organizing category

An organizing category comprises specific examples of information with the same characteristics. For example, in a phone book, all the names are organized into one list or organizing category and labelled ‘subscribers.’ On a medicine bottle, information is organized into categories such as ‘dosage,’ and ‘precautions.’

paradigm (paradigmatic)

An example which serves as a pattern, an exemplar. In the context of complexity analysis, a paradigmatic relationship is one that associates members of a class or category. The relationship between the category ‘fruit’ and the exemplar ‘apple’ would be paradigmatic.
A paradigmatic ‘context’ for a search term replicates the part of speech, gender, number, inflection, and sentence position of the given term in the text being searched. For example, if the question is “What do gophers eat? and the text being searched had a passage reading “Gophers eat grain and grasses” the answer “grains and grasses” is in a paradigmatic context. If the text reads, “Gophers spend much of the day foraging for grains and grasses . . .” the answer is now in a non-paradigmatic context.

prose

In general, continuous passages of text organized into paragraphs. We can contrast prose with documents in which text has been organized into structures such as lists and tables or arranged spatially on maps and drawings. prose literacy The knowledge and skills required to locate, understand and use information from texts such as news stories, magazine articles, operating manuals and regulations. Prose literacy tasks include finding specific facts in operating manuals, reading letters and memos, interpreting regulations, and following written work instructions.

prose literacy

The knowledge and skills required to locate, understand and use information from texts such as news stories, magazine articles, operating manuals and regulations. Prose literacy tasks include finding specific facts in operating manuals, reading letters and memos, interpreting regulations, and following written work instructions.

psychometric

( psycho - mind; metric - measure) Psychometrics is the science of measuring cognitive processes such as reading and reasoning.

quantitative literacy

The knowledge and skills required to apply arithmetic operations, either alone or sequentially, using numbers embedded in printed materials. Quantitative literacy tasks include balancing a checkbook or calculating a discount amount.