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Download full textSackville, Patricia – 1994
The validity of the Southam News 1987 survey of literacy in Canada was questioned relative to its content and structure. The survey viewed literacy as a set of complex information processing skills and adopted a hierarchical view of these skills. This hierarchy model set up illiteracy as a deficiency. The Southam study's underlying assumption was…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Construct Validity, Content Validity
