Development of an Online Reading Literacy Assessment on Life Information after Mild Stroke

Back ground and purpose: Reading is the critical foundation of learning. Leaning to read is important for a citizen to participate and development in modern society with internet heavily used. However, it might not be an easy task for aged and cognitive impaired minority groups learn to adapt. The basic demographics of adult literacy will help to construct the amelioration program to promote learning to read. This study aimed to develop the Online Reading Literacy Assessment on Life Information (ORLALI). Methods: According to design of PISA, Retrieving information, interpretation and reflection/evaluation are designed into the ORLALI with 3 domains, 16 items with total score of 18. Pretest will be executed in 100 adults with contents validation and norm establishment. 500 adults will be recruited to validate the psychometric characteristics. 100 stroke patients with mild severity and 100 adults from community learning programs will be matched to explore the difference and the impact of cognitive impairment on literacy. Results: ORLALI will be well designed with good reliability and validity. Adult literacy will be less intact in mild stroke patients with negative correlation to cognitive impairment.