We explored whether the effects of a telephone-based osteoarthritis (OA) self-management support intervention differed by race and health literacy. Participants included 515 veterans with hip and/or knee OA. Linear mixed models assessed differential effects of the intervention compared with health education (HE) and usual care (UC) on pain (Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales-2 [AIMS2] and Visu...

Mathematics: algebra of intersecting straight lines; trigonometry of 30-60-90-degree triangles; vector addition. Geology: size, shape and gravity of the Earth; nomenclature of sedimentary rocks. Quantitative literacy: visual display of data; National Assessment of Educational Progress.

In today’s primary classrooms, the definition of “text” has expanded to include multiple modes of representation, with combined elements of print, visual images, and design. Emergent research on literacy highlights the imaginative, interpretive, nonlinear, interactive, dynamic, visual, and mobile features of communication (Coiro, Knobel, Lankshear, & Leu, 2008). Although these interactive featu...

Visual images are increasingly appearing in learning and teaching resources, delivered across a range of media in a variety of formats: digitally in Web-based materials and multimedia as well as in print and as transparencies. The proliferation of image-rich resources is due in part to the wide availability of digital images and access to the technology and graphics software that facilitates th...

The modulatory influence of literacy on the cognitive system of the human brain has been indicated in behavioral, neuroanatomic, and functional neuroimaging studies. In this study we explored the functional consequences of formal education and the acquisition of an alphabetic written language on two- and three-dimensional visual naming. The results show that illiterate subjects perform signific...

A major problem in education and visual information design is that, while tools to measure people’s reading writing ability with texts numbers are ripe, the properly process from data graphics – an that can be called Visual Information Literacy still off radar, even less interest apparently devoted its evaluation. The purpose of this research presenting exploration methods towards measurement e...

ABSTRACT: This study is about the relation among media culture and school territory, problematizing role of teacher in mediation contents mediatically consumed by students. The investigation debates understandings skills that teachers possess to didactics turned Mediatic-Visual Literacy inside their specific contexts. In methodological terms, has a quantitative-qualitative approach, which centr...