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1. T/F the NAAL tasks represented a range of literary activities that adults will
likely face in everyday life?: - T
2. How were the health tasks for the 2003 NAAL similar/diffrent?: They were
made to fit into one of the prose, document or quantitative scale measures
Difference because of their health content
3. What is prose, document and quantitative in the NAAL?: Prose-measured by
knowledge and skills needed to search, comprehending and use information from
texts that were organized in sentence paragraphs
Document literacy scale-measures knowledge and skills needed to search, compre-
hend, and use information from non continuous texts in various formats
Quantitative scale-skills needed to perform computation using numbers embedded
in printed materials
4. What domains of health were the NAAL health tasks distributed across?: -
clinical, prevention, and navigation of health care system
5. Who recommended new literacy levels be established for the 2003 assess-
ment instead of the same reporting levels used for the 1992 NAAL?: The
National Research Council's Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA) Committee
on Performance Levels for Adult Literacy
6. Who decided to report the 4 levels of literacy for the NAAL? What are
they?: US Department of education
Below Basic, Basic, Intermediate, and Proficient
7. T/F the BOTA Committee recommended performance levels for the health
scale in the NAAL?: F-they only recommended literacy scale
8. 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-
9. What did the majority of adults score on the NAAL?: Intermediate health
literacy (53%)
Additional 12% were proficient
22% had basic
14% below basic
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10. In gender who had higher health literacy?: Women
16% men below basic, only 12% of women
11. What is low health literacy associated with?: -Poor communication b/w
provider and Pt
-Poor health outcomes-increased hospitalizations, less frequent screening, high
rates of disease/mortality
12. Who took the NAAL?: Adults ages 16 years and older in households and
prisons
13. T/F Health literacy was a new component of the 2003 National Assessment
of Adult Literacy (NAAL)?: True
14. What does the NAAL do?: Assesses the English literacy of adults
15. 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
16. Describe the NAAL test
Who?
What was in it?
How were questions writtes?
Etc: -Adults ages 16+ in households and prisions
-LIteracy tasks from actutal texts and documents in orignal format or reporduced in
the test booklet
-? appeared before the material to encourage respondents to read with purpose
-Respondents could correctly answer much of the test by skimming for info
-The questions were NOT multiple choice, they had to write answers to questions
17. T/F the NAAL used texts/documents that weren't from real life-not in
orginal format: Faulse-tasks were drawn from actual texts and documents
18. T/F the NAAL was multiple choice?: F-answers were written
19. T/F the question appeared before the material? Why?: T-wanted respondents
to read with purpose
20. What is significant about the NAAL definiton of literacy>: Acknowldges that
literacy goes beyond simply sounding out, recgonizing or understanding text
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Central feature if that literacy is related to achiveing objective, for adults they often
read with purpose
21. What scale on the NAAL looked at the respondents ability to search,
comprehend, and use information from continuous texts? What are some ex-
amples?: Prose literacy-editoritals, news stories, brochures, instructional material
22. What scale on the NAAL looked at the respondents ability to read editoti-
rals, news stories, brochures, and instructional material? How can it be broken
down further?: Prose literacty-broken down into expostiory, narrative, procedural
and presuasive
23. What scale on the NAAL looked at the respondents abilityu to search, com-
prehend and use information from non continous texts in various formats?
