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Chapter 4
Prose Literacy, Document Literacy and Quantitive Literacy: Understanding What Was Measured in IALS and ALL

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Abstract

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Introduction

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Overview of the framework
Organizing the domain
Identifying task characteristics
Identifying and operationalizing the variables
Context/Content
Materials/Texts
Continuous texts
Noncontinuous texts
Processes/Strategies
Type of match
Type of information requested
Plausibility of distractors
Type of calculation
Operation specificity
Validating the variables
Characterizing prose literacy tasks
Evaluating the contribution of the variables to task difficulty
Characterizing document literacy tasks
Evaluating the contribution of the variables to task difficulty
Characterizing quantitative literacy tasks
Evaluating the contribution of the variables to task difficulty
Building an interpretative scheme
Conclusion

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References

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Notes

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Appendix A  Coding rules for the process variables
Appendix B  Data from prose, document, and quantitative items

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