NAME : Colinares, Juliannah Bien Reege Section: A3 DATE: April 2, 2022

SAS 8 : Literacy in the Adult Client Population (Part 2)

ANSWER RATIONALE

1. A Flesch-Kincaid Scale: measures materials written between the fifth- grade and
the college level.
2. C TOFHLA (Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults): measures health literacy
skills using actual hospital materials; sections on reading comprehension and
numeracy.
3. A Cloze Procedure: Specifically recommended for assessing medical literature with
individuals reading at sixth grade level or above. Every fifth word is systematically
deleted from a portion of a text, and the reader has to fill in the blanks with the
appropriate words.
4. C Listening Test: A three-minute passage, selected from instructional materials
written at approximately the fifth grade level, is read aloud, and then the listener
is asked questions on key points relevant to the content.
5. D Suitability for a given audience depends on all the choices listed.
6. B The Techniques for Writing Effective Health Materials excludes “You can exceed
more than 30 to 40 characters per line”.
7. A eHEALS (eHealth Literacy Scale): determines a patient’s ability to find and
navigate electronic health information.
8. C SAM (Suitability Assessment of Materials): tool to assess the suitability of
instructional materials for a given group of learners.
9. A TRUE. Interest in the literacy problem has escalated tremendously in the last
5-10 years, and recent survey results demonstrate that literacy, numeracy, and
technology problems are still prevalent.
10. D NVS (Newest Vital Sign): identifies those at risk for low health literacy. It is
inexpensive, takes as little as three
minutes to administer.