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Muth, Bill – Journal of Correctional Education, 2017
This study examines an assessment strategy used with incarcerated literacy learners. The strategy employed a traditional set of reading tests as well as open-ended interviews. Two stances--increasingly reconciled in the reading community--framed this assessment: (a) a post-positivist stance that promotes a normed, component-level assessment of…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Literacy Education
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Muth, Bill; Sturtevant, Elizabeth; Pannozzo, Gina – Journal of Correctional Education, 2017
This is Part II of a two-part report on an assessment strategy used with incarcerated literacy learners. As described in Part I, the strategy employed a traditional set of reading tests as well as open-ended interviews. Two stances--increasingly reconciled in the reading community--framed this assessment: (a) a post-positivist stance that promotes…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Literacy Education
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Muth, Bill – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2011
This study addresses the age-old problem of integrating personal and disciplinary purposes for learning. Two groups of educators participated in online professional development in which each participant assessed an adult literacy learner. The assignment required participants to synthesize assessment data representing social-humanist and cognitive…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Adult Literacy, Humanism, Faculty Development