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Help Wanted: Research Brief [PDF]
, 2009 This brief provides original research demonstrating the growing gap between the workforce literacy skills of the working-age population and the needs of businesses in Philadelphia. In-depth information is available on: the definitions for prose, document,
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Developing predictive models of health literacy. [PDF]
, 2009 IntroductionLow health literacy (LHL) remains a formidable barrier to improving health care quality and outcomes. Given the lack of precision of single demographic characteristics to predict health literacy, and the administrative burden and inability of
Bird, Chloe E +10 more
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Globalising assessment: an ethnography of literacy assessment, camels and fast food in the Mongolian Gobi [PDF]
, 2014 What happens when standardised literacy assessments travel globally? The paper presents an ethnographic account of adult literacy assessment events in rural Mongolia.
Bernstein B +17 more
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Political Literacy as Information Literacy
Comminfolit, 2009 This paper contends that political literacy and information literacy are compatible concepts that are inextricably linked and should therefore be taught and stressed simultaneously to students in the classroom. Improving the information literacy and political literacy skills of students will allow them to not only perform better academically, but also ...
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The Analysis of Diagnostic Assesment Result in Pisa Mathematical Literacy Based on Students Self-efficacy in Rme Learning [PDF]
, 2017 This research aimed to test RME learning with an effective scientific approach to improving mathematical literacy and self-efficacy, obtaining an overview of the mathematical literacy diagnostic assessment results that has high, medium and low self ...
Fahmi, A. Y. (Ahmad) +3 more
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, 2009 Across Europe and beyond, the promotion of media literacy, for children and adults, has acquired an important public urgency. Traditional literacy is seen to be no longer sufficient for participation in today’s society. Citizens need to be media literate, it is claimed, to enable them to cope more effectively with the flood of information in today’s ...
O'Neill, Brian, Hagen, Ingun
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Designing Information Literacy Instruction for Adult Learners
, 2015 An issue currently facing many academic librarians involves the challenge of designing information literacy instruction for nontraditional students, particularly adult learners.
Rhoden, Laura
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Investment in financial literacy, social security and portfolio choice : [version may 21, 2013] [PDF]
, 2013 We present an intertemporal portfolio choice model where individuals invest in financial literacy, save, allocate their wealth between a safe and a risky asset, and receive a pension when they retire.
Jappelli, Tullio, Padula, Mario
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Personal financial literacy among high school students in New Zealand, Japan and the United States [PDF]
, 2013 Personal financial literacy is becoming increasingly important in the modern world, especially for young people. In this paper we compare financial literacy of high school students in Hamilton, New Zealand, with samples from Japan and the United States ...
Calderwood, Richard John +4 more
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Financial literacy and retirement planning: new evidence from the Rand American Life Panel [PDF]
, 2007 The present paper introduces a new dataset, the Rand American Life Panel (ALP), which offers several appealing features for an analysis of financial literacy and retirement planning.
Lusardi, Annamaria, Mitchell, Olivia S.
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