What are some examples?: Document literacy
Job application, payroll forms, transportastion schedules, maps, and food/drug
labels
24. What scale on the NAAL looked at the respondents ability to read job appli-
cations, payroll forms, transportation schedules, maps, and labels?: Document
literacy
25. What scale on the NAAL looked at the respondents to identify and perform
computations, either alone or sequentially, using numbers embedded in print-
ed material? What are some examples?: Quantitative
Balancing a checkbook, figuring out a tip, completing an order form, determining
amount of interest on a loan from an advertisement
26. In addition to the NAAL literacy scale what was the breakdown of the health
literacy scale added to the 2003 exam?: 12 prose, 12 document and 4 quantitative
(28 total)
27. How were material selected for the health literacy part of the NAAL? Who
reccomended it?: Materials were representative of real-world healthcare informa-
tion including insurance info, meidicne directions, and preventative care info
The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion within the US Department
of health and Human Services suggested material and questions be based on input
from other HHS agencies/stakeholders
28. What were the three domains of the NAAL health literacy scale? How many
questions each?: Clinical domain-3
-activities associated with HC provider/Pt interaction, clinical encounters, diagnosis
and treatment of illness
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Prevention-14
-activities in maintaining and improving health
-Disease prevention, intervening early
self-care/self management
Navigation of HC system-11
-activities related to understanding how health care system works and individual
rights and responsibilities
29. What domain of the NAAL would be filling out Pt information forms, under-
standing dosing instructions, and following health care providers recommen-
dation for a diagnostic test?: Clinical domain
30. What domain would following guidelines for age-appropriate
preventive health services, identifying signs and
symptoms of health problems that should be
addressed with a health professional, and understanding
how eating and exercise habits decrease
risks for developing serious illness.: Prevntion domain
31. What domain of the NAAL would understanding what a health insurance
plan
will and will not pay for, determining eligibility
for public insurance or assistance programs,
and being able to give informed consent for a
health care service: Navigation of health care system domain
32. T/F the health literacy scale in NAAL did NOT include tasks that did the
fit the definition of prose, document, or quantitative literacy, even if they were
consistent with the definition of health literacy used by Healthy people 2010: T
33. Did the NAAL health tasks require knoweldge of specalized heath terms?-
: NO
34. Did the NAAL health literacy scale measure ability to obtain information
from non-print sources?: No however did ask about it in background questionnaire
35. What did the background questionnaire for the NAAL include?: data about
various demographics and background characteristics
-sections about health status, preventative health practices, health insurance cover-
age and sources of information about health issues
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1. T/F the NAAL tasks represented a range of literary activities that adults will
likely face in everyday life?: - T
2. How were the health tasks for the 2003 NAAL similar/diffrent?: They were
made to fit into one of the prose, document or quantitative scale measures
Difference because of their health content
3. What is prose, document and quantitative in the NAAL?: Prose-measured by
knowledge and skills needed to search, comprehending and use information from
texts that were organized in sentence paragraphs
Document literacy scale-measures knowledge and skills needed to search, compre-
hend, and use information from non continuous texts in various formats
Quantitative scale-skills needed to perform computation using numbers embedded
in printed materials
4. What domains of health were the NAAL health tasks distributed across?: -
clinical, prevention, and navigation of health care system
5. Who recommended new literacy levels be established for the 2003 assess-
ment instead of the same reporting levels used for the 1992 NAAL?: The
National Research Council's Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA) Committee
on Performance Levels for Adult Literacy
6. Who decided to report the 4 levels of literacy for the NAAL? What are
they?: US Department of education
Below Basic, Basic, Intermediate, and Proficient
7. T/F the BOTA Committee recommended performance levels for the health
scale in the NAAL?: F-they only recommended literacy scale
8. 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-
9. What did the majority of adults score on the NAAL?: Intermediate health
literacy (53%)
Additional 12% were proficient
22% had basic
14% below basic
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10. In gender who had higher health literacy?: Women
16% men below basic, only 12% of women
11. What is low health literacy associated with?: -Poor communication b/w
provider and Pt
-Poor health outcomes-increased hospitalizations, less frequent screening, high
rates of disease/mortality
12. Who took the NAAL?: Adults ages 16 years and older in households and
prisons
13. T/F Health literacy was a new component of the 2003 National Assessment
of Adult Literacy (NAAL)?: True
14. What does the NAAL do?: Assesses the English literacy of adults
15. 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
16. Describe the NAAL test
Who?
What was in it?
How were questions writtes?
