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Adult literacy in America : a first look at the results of the National Adult Literacy Survey

Title
Adult literacy in America : a first look at the results of the National Adult Literacy Survey / Irwin S. Kirsch [and others].
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Dept. of Education, [1993]

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Additional Authors
  • Kirsch, Irwin S.
  • United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement.
  • Educational Testing Service.
  • National Center for Education Statistics.
Description
xxi, 150 pages : illustrations; 28 cm
Subject
  • National Adult Literacy Survey
  • National Adult Literacy Survey
  • Adult education > United States
  • Functional literacy > United States
  • Literacy > United States
  • Educational surveys > United States
  • Adult education
  • Educational surveys
  • Functional literacy
  • Literacy
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Statistics
  • Statistics.
  • Statistiques.
Note
  • "September 1993."
  • "Prepared by Educational Testing Service under contract with the National Center for Education Statistics."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The prose, document, and quantitative literacies of America's adults -- The connection between adults' literacy skills and their social and economic characteristics -- Interpreting the literacy scales.
ISBN
  • 0160419298
  • 9780160419294
LCCN
94133275
OCLC
  • ocm28768301
  • 28768301
  • SCSB-1013473
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library