Sentence examples for literacy index from inspiring English sources

We use data from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy to identify correlates of reading ability to form a literacy index.

Our literacy index reliably discerns literacy test scores above educational attainment, and the index shows high internal consistency (coefficient alpha = 0.78) and validity.

We use a simulated retirement investing task and a new financial literacy index to evaluate the role of financial literacy in retirement investment decisionmaking in a group of nonexpert participants.

Gallup, a new partner around the Gallup-HOPE FIndexial Literacy Index with the organization I founded, Operation HOPE, recently proved through research that hope was a greater indicator of academic success than GPA and ACT scores, and that while 50% of kids were hopeful, another 50% were not.

Additionally, the r values indicate that approximately 72% of the variation in new TB cases is predicted by HDI levels, which is a composite assessment of standard of living (health index, literacy index, and income index) in a community.

To simplify comparisons between scores on the general health literacy index and its various sub-indices, all scores were transformed to a unified metric with a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 50, where 0 represents the 'least possible' and 50 represents the 'best possible' health literacy score.

As shown in Table 1, the distribution of the health literacy indices for both the total sample and all national samples are unimodal and principally bell-shaped, yet with a consistently negative skew, particularly for Greece and Spain.

Following common practice for health literacy measures, index thresholds were defined and ranges for different levels of health literacy were created.

Prior studies also have reported an association between health literacy and indices of health status, including cognitive function [ 12] and functional status, including ability to perform instrumental activities of daily living [ 9, 13].

BEL, Biological Evolution Literacy; HISG, high index score group; LISG, low index score group, SD, standard deviation.

Rather than literacy rates, the index now measures mean years of schooling, and rather than gross enrollment, it measures expected years of schooling.