Document literacy

Table 2 describes the tasks associated with the various levels of document literacy proficiency.

Table 2. Document literacy levels of difficulty
Level Score Task
1 0 - 225 Enter information from personal knowledge into a document
2 226 - 275 Identify information from different parts of a document
3 276 - 325 Identify multiple pieces of information from two or more documents ignoring tables containing irrelevant information
4 326 - 375 Identify information in documents using multiple-feature matches; provide numerous responses and incorporate conditional information
5 376 - 500 Search through complex text with multiple distractors and use specialized knowledge to make high level text-based inferences

An easy document literacy task with a value of 188 required identifying a percentage of Greek teachers who are women from a chart showing the percentage of women teachers from various countries. The task was rated as easy because the one piece of information requested was stated clearly in the chart.

The most difficult task with a score of 408 required identifying an average advertised price for a radio with the highest performance rating. The person had to match four features, process conditional information and address distractors.