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[Assessment 524] Assessing On-Line Reading

Marie Cora marie.cora at hotspurpartners.com
Mon Oct 16 12:56:36 EDT 2006


Dear Colleagues,

Last week, David Rosen posted the following set of questions accompanied
by some information on the frequency with which people now read on-line
(see posting "no subject" from Oct. 11; archives:
http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/assessment/2006/date.html)

There have been a number of responses to this from the Technology
Discussion List (http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/Technology) - I
wonder if folks out there have any comments, information, or further
questions regarding this topic?

What are your thoughts?


1. Have you assessed your students' web page reading skills? Has
anyone assessed adult learners' web page reading skills? Is there
such an assessment?
2. What impact do adult literacy programs have on students' access
to or use of computers or the Internet? I have seen an unpublished
study which found they have --- none -- and that makes me wonder
why. Any ideas? Are you aware of any studies of adult literacy
programs' impact on students' access to or use of computers?
3. Are adult literacy programs helping students to use assistive
technology -- for example, (free) text-to-speech web page reader
software that would enable them to join the community of internet
users even if they have difficulty reading text? If not, should this
be a program responsibility?

David J. Rosen
djrosen at comcast.net



Marie Cora
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Coordinator, LINCS Assessment Special Collection
http://literacy.kent.edu/Midwest/assessment/


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