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| Older and younger : the basic skills of different age groups | | Corporate Author | Basic Skills Agency (ALBSU - Adult Literacy and Basic Skills Unit) |
| Publisher | ALBSU - The Basic Skills Agency, London, 1995 |
| Pages | 36 pp |
| Source | The Basic Skills Agency, Commonwealth House, 1-19 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1NU. |
| Keywords | Learning capacity ; Educational status [elderly] ; Reading ; Age group distribution statistics ; Performance ; Evaluation ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | The survey on which this report is based was undertaken by Gallup for ALBSU, its objective being to compare the basic skills competence of six separate generational groups aged 22-24, 32-34, 42-44, 52-54, 62-64 and 72-74. The generation reporting least difficulty with reading, writing/spelling and/or numeracy were 72-74 year olds. However, actual difficulties with basic skills, as measured by assessment tasks, were greater, on average, for the older generations surveyed (aged 52 and older) than for younger generations. The 72-74 year olds performed worst in both the literacy and the numeracy assessment tasks. Whilst many in the older age groups performed very well, it is clear that older people perform much worse than younger people, and that competence with basic skills tend to decrease as people pass middle age. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980217222 P |
| Classmark | DE: F:V: HKM: S6: 5H: 4C: 3F |
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