• DOI:10.1023/A:1003926406978
Corpus ID: 142861368

Functional literacy of Young Guyanese Adults

@article{Jennings2000FunctionalLO,
  title={Functional literacy of Young Guyanese Adults},
  author={Zellyne Jennings},
  journal={International Review of Education},
  year={2000},
  volume={46},
  pages={93-116}
}

• Zellyne Jennings
• Published 2000
• Psychology
• International Review of Education

Functional literacy is interpreted as the ability of the individual to apply skills in reading, writing, calculation and basic problem-solving in those activities in which literacy is required for effective functioning in his/her own group and community. The paper describes the rationale, development and administration of the test used for measuring levels (high, moderate, low) of achievement in functional literacy in three domains (document, prose and quantitative). An assumption of the study… Expand