This article delineates specific issues relating to health literacy for Indigenous Australians. Drawing on the extensive experience of the authors' work with Yolnu people (of north-east Arnhem Land) and using one model for health literacy described in the international literature, various components of health literacy are explored, including fundamental literacy, scientific literacy, community ...

The home literacy environment (HLE) predicts language and reading development in typically developing children; relatively little is known about its association with literacy development in children at family-risk of dyslexia. We assessed the HLE at age 4 years, precursor literacy skills at age 5, and literacy outcomes at age 6, in a sample of children at family-risk of dyslexia (n = 116) and c...

The research and best practices in information literacy instruction indicate that instruction is more effective when embedded , integrated, and assessed within the context of the course curriculum. This pedagogical approach to library instruction requires close collaboration with teaching faculty, and it is these collab-orative methods of information literacy assessment that Thomas P. Mackey an...

The origins of conventional literacy skills are evident in early childhood development. Emergent literacy skills, as measured in preschool and kindergarten, are strong predictors of later literacy achievement. Current educational research and policy (e.g., No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, PL 107-110, 115 Stat. 1425, 2001) emphasize assessment of preschool children to inform identification and ...

BACKGROUND Refugees have poorer health compared to indigenous populations, which may be explained by lower health literacy, i.e. not being able to access, understand, appraise or apply health information. This study aims to determine levels of functional and comprehensive health literacy, and factors associated with inadequate health literacy, in refugees coming to Sweden. METHOD A cross-sect...

Abstract For pre-service teacher education, it would be helpful to know how difficult certain aspects of language testing and assessment are for students. Such information could serve different pedagogical purposes including program design lesson sequencing. This paper, situated in the context education at University Vienna, Austria, presents an approach developing literacy (LAL) which takes ac...

In this literature review, I analyze the features and impacts of 14 programs which promoted teachers’ language assessment literacy. used content analysis to build a coding scheme with data-driven concept-driven categories synthesize then trends in research studies. Regarding core features, findings suggest that were geared towards practical tasks teachers theory critically. Also, studies show e...