Using a multidimensional assessment of health literacy (the Cancer Message Literacy Test-Listening, the Cancer Message Literacy Test-Reading, and the Lipkus Numeracy Scale), the authors assessed a stratified random sample of 1013 insured adults (40-70 years of age). The authors explored whether low health literacy across all 3 domains (n =111) was associated with sets of variables likely to aff...

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.

The virtual university environment provides librarians with new opportunities to contribute to the educational process. Building on the success of team-teaching a traditional liberal arts core course with composition and communications faculty, librarians and a communications professor worked together to integrate the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Compe...

Canada has an essential skills problem, and the latest international benchmark survey demonstrates this reality. Recently, the OECD released the results from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) survey. The survey is a large scale assessment of essential skills of adults aged 16-65 in 24 countries and sub-regions1. The release marks an almost 10-year wait...

Many studies focus on the use of different assessment tools within information literacy instruction; however, there are very few that discuss how preand post-tests can be utilized to gauge student learning, and even fewer of those published deal with preand post-test assessment within the one-shot paradigm. This study explores the effectiveness of using nonlinguistic representations—kinesthetic...