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CCHP Final Exam
T/F the NAAL tasks represented a range of literary activities that adults will likely
face in everyday life?
R
-T
HE
How were the health tasks for the 2003 NAAL similar/diffrent?
IG
They were made to fit into one of the prose, document or quantitative scale
measures
GH
Difference because of their health content
IN
What is prose, document and quantitative in the NAAL?
Y
Prose-measured by knowledge and skills needed to search, comprehending and
L
use information from texts that were organized in sentence paragraphs
F
Document literacy scale-measures knowledge and skills needed to search,
comprehend, and use information from non continuous texts in various formats
Quantitative scale-skills needed to perform computation using numbers
embedded in printed materials
, 2
What domains of health were the NAAL health tasks distributed across?
R
clinical, prevention, and navigation of health care system
HE
Who recommended new literacy levels be established for the 2003 assessment
G
instead of the same reporting levels used for the 1992 NAAL?
I
The National Research Council's Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA)
H
Committee on Performance Levels for Adult Literacy
NG
Who decided to report the 4 levels of literacy for the NAAL? What are they?
I
US Department of education
Y
Below Basic, Basic, Intermediate, and Proficient
FL
T/F the BOTA Committee recommended performance levels for the health scale in
the NAAL?
F-they only recommended literacy scale
, 3
In the NAAL how were the cut points for the performance levels on the health
scale set in comparison to the other scale (prose, document, quantitative)?
They were set so they would match-
ER
What did the majority of adults score on the NAAL?
H
Intermediate health literacy (53%)
G
Additional 12% were proficient
22% had basic
HI
G
14% below basic
IN
Y
In gender who had higher health literacy?
L
Women
F
16% men below basic, only 12% of women
What is low health literacy associated with?
-Poor communication b/w provider and Pt
, 4
-Poor health outcomes-increased hospitalizations, less frequent screening, high
rates of disease/mortality
Who took the NAAL?
ER
H
Adults ages 16 years and older in households and prisons
IG
T/F Health literacy was a new component of the 2003 National Assessment of
H
Adult Literacy (NAAL)?
G
True
IN
What does the NAAL do?
Y
Assesses the English literacy of adults
FL
How is the NAAL different from indirect literary measures?
Indirect uses self reports and other subjective measures, the NAAL uses tasks
representing a range of literacy activites that adults are likley to face in their daily
life
CCHP Final Exam
T/F the NAAL tasks represented a range of literary activities that adults will likely
face in everyday life?
R
-T
HE
How were the health tasks for the 2003 NAAL similar/diffrent?
IG
They were made to fit into one of the prose, document or quantitative scale
measures
GH
Difference because of their health content
IN
What is prose, document and quantitative in the NAAL?
Y
Prose-measured by knowledge and skills needed to search, comprehending and
L
use information from texts that were organized in sentence paragraphs
F
Document literacy scale-measures knowledge and skills needed to search,
comprehend, and use information from non continuous texts in various formats
Quantitative scale-skills needed to perform computation using numbers
embedded in printed materials
, 2
What domains of health were the NAAL health tasks distributed across?
R
clinical, prevention, and navigation of health care system
HE
Who recommended new literacy levels be established for the 2003 assessment
G
instead of the same reporting levels used for the 1992 NAAL?
I
The National Research Council's Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA)
H
Committee on Performance Levels for Adult Literacy
NG
Who decided to report the 4 levels of literacy for the NAAL? What are they?
I
US Department of education
Y
Below Basic, Basic, Intermediate, and Proficient
FL
T/F the BOTA Committee recommended performance levels for the health scale in
the NAAL?
F-they only recommended literacy scale
, 3
In the NAAL how were the cut points for the performance levels on the health
scale set in comparison to the other scale (prose, document, quantitative)?
They were set so they would match-
ER
What did the majority of adults score on the NAAL?
H
Intermediate health literacy (53%)
G
Additional 12% were proficient
22% had basic
HI
G
14% below basic
IN
Y
In gender who had higher health literacy?
L
Women
F
16% men below basic, only 12% of women
What is low health literacy associated with?
-Poor communication b/w provider and Pt
, 4
-Poor health outcomes-increased hospitalizations, less frequent screening, high
rates of disease/mortality
Who took the NAAL?
ER
H
Adults ages 16 years and older in households and prisons
IG
T/F Health literacy was a new component of the 2003 National Assessment of
H
Adult Literacy (NAAL)?
G
True
IN
What does the NAAL do?
Y
Assesses the English literacy of adults
FL
How is the NAAL different from indirect literary measures?
Indirect uses self reports and other subjective measures, the NAAL uses tasks
representing a range of literacy activites that adults are likley to face in their daily
life
