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Download full textPotts, Meta, Ed. – National Institute for Literacy, 2003
"EFF HOT (Highlights on Teaching Topics) Topics" is a publication of the EFF (Equipped for the Future) Center for Training and Technical Assistance. Each issue concentrates on a specific topic, highlighting examples of actual practice and offering strategies and tools for using EFF in the classroom. In this issue, "HOT Topics" focuses on the EFF…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Literacy Education
National Institute for Literacy, 2001
HOT Topics is a new quarterly publication from the Equipped for the Future (EFF) National Center. HOT stands for Highlights On Teaching, and this publication is committed to providing teachers and tutors with tools and ideas for teaching using the EFF Framework and Standards. This first issue of HOT Topics focuses on strategies that use the EFF…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Teaching Methods, Cognitive Processes, Adult Learning
Tracy-Mumford, Fran – Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1999
The year 1998 was one of immense change for adult learning and literacy, as significant new legislation was passed and the field headed more deeply into the mainstream. Along with these developments came greater demands for program accountability, expanded strategic alliances and partnerships, new instructional methodologies, changes in public…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Accountability, Learning Experience, Public Policy
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (NJ1), 2008
There is a strong and growing argument for higher educational attainment in the United States. The jobs that are expected to support the economy in the coming years will depend on a skilled workforce that is able to learn and adapt quickly to new challenges. However, demographic patterns demonstrate that relying on the traditional K-16 pipeline to…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Distance Education, State Action, Educational Attainment
Kegan, Robert; Broderick, Maria; Drago-Severson, Eleanor; Helsing, Deborah; Popp, Nancy; Portnow, Kathryn – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2001
In much research, learners' perspectives tend to be considered in light of a program's expectations or U.S. society's definitions of learner needs, rather than considering how learners would define and make sense of their own experiences, hopes, and needs. In contrast, this study considers learners' meanings as the fundamental starting point for…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Benseman, John; Sutton, Alison; Lander, Josie – Online Submission, 2005
This comprehensive review of the international research literature looks at the research evidence on the effective teaching of literacy, numeracy and second language skills to adults. It contains an extensive discussion of the literature and full references. The purpose of this literature review is to provide a critical evaluation of the available…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Adult Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy
Kegan, Robert; Broderick, Maria; Drago-Severson, Eleanor; Helsing, Deborah; Popp, Nancy; Portnow, Kathryn – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2001
The authors carefully followed for a year or more the inner experiences of learning and change of 41 ABE/ESOL (Adult Basic Education/English for Speakers of Other Languages) learners from all over the world. They were enrolled in three distinct U.S. programs (a community college, a family literacy site, and a workplace site), each oriented to…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Snow, Catherine E.; Strucker, John – Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1999
In the spring of 1998 the National Research Council released a report, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children for Adult Learning and Literacy (PRD). PRD was written with the goal of contributing to the prevention of reading difficulties by documenting the contributions of research to an understanding of reading development and the…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Prevention, Adult Basic Education, Young Children
Kegan, Robert; Broderick, Maria; Drago-Severson, Eleanor; Helsing, Deborah; Popp, Nancy; Portnow, Kathryn – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2001
How do ABE/ESOL (Adult Basic Education/English for Speakers of Other Languages) programs shape adult learners, and how do adult learners, in turn, shape their programs? Beyond the acquisition of important skills (such as greater fluency in the English language) what are the bigger internal meanings for adults of participating in ABE/ESOL…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
