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APPENDIX B: Examination of the Dimensionality of NALS
APPENDIX B: Examination of the Dimensionality of NALS
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. NALS included some questions/tasks that had been developed for the 1985 Young Adult Literacy Survey (n = 85)
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EXAMINATION OF THE DIMENSIONALITY OF NALS 215 TABLE B-1 Distribution of NALS Tasks Across the Three Literacy Areas Task Scale Prose Doc. Quant.
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216 APPENDIX B TABLE B-3 LISREL Results for a Three-Factor Model When the Six Core Tasks Were Included in the Analyses Intercorrelations Booklet RMSEA* Prose/Doc.
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EXAMINATION OF THE DIMENSIONALITY OF NALS 217 quantitative was more highly associated with outcome y than with outcome x? If so, there would be empirical support for use of each separate dimension to guide adult education policy and the activities of adult educators.
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218 APPENDIX B The prose, document, and quantitative scores used were the first set of plausible values in the public release of the data (http://www.nces.ed.gov/ naal/analysis/resources.asp)
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219 Quant.
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The effect of document literacy is much less than that of prose or quantitative literacy and the effect of prose literacy is slightly larger than that of quantitative literacy. Model fit deteriorates markedly, however, if the effect of either document or quantitative literacy is ignored.
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