Abstract
The purpose of this study was to describe the reading activities of 26 adult Black high school equivalency students. The data were obtained through a questionnaire focusing on the subjects' previous day's activities. The procedures replicated those employed in the Educational Testing Ser vice's Study on Reading Activities of American Adults.
The four questions asked about Black adult education students' reading activities were: What are the reading activities? How important is the reading? What are the reading difficulties? What other reading difficulties do students encounter?
In addition to school related reading, the subjects engaged in reading an average of 82 minutes per day. Utilitarian activities, the Bible, and church related reading rated as more important than recreational reading. The newspaper, the Bible, and various types of forms and applications were fre quently noted as difficult.
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