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ACT WorkKeys exams are the foundation of the ACT National Career Readiness System, a job skills credentialing system. People can earn an ACT National Career Readiness Certificate by taking three ACT WorkKeys exams: Applied Math, Graphic Literacy and Workplace Documents.
ACT Online Prep [27] provides learning content to help students prepare to take the ACT. The program includes lessons covering all four ACT subject tests (English, math, reading, and science), and two prompts for the optional writing test. Students can also take a full-length practice test, which will provide a predicted ACT score.
The Graph Literacy Scale [3] consists of 13 items and measures three abilities related to graph comprehension (see [11]) (1) the ability to read the data, that is, to find specific information in the graph; (2) the ability to read between the data, that is, to find relationships in the data as shown on the graph; and (3) the ability to read beyond the data, or make inferences and predictions ...
In 1989, there was a call for new curriculum in social studies, which was uniquely suited to bringing visual information to educational programs by introducing map reading skills, charts and graphs for analyzing data, primary source visuals from the period ephemera, and paintings, sculpture, architecture, objects of daily use, and other ...
Susan B. Neuman is an educator, researcher, and education policy-maker in early childhood and literacy development. In 2013, she became Professor of Early Childhood and Literacy Education, and Chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
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 ...
Reading with Pictures: Comics that Make Kids Smarter! (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2014) Gorman, Michele. Getting Graphic!: Comics for Kids. (Linworth Publishing, 2007) Hart, Melissa. Using Graphic Novels in the Classroom: Grades 4-8 (Teacher Created Resources, 2010) McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. (Harper Paperbacks, 1994)
Instructional design (ID), also known as instructional systems design and originally known as instructional systems development (ISD), is the practice of systematically designing, developing and delivering instructional materials and experiences, both digital and physical, in a consistent and reliable fashion toward an efficient, effective, appealing, engaging and inspiring acquisition of ...