LITERACY: "I know my A-B-C's and my numerals! And I can read and write them!"
ILLITERACY: "I don't know my A-B-C's and numerals."
FORMALIC (IL)LITERACY
LITERACY: Proficient.
ILLITERACY: Incompetent.
SEMANTIC (IL)LITERACY
LITERACY: "I can use my A-B-C's and numerals to read and write them -- as words and numbers, too!"
ILLITERACY: "I can read and write my A-B-C's and numerals. But I don't understand words and numbers."
PRAGMATIC (IL)LITERACY
LITERACY: "I know how what I read affects me!"
ILLITERACY: "I wish I knew how what I read affects me!"
What has PRAGMATIC LITERACY/ILLITERACY to do with self-esteem?
TRANSACTIC (IL)LITERACY
LITERACY: Understands how literature relates to other sign-users.
ILLITERACY: Understand how literature relates to self but not other sign users.
What has TRANSACTIC LITERACY/ILLITERACY to do with getting along with others?
ONTIC-EPISTEMIC-CONSENSIC (IL)LITERACY
LITERACY: Knows enough of ONTOLOGY (whatis real) and EPSITOMEOLGY (HOW WE KNOW) to negotiate
consensus with others.(
ILLITERACY: Does not know enough about ONTOLOGY and EPISTEMOLOGY to negotiate consensus.
What has ONTIC-EPITEMIC-CONSENIC LITERACY/ILLITERACY to do with democracy?
SCIENCE-CONSENSIC (IL)LITERACY
LITERACY: Knows enough science to negotiate consensus with others by explanation.
ILLITERACY: Cannot do this.
What has PREDICTIC LITERACY/ILLITERACY to do with SCIENCE?
I CHALLENGE you to help alleviate the ILLITERACY in our society -- we are all ILLITERATE
IN SOME KIND AND DEGREE! -- by DEVELOPING THESE TESTING PROCEDURES, with their NECESSAY
STATISTICAL COORDINATES!
