Measuring Adult Literacy and Life Skills: New Framework for Assessment

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Chapter 8
The ALL Practical Cognition Framework

1.

1.1

Academic versus practical cognition

1.1.1 Research on practical problem-solving skill

1.1.2

The fun of growing older: Do age-related patterns in practical cognition resemble those in conventional cognition?

1.2

What develops in practical cognition?

1.2.1 Context of practical problem solving

1.2.2 Content of practical problem solving

1.2.3 Goals of practical problem solving

1.2.4 Practical problem-solving strategies

1.2.5 Problem interpretation (Definition)

2.

Approaches to studying practical cognition

2.1

Social cognition

2.1.1 Cognitive-verbal measures of social cognition

2.1.2 Behavioral approaches to measuring social cognition

2.1.3 Nonverbal approaches to measuring social cognition

2.2

Emotional cognition

2.3

Comprehensive frameworks of skills

2.3.1 Greenspan and driscoll's model of personal competence

2.3.2 The living systems framework

2.4

Sternberg's theory of successful cognition

2.4.1 Sternberg triarchic abilities test

2.4.2 Measures of practical cognition

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