Literacy Tutorial
Self Assessment
This quiz will help you
test your attainment of the tutorial’s objectives. When you have
completed the quiz, please print your certificate.
Are pamphlets always appropriate for patient education?
- yes
- no
Which of the following statements about readability is false?
- Based on the required grade level needed to understand a document
- Measures the structural aspects of the sentence
-
Measures conceptual difficulty and content
Why is assessing literacy levels important?
- Many people in the United States have poor health literacy.
- Low levels of
literacy account for $73 billion in annual health costs.
- Poverty levels affect literacy levels in a community.
- The need for public assistance increases as literacy levels decrease.
- all of the above
What is an essential first step in developing materials that are readable for your target audience?
- Assess who your reader is and determine the primary reading level of the audience
- Develop the document with lots of pictures and graphics
- Plan the content that will be included in your document
Which tool would be appropriate to select to assess the reading level of your target audience?
- Frye
- SMOG
- REALM
- Flesch-Kincaid