Assessing the Complexity of Literacy Tasks
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Exercise 3 - Answers

  1. The requested information is a location (2). The respondent has to compare the location with one of four situations in order to correctly report the location. This task requires a match on the date: ‘1 year ago’ and one or two phrases: same address; different address/ same city; different city; different country.

    On the type of match for document processing, this is a cycle task (2); two phrases to search on (1); one item response (0); literal match (0); no inference for requested information (0); total (3) Plausible distractors for the given information (same/different) in a different ‘node than the correct response. (2)

    Those people checking items three and four have to enter an address or a country in response to entry labels. This is a literal match on the label, a level 1 task. The instructions to the left of the item indicate that for many people, the metropolitan area is a plausible distractor for the more restricted area of ‘town’ or ‘municipality.’

Type
Document

Level
2

ToI
2

ToM
3

PoD
2

  1. If the task is to make a match on ‘different/same city’ and ‘different/ same address, then the full phrase should be bolded. As it is now, the modifiers different and same are emphasized and not the ‘content’ words city and address.

    The bolding in the text should emphasize the words that the formfiller will need to match in order to make the right choice. Notice that the complete phrases inside Canada and outside Canada have been emphasized, not just the words in and outside.

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