The phrase "assess literacy" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the evaluation or measurement of someone's reading and writing skills.
Example: "Teachers often need to assess literacy levels in their students to tailor their instruction effectively."
Alternatives: "evaluate literacy" or "measure literacy".
All seventeen countries assess literacy and numeracy proficiency.
Meanwhile, it is evident that many items are moderately to very difficult in the fall of preschools, thus limiting their capacity to assess literacy proficiency.
Scientists are partly to blame for that misconception, it adds, because the metrics they typically use to assess literacy "are only weakly correlated" with how people behave.
It says introducing "more challenging GCSEs, which more explicitly assess literacy and numeracy, could improve the relevance of core GCSEs and help increase public confidence in these key subjects".
Our surveyors traveled the country to tally the number of children living in institutions, assess literacy and health, and explore the reasons why children entered institutional care, whether or not they had parents and, if they did, whether their parents lived nearby.
A screening tool was used at recruitment in order to assess literacy skills in potential participants.
We test our system's ability to both improve reading comprehension and aid teachers in accurately assessing literacy by conducting a three-month trial with 56 participating Taiwanese high school students from February to May 2009.
In a statement the Welsh government said: "One of the main aims of the review is to consider whether we have a qualification system that assesses literacy and numeracy skills adequately and prepares young people sufficiently for entry into the workplace or for progression into the next stage of education".
"One of the main aims of the review is to consider whether we have a qualification system that assesses literacy and numeracy skills adequately and prepares young people sufficiently for entry into the workplace or for progression into the next stage of education".
Three parents performed below the 10th centile on the tasks assessing literacy skills alone, and it was not possible to compare group means.
Current measures of health literacy primarily assess print literacy within health contexts.
