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Literacy, Skills, and Welfare: Effects of Participation in Adult Literacy Programs [PDF]
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011 AbstractThis paper examines the effect of adult literacy program participation on household consumption in Ghana. The adult literacy programs in Ghana are of special interest because they are more comprehensive than standard literacy programs and incorporate many additional topics.
Niels-Hugo Blunch, Claus C. Pörtner
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Early literacy skills are related to many developmental areas of children such as language development and motor development. The development of children's early literacy skills affects their future development of literacy. Therefore, teachers should promote children's early literacy skills.
Adalet Biltekin +1 more
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Early literacy skills are related to many developmental areas of children such as language development and motor development. The development of children's early literacy skills affects their future development of literacy. Therefore, teachers should promote children's early literacy skills.
Adalet Biltekin +1 more
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Introducing Computer Literacy Skills for Physicians
Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 1992Computers are integral to medical practice, education, and research. While medical students learn computer skills during their training, many practicing physicians do not have the same computer experience. To familiarize this group with the exciting developments in medical informatics, the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library and Department of Computer ...
B, Collins +4 more
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Literacy and Numeracy Skills and Anticoagulation Control
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 2004The ability to use printed material to function in society (literacy) and to handle basic numerical concepts (numeracy) may have implications in patients' ability to follow dosing schedules. We examined literacy and numeracy skills among patients on warfarin and explored their association with anticoagulation control.Patients older than 50 years ...
Carlos A, Estrada +4 more
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Teaching information literacy skills: an evaluation
Nurse Education Today, 2000This paper describes an evaluation of a curriculum-integrated information literacy programme in an undergraduate nursing course. The aim of the programme was to provide students with an awareness of the discipline's literature and the skills to locate and retrieve the literature.
Wallace, Margaret C +2 more
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Reception class predictors of literacy skills
British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005Background. In the last decade, there has been a growing interest, both in the UK and abroad, in developing early screening tests for dyslexia that can be used with very young children. In addition to measures of literacy achievement, such screening tests typically aim to identify underlying difficulties, such ...
Jennifer, Simpson, John, Everatt
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Asthma Numeracy Skill and Health Literacy
Journal of Asthma, 2006To assess understanding of numerical concepts in asthma self-management instructions, a 4-item Asthma Numeracy Questionnaire (ANQ) was developed and read to 73 adults with persistent asthma. Participants completed the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (STOFHLA), 12(16%) answered all 4 numeracy items correctly; 6(8%) answered none ...
Andrea J, Apter +7 more
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Reading and Writing, 2010
The present study investigated relative contributions of initial status and growth rates of emergent literacy skills (i.e., phonological awareness, letter-name knowledge, vocabulary, and rapid serial naming) to initial status and growth rates of conventional literacy skills (i.e., word reading, pseudoword reading, and spelling) for young Korean ...
Young-Suk Kim, Yaacov Petscher
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The present study investigated relative contributions of initial status and growth rates of emergent literacy skills (i.e., phonological awareness, letter-name knowledge, vocabulary, and rapid serial naming) to initial status and growth rates of conventional literacy skills (i.e., word reading, pseudoword reading, and spelling) for young Korean ...
Young-Suk Kim, Yaacov Petscher
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Emergent Literacy and Early Writing Skills
The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2012In the present study, the authors aimed to assess the short- and long-term predictive power of the various components of an emergent literacy model on early writing abilities in a language with a mainly transparent orthography (Italian). Emergent literacy skills were assessed in 72 children (M age = 5.05 years, SD = +/- .03) who were followed ...
PINTO, GIULIANA +3 more
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Literacy interest, home literacy environment and emergent literacy skills in preschoolers
Journal of Research in Reading, 2018PurposeChildren's literacy interest is positively associated with their literacy attainments. However, interest in literacy activities, particularly for younger children, is likely influenced by their home literacy environment (HLE), which may also be bound up with socio‐economic factors, such as parental education levels.MethodIn the present study, we
Julia M. Carroll +3 more
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