Funkcionalna pismenost polaznika osnovnog obrazovanja odraslih od trećeg do šestog obrazovnog razdoblja

According to the statistical data, in year 2001 in Croatia 2,88% of inhabitants have not get any basic education and 16,76% have not finished the basic education (primary school). Above this we have to add that 47,06% of inhabitants have finished only secondary education. This is to conclude that inhabitants have very low level of the functional literacy. In this research functional literacy is tested according to the UNESCO standards. International Adult Literacy Survey was adopted for this purpose. Adults in Primary adult education from 5th till 8th grade were tested. According to the IALS, adults in primary education were tested in prose, documentary and numeracy literacy graded in levels from 1 (por literacy) to 5 (expert literacy). The tasks were taken from everyday life different charts, symbols, simple calculation, and text from ads, newspaper or instructions for different products. The results show that the functional literacy is at the level 1 or 2 that indicates very poor level of Literacy. These results are comparable with the results from other researches which show us that 70% of total population of the each state is functionally illiterate (Slovenia has conducted research in 1998 and the results for entire population were from 65-77% illiterate on level 1 or 2). However, we have to take into consideration that this research is preliminary one because of the fact that this test is used for the first time and that tested population is a part of the entire society with one similarity - all of them have not finished primary education.