What are the Literacy Components of Job Proficiency? An Objective, Opinionated Commentary

Abstract

The Role of literacy in affecting military efforts to select, assign, train, lead and manage individuals and units has become a prominent issue. My objective in this paper is to identify what I perceive as serious pitfalls in the concept of literacy as presently reflected in applied military research as well as in operational practices. Support for this perspective will be offered based on research literature and findings from my own recently completed research. I will then propose a direction for future research. The goal of this research is to substitute a more diagnostic, functionally-related concept of the individual's job-related knowledge base for the present, relatively uninformative concept of general literacy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADP001411

Entities

People

  • Richard P. Kern

Organizations

  • U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Behavior And Behavior Mechanisms
  • Behavioral Disciplines And Activities
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Data Displays
  • Education
  • Job Training
  • Literacy
  • Literature
  • Materials
  • Military Research
  • Performance Tests
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Students
  • Trainees
  • Training
  • Word Recognition

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