Computer literacy and information retrieval techniques are both skills that are required to undertake further educational study effectively. In the summer of 2000, a group of post-registered nurses and midwives on undergraduate courses in one university department, completed a self-assessment questionnaire to examine their knowledge and competence of computer and information literacy. This pape...

As many as 90 million Americans have difficulty understanding and acting on health information. This health literacy epidemic is increasingly recognized as a problem that influences health care quality and cost. Yet many physicians do not recognize the problem or lack the skills and confidence to approach the subject with patients. In this issue of Family Medicine, several articles address heal...

OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence of low health literacy among adolescents, young adults, and child caregivers in the United States, the readability of common child-health information, and the relationship between literacy and child health. DATA SOURCES MedLine, Educational Resources Information Center, National Library of Medicine, PsychInfo, Harvard Health Literacy Bibliography, and peer-...

Purpose: Information and communications technology (ICT) literacy skills reflect 21st Century requirements for researching and communicating information in digital environments. An interactive problem-based, scenario-based, web-based assessment tool, iSkills TM , has been developed through a broad-based effort to establish standards for performance and certification of ICT literacy proficiencie...

In this paper we reflect on our experience of developing mathematical literacy material for the Further Education and Training (FET) band in South African schools, adult learners, university students and for participants in a youth development project. We use this experience to highlight some problems and concerns about the South African Mathematical Literacy curriculum for learners in the FET ...