Sentence examples for general literacy from inspiring English sources

General literacy was achieved in Latvia in the 1890s.

By contrast, production of written texts in contemporary society is widespread and indeed depends on broad general literacy, widely distributed printed materials, and mass readership.

He passed the state's required test of general literacy and communication skills as well as a subject-area test in chemistry.

Finally, the documented positive effect of genetic literacy on the acceptance of evolutionary theory has been attributed to a general literacy effect.

As a result, today there is no group of Nahuatl speakers having attained general literacy in Nahuatl; while their literacy rate in Spanish also remains much lower than the national average.

Health and general literacy are significant issues for CCE.

Like PISA, German NA uses continuous and non-continuous texts in order to assess a general, literacy-oriented reading ability.

Currently the general health literacy measuring tools include, Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM) [ 4], Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA), Health Activities Literacy Scale (HALS) and a few others [ 5].

Despite the current research on general health literacy, very few studies have examined oral health literacy.

However, in general, health literacy was more strongly associated with health promoting behaviors, whereas financial literacy was more strongly associated with indices of mental health.

Early tools attracted the same criticisms directed at the general health literacy versions, in that they were largely word recognition tools that did not actually measure oral health literacy per se, rather they provided an approximate measure of reading skills relative to oral health content [ 3, 36].