A literacy test assesses a person's literacy skills: their ability to read and write. Literacy tests have been administered by various governments, particularly...

Adult literacy in the United States is assessed through national and international studies conducted by various government agencies and private research...

Literacy is the ability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of "literacy" as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period...

Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT; French: test provincial de compétences linguistiques or TPCL) is a compulsory standardized test for secondary school...

disfranchise African-American and poor white voters through poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses and other restrictions, applied in a discriminatory...

Financial literacy is the possession of skills, knowledge, and behaviors that allow an individual to make informed decisions regarding money. Financial...

The Test of Economic Literacy or TEL is a standardized test of economics nationally norm-referenced in the United States for use in upper-grade levels...

Literacy in India is a key for social-economic progress. The 2011 census, indicated a 2001–2011 literacy growth of 9.2%, which is slower than the growth...

Cleveland vetoed that bill in 1897. President William Taft also vetoed a literacy test in 1913. Again in 1915, President Woodrow Wilson vetoed such a bill...

various voting restrictions, including literacy tests, poll taxes, property-ownership requirements, moral character tests, requirements that voter registration...

AI literacy or artificial intelligence literacy, is the ability to understand, use, monitor, and critically reflect on AI applications. The term usually...

registration that required voters to pay poll taxes and pass a literacy test. The literacy test was subjectively applied by white administrators, and the two...

a more lenient literacy test. In 1970, the Alaska Legislature ratified a constitutional amendment against state voter literacy tests. The Voting Rights...

voters and many Poor Whites being disenfranchised by poll taxes and literacy tests, among other barriers to voting, from which white male voters were exempted...

literacy test for ages 16 and above. The literacy test required one to have basic reading comprehension in any language. The modern day literacy test...

adult literacy rate, defined as literacy in those aged 15 and above, was measured at 97% in 2020 by the World Bank. Youth literacy, defined as literacy in...

favorite plan was the literacy test to exclude workers who could not read or write their own foreign language. Congress passed literacy tests, but presidents—responding...

poor whites by requirements for payment of a poll tax and passing a literacy test and comprehension of the constitution. Subjective application of the...

literacy requirement can be met through passing the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test with a score of 75.0% or above. If one fails the Literacy Test...

number of Southern U.S. states, which created new requirements for literacy tests, payment of poll taxes and residency and property restrictions to register...

constitution of 1895 instituted a poll tax and also required voters to pass a literacy test. These provisions were used to effectively deny the vote to blacks....

25 (Fall 2009). "Cultural Literacy Tests - Challenge Yourself With Our Free Online Cultural Literacy Tests". The Literacy Company. Archived from the...

a United States Act that aimed to restrict immigration by imposing literacy tests on immigrants, creating new categories of inadmissible persons, and...

Court decision that found certain grandfather clause exemptions to literacy tests for voting rights to be unconstitutional. Though these grandfather clauses...

definitions of health literacy, in part because health literacy involves both the context (or setting) in which health literacy demands are made (e.g...

1983 Debra P. v. Turlington case that fought against Florida's State Literacy Test, which affected mostly poor and people of color. In 1989, he established...

and apply simple numerical concepts; it is the numerical counterpart of literacy. The charity National Numeracy states: "Numeracy means understanding how...

the 1924 Immigration Act. Nativists and labor unions also argued for literacy tests, arguing that it would stop illiterate immigrants from Southern or Eastern...

elementary school passed the literacy test, while several college-educated African-Americans were failed. Literacy tests were prevalent outside the South...

Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) to assess Grade 10 students' skills in reading and writing. Successful completion of the test is one of 32 requirements...