that execute literacy training programs for their employees would also find this book an excellent addition to their collection.
  —Education Libraries

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Paul Simon
• Issues in Adult Literacy
• Introduction: Adult Literacy Research and the National Adult Literacy Survey by M Cecil Smith and Stephen Reder
• Literacy in America: A Brief Overview of the NALS by Irwin S. Kirsch
• Adult Education and Literacy Public Policy: What It Is and How It Is Shaped by Alice Johnson and Andrew Hartman
• Dimensionality and Construct Validity of the NALS Assessment by Stephen Reder
• The Contexts of Adult Literacy
• Work, School, and Literacy by Jeremy D. Finn and Susan B. Gerber
• Adults' Reading Practices and Their Associations with Literacy Proficiencies by M Cecil Smith and Janet K. Sheehan
• Literacy Gender Gaps: Evidence from the NALS by Lynn Friedman and Ernest Deavenport
• Literacy Habits and Political Participation by Richard L. Venezky and David Kaplan
• Community College Literacy: Is the Middle Right? by Joseph Howard and Wayne S. Obetz
• Literacy Selection and Literacy Development: Structural Equation Models of the Reciprocal Effects of Education and Literacy by Stephen Reder
• Literacy Proficiency among Adults with Self-Reported Learning Disabilities by Susan A. Vogel and Stephen Reder
• Broader Perspectives in Adult Literacy
• Family Literacy and Adult Education: Project FLAME by Flora V. Rodríguez-Brown and Maureen A. Meehan
• Adult Literacy and Health Care by Joanne R. Nurss
• Index