or over a century we have been striving to reach the goal of universal literacy. Although more children can read and write than ever before, there is growing concern that we are no longer making progress. Worse, there is widespread alarm that we are losing ground. A recent survey measuring international literacy shows that although the United States can claim a large number of adults (19 percen...

BACKGROUND The concept of physical literacy has received increased research and international attention recently. Where intervention programs and empirical research are gaining momentum, their operationalizations differ significantly. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to inform practice in the measure/assessment of physical literacy via a systematic review of research that has assesse...

Introduction. Information literacy research is characterised by a multitude of interests, research approaches and theoretical starting-points. Challenges lie in the relevance of research to professional fields where information literacy is a concern, and the need to build a strong theoretical base for the research area. We aim to lay a foundation for a discussion on how researchers may approach...

The current research is a survey of media literacy status of students in the Information Society in North Khorasan. The theories have been used here are from cultivation, gratifications and knowledge gap to clarify the state of media literacy. This research has been done by survey research method and questionnaire technique was done on 317 students in North Khorasan Universities. The sampling m...

In this paper we discuss how literacy has been positioned within the senior secondary curriculum and how different views of literacy are situated in the curriculum through disciplinary and institutional practices. We discuss a research project where we have drawn on three definitions of literacy – a print-oriented, language oriented or semiotic view – to conduct an linguistic analysis of syllab...

effective clinical care requires nurses to obtain the capability of putting the research findings into application. during the recent years, evidence-based nursing (ebn) has proved itself as a way for health care and therapy based on new findings being used in clinical care practices. however, studies show that nurses have problem in evidence-based practice application the most of which reveals...

University students in a Public Relations program were struggling to connect the scholarly literature with their professional practice. A collaboration between a librarian and an instructor in the program led to the development of a class on reading scholarly articles within a research methods course. To better understand the student experience, and the possible impact of that class, the collab...

BACKGROUND Providing insight into the developmental processes involved in building interventions is an important way to ensure methodological transparency and inform future research efforts. The objective of this study was to describe the development of a web portal designed to improve health literacy skills among the public. METHODS The web portal was tailored to address three key barriers t...