For instance, in the first of these alternative models, female literacy was exchanged with clean water (ie, female literacy was excluded from the model, whereas clean water was included).
And the Comic Book Project, a program run out of Teachers College at Columbia University that has children create their own comic strips as an "alternative pathway to literacy," is catching on.
Two years ago, we started to explore alternative ways to support literacy improvement.
Specifically in our study, it stands to question if alternative tests of economic literacy are even more suited to assess domain-specific prior knowledge of commercial trainees than the two subdimensions of the WBT ("Basics" and "Microeconomics") that we have employed.
Connectivism is a new learning theory, which used for designing the world's first Massive Online Open Course (MOOC), and become accepted to be an alternative way to design information literacy (IL) course with information-rich environment.
The TOSLS is also informative in revealing student challenges and alternative conceptions in using scientific literacy skills.
As part of an international movement to promote greater recognition of the social and economic costs of depression [ 3, 4], we were keen to develop this alternative approach to rating depression literacy.
The extent to which these explanations are valid would require further investigation, and the results would inform clinicians and healthcare organisations of specific types of patients who are sensitive to health literacy screening and alternative ways of communicating with those patients.
As an alternative to simply identifying levels of literacy with years of schooling, some scholars have distinguished levels of literacy in another way.
Other studies of Hispanics have developed alternatives to written questionnaires when literacy rates are lower, such as those described by Boiko and colleagues [ 42].
Participants in the present study most prominently recommended universal solutions to their problems (simplifying the presentation of information and offering non-stigmatising alternatives to self-completion of literacy tasks to everyone, not just those with low literacy).
