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?
CONSENSIC (IL)LITERACY
LITERACY:
ILLITERACY:
What has CONSENIC LITERACY/ILLITERACY to do with democracy?
CONSENSIC (IL)LITERACY
LITERACY:
ILLITERACY:
What has PREDICTIC LITERACY/ILLITERACY to do with SCIENCE?
Failure at any of these levels is ASTRATEGY.
I CHALLENGE you to help alleviate the ILLITERACY and ASTRATEGY in our society -- we are all
ILLITERATE AND ASTRATEGIC IN SOME KIND AND DEGREE! -- by DEVELOPING THESE TESTING PROCEDURES,
with their NECESSAY STATISTICAL COORDINATES!
