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  • The Relationship of the Component Skills of Reading to IALS Performance: Tipping Points and Five Classes of Adult Literacy Learners (2007): http://www.ncsall.net/index.php?id=29#29
    • by John Strucker, Kentaro Yamamoto, and Irwin Kirsch
    • As its title indicates, this study’s aim was to understand the relationship of the component skills of reading, such as word recognition, vocabulary, and spelling, to large-scale measures of literacy, such as the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) (Kirsch, Jungleblut, Jenkins, & Kolstad, 1993) and the closely related International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) (Tuijnman, 2001).
  • Adult Reading Components Study (2003): http://www.ncsall.net/?id=23#arcs
    • John Strucker, Principal Investigator
    • The Adult Reading Components Study offers a portrait of adults enrolled in adult basic education and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) classes by using clusters based on measures of reading components and a means to assess the literacy skills of the beginning-level learners.
  • Affecting Change in the Literacy Practice of Adult Learners: Impact of Two Dimensions of Instruction (2000):http://www.ncsall.net/?id=652#purcell-gates Artrawick.2.28.07
    • by Victoria Purcell-Gates, Sophie Degener, Erik Jacobson, and Marta Soler
    • The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between two dimensions of instruction (authenticity of instructional texts/activities and degree of student/teacher collaboration) and change in adult learners' literacy practices.
    • A peer-reviewed article about this study ("Impact of Authentic Literacy Instruction on Adult Literacy Practices") is published in the Reading Research Quarterly (2002), 37[1], 70-92.

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