Occupations and the printed word
Subtitle: a workbook.
Contributors: ETS Policy Information Center.
Publisher: ETS Policy Information Center, Educational Testing Service
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Workplace literacy -- United States.; Functional literacy -- United States.
Notes: Cover title.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Becoming literate about literacy / Paul E. Barton; value: Print use profiles / Judith Shaul Norback; value: Literacy levels for 90 occupations / Paul E. Barton; value: Reading and writing skill needs in 22 industries / Joan Wills; value: Elements of job literacy (the Norback job literacy structure) / Judith Shaul Norback; value: Different approaches to establishing levels, scales and equivalencies / Judith Shaul Norback; value: Workplace competencies: the need to improve literacy and employment readiness / Paul E. Barton and Irwin S. Kirsch; value: Setting performance standards: content, goals, and individual differences / Bert F. Green; value: Literacy: economic key for the new millenium / Richard J. Coley.