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- Title
Project REALISTIC: Determination of adult Functional literacy skill levels.
- Authors
Sticht, Thomas G.; Caylor, John S.; Kern, Richard P.; Fox, Lynn C.
- Abstract
DESCRIBES RESEARCH on Project REALISTIC: a project to determine functional literacy levels for selected military jobs having civilian counterparts: Cooks, Vehicle Repairmen, Supply Clerks, and Armor Crewmen. Results of on-the-job interviews are presented which indicate how lack of reading skill may affect the extent to which men will seek job-related information. Relationships between reading ability and performance on adult, job-related reading task tests are described. Extensive data are presented which indicate relationships of reading, listening, and arithmetic skill to three indices of job proficiency for nearly 1600 men: performance on Job-Knowledge (multiple-choice) tests, performance on Job-Sample tests (‘hands-on’ tests in which each of the 1600 men were individually tested for 4-5 hours in a simulated job-situation, i.e., cooks cooked, repairmen repaired a vehicle, etc.) and Supervisor Ratings. Implications of the results for the establishment of functional literacy levels for adult basic literacy training are discussed.
- Subjects
LITERACY; EDUCATION; FUNCTIONAL literacy; MILITARY personnel; OCCUPATIONS; WORK; LIFE skills; READING ability testing; READING
- Publication
Reading Research Quarterly, 1972, Vol 7, Issue 3, p424
- ISSN
0034-0553
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/746993