Daniel A. Wagner
Who's a Literate? Assessmen t Issues in a Global Perspective
Philadelphia University|University of Pennsylvania
demographic economic changes around world linkage literacy development made literacy critical issue especially developing countries uncertainty nature extent literacy necessitated taking new look literacy assessment policymakers hampered little data also failure capture varying types levels literacy society dichotomies like literateilliterate inappropriate conceptualising problem limit potential effective decisionmaking paper analyses problems determining reliable valid criteria literacy way problem whos literate resolved serious policy implications