Reading for Working

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Our research on literacy has produced considerable information about literacy demands of jobs, job proficiency of men of various literacy skill levels, methodologies for estimating literacy demands of jobs, and efforts to modify men and jobs to better match men to jobs. While this research has been reported for public use, the information is presented in technical reports, journal articles, and HumRRO publications of limited distribution. Because many of these varied documents are widely dispersed and hard to obtain, it was deemed desirable to make a summation of this research available in this single volume. Part I reports research to develop general methodologies for estimating functional literacy demands of jobs. Each of four chapters describes an approach to this problem; a fifth chapter presents a general summary and critical discussion of the various methods of estimating reading requirements of jobs used in this research and by others. Part II is concerned with methods of reducing discrepancies between personnel literacy skills and the literacy demands of jobs. The first chapter describes basic research on reducing reading demands of training schools by substituting listening for reading, and comments on preparing job and training aids capable of being more effectively used by less literate personnel. The second chapter describes an extensive R & D effort to design, develop, and implement a job-related literacy training program for the Army - an effort still under way at this writing. While changes undoubtedly will be made to the program as reported, the chapter is offered as an example of one approach to teaching reading "in the content areas" on a large scale. Table of contents: Introduction Part I: Determining Functional Literacy Demands of Jobs * Introduction * Readability of Job Materials * Performing Job Reading Task * Literacy in Relation to Job Knowledge, Job Performance, and Supervisor Ratings * Using Personnel Data Files to Estimate Reading Demands of Jobs * Commentary on Methodologies for Determining Literacy Demands of Jobs Part II: Reducing Discrepancies Between Literacy Skills of Personnel and Literacy Demands of Jobs * Introduction * Methods for Reducing Literacy Demands of Jobs. * Functional Literacy Training: A Case Study Part III: Collected Papers on Functional Literacy * Introduction * Reading and Career Education * A Career-Oriented Literacy Training System for the Armed Services * Needed: A Functional Literacy Curriculum for the Secondary School.