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  2. Programme for the International Assessment of Adult ...

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    The main aim is to be able to assess the skills of literacy, numeracy and problem solving in technology-rich environments, and use the collected information to help countries develop ways to further improve these skills. The focus is on the working-age population (between the ages of 16 and 65).

  3. Numeracy - Wikipedia

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    The concept of health numeracy is a component of the concept of health literacy. Health numeracy and health literacy can be thought of as the combination of skills needed for understanding risk and making good choices in health-related behavior. Health numeracy requires basic numeracy but also more advanced analytical and statistical skills.

  4. Progress in International Reading Literacy Study - Wikipedia

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    The IEA's Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) [1] is an international study of reading (comprehension) achievement in 9-10 year olds. It has been conducted every five years since 2001 by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA).

  5. Literacy - Wikipedia

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    Literacy is the ability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of "literacy" as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period before 1950, when literacy was understood solely as alphabetical literacy (word and letter recognition); and the period after 1950, when literacy slowly began to be considered as a wider concept and process, including the social and cultural ...

  6. Graphicacy - Wikipedia

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    Separating graphicacy from literacy and numeracy delineates the distinctive and complementary types of contributions that graphics, words, and numbers each make in human communication. The interpretative components of graphicacy skills are relevant in the increasing range of situations where graphics carry the primary responsibility for ...

  7. The three Rs - Wikipedia

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    The skills themselves are alluded to in St. Augustine's Confessions: Latin: ...legere et scribere et numerare discitur 'learning to read, and write, and do arithmetic'. [3]

  8. Curriculum for Excellence - Wikipedia

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    The Benchmarks issued for literacy and numeracy should "be used to support teachers’ professional judgement of achievement of a level". Education Scotland expects that within all other curriculum areas in Curriculum for Excellence , that Benchmarks will be used in order to support teachers and practitioners to "understand standards and ...

  9. Visual literacy in education - Wikipedia

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    Teaching visual literacy in the classroom means many things from film, dance, and mime through the use of diagrams, maps and graphs to children's picture books. Visual texts can be found in books, the internet, environmental signage, TV, tablet devices and touch-screen machines like ATMs.