| FIGURE
73 |
Document Literacy * |
| Source: I. Kirsch and A Jungeblut.
(1986a) Literacy: Profiles of America's Young Adults. Princeton, NJ:
Educational Testing Service, National Assessment of Educational
Progress. (p.20) |
* This item was also used in the 1992 National Adult
Literacy Survey (NALS).
This Document literacy task is at the easy end of the
scale, with a difficulty level of 169, meaning that people must
possess a skill level of 169 to have an 80% probability of being able
to perform the task correctly.
On the Document scale, the YALS report states that,
over all items,
99.7 percent perform at the 150 level or above,
95.5 percent perform at the 200 level or above,
83.8 percent
perform at the 250 level or above,
57.2 percent perform at the
300 level or above,
20.2 percent perform at the 350 level or
above,
8.8 percent perform at the 375 level or above.
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