This paper takes as its starting point an awareness of the diversity of literacy and its assessment in everyday educational and cultural practice; its complexity as a set of specific practices to be acquired; and the necessity faced by literacy educators to crystallise their understanding of their students' diverse literacy achievements into summative judgements such as ratings and scores. Agai...

The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Literacy Achievement of Secondary Students by David P. Jones MA, Marygrove College, 2004 BS, The College of New Jersey, 1992 Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Education Walden University June 2013 Abstract Proficiency in language arts and communication skills is essential t...

Public health nurses (PHNs) are community residents' access points to health information and services in Japan. After the Fukushima nuclear accident, they were challenged to communicate radiation-related health information to best meet community needs. We previously developed and evaluated the outcome of a single-site health literacy training program to augment PHNs' ability to improve communit...

The importance of the preschool period for becoming a skilled reader is highlighted by a significant body of evidence that preschool children's development in the areas of oral language, phonological awareness, and print knowledge is predictive of how well they will learn to read once they are exposed to formal reading instruction in elementary school. Although there are now a number of empiric...

objective: to investigate the self-efficacy status of librarians in ferdowsi university of mashhad and mashhad university of medical sciences and its relationship with their information literacy skills.methodology: eighty people was chosen by nonproportional stratified random sampling as the final sample from the population. assessment tool was self- made questionnaire. the data has been analyz...

This focus of this paper is to present an overview of the current research which examines the language and literacy performance of African American children who speak African American Vernacular English (AAVE), as presented from a deficit versus difference perspective. Language and literacy and assessment and remediation of AAVE speakers are discussed in sections one and two. Section three of t...

SkillSum is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Generation (NLG) system that produces short feedback reports for people who are taking online tests which check their basic literacy and numeracy skills. In this paper, we describe the SkillSum system and application, focusing on three challenges which we believe are important ones for many systems which try to generate feedback r...