By Karen Armstrong
To be had in Canada for the 1st time on account that its preliminary e-book in 1981, this can be acclaimed writer Karen Armstrong's vintage memoir of her lifestyles as a tender girl in a convent -- the precursor to the bestseller The Spiral Staircase.
Through the slender Gate is Karen Armstrong's intimate memoir of lifestyles within a Catholic convent. With honesty and readability, she explains what drove her at age seventeen to dedicate herself to God. Over the subsequent seven years, she endures the problems of convent existence -- the enforced silence, the shortcoming of friendship and relatives, her personal guilt at no longer having the ability to stifle her voracious intelligence -- and unveils the secrets and techniques of spiritual existence in the course of the post--Vatican II years.
Through the slender Gate is a relocating account of a tender woman's look for God and the studies that positioned Karen Armstrong on her option to turning into probably the most fashionable and most dear interpreters of non secular faith.
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The Sample for NALS and NAAL For both assessments, data were collected via a household survey of a stratified random sample of adults age 16 and older. Additional samples were obtained in specific states in order to provide state-level results; this portion of the assessment was referred to as the State Adult Literacy Survey. In 1992, 12 states participated (California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington); in 2003, 6 states participated (Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, and Oklahoma).
In preparation for the release of the 2003 results, the Department of Education decided to focus specific attention on how NAAL results should be reported and interpreted. The department sought advice from the NRC and requested that its Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA) recommend performance levels to use in reporting NAAL results. The Committee on Performance Levels for Adult Literacy was established to provide this advice. The committee included individuals with a broad array of expertise, including adult education, educational measurement and standard setting, English for speakers of other languages, literacy and literacy measurement, psychology, political science, public health, sociology, statistics, and survey methodology.
Individual is able to handle basic reading, writing, and computational tasks related to life roles, such as completing medical forms, order forms, or job applications. • Can read simple charts, graphs, labels, and payroll stubs and simple authentic material if familiar with the topic. , fax machine, computer operation). • The individual can qualify for entrylevel jobs that require following basic written instructions and diagrams with assistance, such as oral clarification. • Can write a short report or message to fellow workers.