Etc: -Adults ages 16+ in households and prisions
-LIteracy tasks from actutal texts and documents in orignal format or reporduced in
the test booklet
-? appeared before the material to encourage respondents to read with purpose
-Respondents could correctly answer much of the test by skimming for info
-The questions were NOT multiple choice, they had to write answers to questions
17. T/F the NAAL used texts/documents that weren't from real life-not in
orginal format: Faulse-tasks were drawn from actual texts and documents
18. T/F the NAAL was multiple choice?: F-answers were written
19. T/F the question appeared before the material? Why?: T-wanted respondents
to read with purpose
20. What is significant about the NAAL definiton of literacy>: Acknowldges that
literacy goes beyond simply sounding out, recgonizing or understanding text
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Central feature if that literacy is related to achiveing objective, for adults they often
read with purpose
21. What scale on the NAAL looked at the respondents ability to search,
comprehend, and use information from continuous texts? What are some ex-
amples?: Prose literacy-editoritals, news stories, brochures, instructional material
22. What scale on the NAAL looked at the respondents ability to read editoti-
rals, news stories, brochures, and instructional material? How can it be broken
down further?: Prose literacty-broken down into expostiory, narrative, procedural
and presuasive
23. What scale on the NAAL looked at the respondents abilityu to search, com-
prehend and use information from non continous texts in various formats?
What are some examples?: Document literacy
Job application, payroll forms, transportastion schedules, maps, and food/drug
labels
24. What scale on the NAAL looked at the respondents ability to read job appli-
cations, payroll forms, transportation schedules, maps, and labels?: Document
literacy
25. What scale on the NAAL looked at the respondents to identify and perform
computations, either alone or sequentially, using numbers embedded in print-
ed material? What are some examples?: Quantitative
Balancing a checkbook, figuring out a tip, completing an order form, determining
amount of interest on a loan from an advertisement
26. In addition to the NAAL literacy scale what was the breakdown of the health
literacy scale added to the 2003 exam?: 12 prose, 12 document and 4 quantitative
(28 total)
27. How were material selected for the health literacy part of the NAAL? Who
reccomended it?: Materials were representative of real-world healthcare informa-
tion including insurance info, meidicne directions, and preventative care info
The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion within the US Department
of health and Human Services suggested material and questions be based on input
from other HHS agencies/stakeholders
28. What were the three domains of the NAAL health literacy scale? How many
questions each?: Clinical domain-3
-activities associated with HC provider/Pt interaction, clinical encounters, diagnosis
and treatment of illness
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Prevention-14
-activities in maintaining and improving health
-Disease prevention, intervening early
self-care/self management
Navigation of HC system-11
-activities related to understanding how health care system works and individual
rights and responsibilities
29. What domain of the NAAL would be filling out Pt information forms, under-
standing dosing instructions, and following health care providers recommen-
dation for a diagnostic test?: Clinical domain
30. What domain would following guidelines for age-appropriate
preventive health services, identifying signs and
symptoms of health problems that should be
addressed with a health professional, and understanding
how eating and exercise habits decrease
risks for developing serious illness.: Prevntion domain
31. What domain of the NAAL would understanding what a health insurance
plan
will and will not pay for, determining eligibility
for public insurance or assistance programs,
and being able to give informed consent for a
health care service: Navigation of health care system domain
32. T/F the health literacy scale in NAAL did NOT include tasks that did the
fit the definition of prose, document, or quantitative literacy, even if they were
consistent with the definition of health literacy used by Healthy people 2010: T
33. Did the NAAL health tasks require knoweldge of specalized heath terms?-
: NO
34. Did the NAAL health literacy scale measure ability to obtain information
from non-print sources?: No however did ask about it in background questionnaire
35. What did the background questionnaire for the NAAL include?: data about
various demographics and background characteristics
-sections about health status, preventative health practices, health insurance cover-
age and sources of information about health issues
