Literacy Skill Measure

A Literacy Skill Measure is a composite cognitive skill measure that combines reading skill and writing still (to solve read tasks and write tasks).

• Context:
  • It can range from being a No Literacy Skill Level to Low Literacy Skill Level to Average Literacy Skill Level to High Literacy Skill Level.
  • It can be attained by a Literate Agent, such as a literate person.
• Example(s):
  • Poetry Writing.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Numeracy Skill Level.
  • a Problem-Solving Skill Level.
• See: White Collar Job, Reading (Process), Writing, Visual Literacy, Body Language, Autism, Written Language.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/literacy Retrieved:2014-9-12.
  • Literacy is the ability to read and write. The inability to do so is called illiteracy or analphabetism. Visual literacy also includes the ability to understand visual forms of communication such as body language, pictures, maps, and video. Evolving definitions of literacy often include all the symbol systems relevant to a particular community. Literacy encompasses a complex set of abilities to understand and use the dominant symbol systems of a culture for personal and community development. In a technological society, the concept of literacy is expanding to include the media and electronic text, in addition to alphabetic and number systems. These abilities vary in different social and cultural contexts according to need, demand and education. The primary sense of literacy still represents the lifelong, intellectual process of gaining meaning from a critical interpretation of the written or printed text. The key to all literacy is reading development, a progression of skills that begins with the ability to understand spoken words and decode written words, and culminates in the deep understanding of text. Reading development involves a range of complex language underpinnings including awareness of speech sounds (phonology), spelling patterns (orthography), word meaning (semantics), grammar (syntax) and patterns of word formation (morphology), all of which provide a necessary platform for reading fluency and comprehension. Once these skills are acquired, the reader can attain full language literacy, which includes the abilities to approach printed material with critical analysis, inference and synthesis; to write with accuracy and coherence; and to use information and insights from text as the basis for informed decisions and creative thought. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) defines literacy as the "ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts. Literacy involves a continuum of learning in enabling individuals to achieve their goals, to develop their knowledge and potential, and to participate fully in their community and wider society".

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