PRESENTATIONS:
1. Dr. Larry Mikulecky:
"The National Assessment of Adult
Literacy"
2. Carrie Chang:
"The effect of prompt on EFL college
students' use of mapping strategy and recall of expository text"
3. Karl Uhrig:
"Learning Strategies, EAP, and Academic
Literacy"
The National Assessment of Adult
Literacy:
How Evidence-Based Performance Levels are Determined
Dr. Larry Mikulecky
Professor in Language Education
The National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) is the single
largest
assessment of adult literacy in the United States. This
assessment is
administered approximately once a decade. In 2003, it was
administered
in nearly 20,000 representative house-holds using simulated
real-world
literacy tasks from previous assessments as well as several new
approaches. In response to concerns about the number of
"illiterate"
adults reported by the press in previous assessments, the
National
Center on Educational Statistics commissioned the National
Academy of
Sciences to do a two-year study making recommendations for
evidence-based performance levels and cut-scores for reporting
results
of the new National Assessment of Adult Literacy. This
presentation
grows from my work with the National Academies of Science over
the past
two years and describes the new NAAL and the process used by the
Committee on Performance Levels in Adult Literacy of the
National
Academies of Science in making its recommendations for
evidence-based
performance levels.
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The effect of prompt on EFL college
students' use of mapping strategy
and recall of expository text
Carrie Chang
Ph.D. candidate in Language Education
The effect of prompt on trained EFL participants' use of
instructed
strategy, mapping to highlight the rhetorical structure of
English
texts, and recall performance was examined. The fact that the
prompted
and unprompted groups did not differ in recalls may be
interpreted as an
outcome of low-quality maps produced by the prompted group and
employment of instructional techniques (identifying organization
using
signals and/or locating main ideas) by the unprompted group.
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Learning Strategies, EAP, and Academic
Literacy: Two Case Studies
Karl Uhrig
Ph.D. candidate in Language Education
The research study discussed in this presentation is an
investigation of
the strategies that two international students use to read and
study for
their courses in the Law school and MBA program.
Karl Uhrig is a Doctoral Candidate and associate instructor in
Language
Education teaching Foreign language and ESL teaching methods,
and
content area literacy methods.
