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Download full textIllinois Community College Board, 2021
The mission and vision of adult education is to provide every individual in Illinois access to Adult Education and Literacy services. In Illinois, more than 1.15 million adults have less than 12 grades of formal education, approximately 2.8 million Illinois residents speak a language other than English in their home, and more than 350,944…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Federal Legislation, Planning
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Direct linkKwaw-Mensah, David; Martin, Robert A. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the perceptions that extension educators in the North Central region of the United States hold regarding selected educational strategies pertaining to livestock waste management education. Livestock waste management education has been recognized as one of extension's major initiatives in the…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Extension Agents, Extension Education, Sanitation
Illinois Community College Board, 2018
The mission and vision of adult education is to provide every individual in Illinois access to Adult Education and Literacy services. In Illinois, more than 1.15 million adults have less than 12 grades of formal education, approximately 2.8 million Illinois residents speak a language other than English in their home, and more than 350,944…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Federal Legislation, Planning
Flores, Alina L.; Prue, Christine E.; Panissidi, Paula – Health Education Journal, 2010
Objective: This article presents the results of testing draft folic acid educational materials with key gatekeepers, leading to the development of a Spanish-language print advertisement, poster, and radio public service announcement (PSA) aimed at promoting folic acid consumption among 18- to 25-year-old young Latina adults, as well as a…
Descriptors: Health Education, Health Promotion, Nutrition, Instructional Materials
Fienup, Daniel M.; Critchfield, Thomas S. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2011
College students in a psychology research-methods course learned concepts related to inferential statistics and hypothesis decision making. One group received equivalence-based instruction on conditional discriminations that were expected to promote the emergence of many untaught, academically useful abilities (i.e., stimulus equivalence group). A…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Computer Assisted Instruction, Statistics, Stimuli
Moser, Morgan E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This investigation focused on the different forms of online collaboration used by current novice teachers in rural districts in Illinois. Two main research questions guided this study: 1) How do novice teachers use online collaboration? and 2) How does online collaboration affect their teaching practice? This study consisted of four qualitative…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Collaboration, Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Publishing
Van Laarhoven, Toni; Kraus, Erika; Karpman, Keri; Nizzi, Rosemary; Valentino, Joe – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2010
This study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of video prompting and picture prompting when used as antecedents for teaching daily living skills to two adolescents with autism. Participants were taught two different skills, and the effects of the instructional conditions were compared and evaluated using an adapted alternating-treatments…
Descriptors: Autism, Prompting, Instructional Materials, Daily Living Skills
Mahabir, Indramati Kumar – Online Submission, 2010
The purpose of this study was two-fold. It was first to find out what the educational materials needs were for children living in poverty, and second, to learn of the challenges, obstacles, and strengths by the programs already in place that were supplying educational materials to these children. This study used interviews and surveys as data…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Equal Education, Poverty, Instructional Materials
Bell, Edith E. – Performance Improvement, 2009
The purpose of the patient education system described here was to distribute patient education material to and within medical practices managed by a small medical practice management company. The belief was that patient education opportunities improved health care outcomes and increased patient participation in health care decisions and compliance…
Descriptors: Patient Education, Patients, Performance Technology, Health Education
Kasowitz-Scheer, Abby – Educators' Spotlight Digest, 2009
Many academic libraries have embraced the concept of the information commons or the learning commons. These library spaces consist of collections of tools, services and programs intended to enhance the student learning experience. According to Scott Bennett (2008), an information commons supports learning, while the learning commons…
Descriptors: Institutional Mission, Academic Libraries, Learning Experience, Higher Education
Villano, Matt – Campus Technology, 2009
To say the American economy is in a precarious mode would be the understatement of the century. Banks have foundered, American industry is looking for federal bailouts, and belts are tightening everywhere. Not surprisingly, higher education officials at private institutions are wondering which students will be able to afford ever-escalating…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Income, Educational Finance, Intellectual Property
Wu, Xiuwen; Newman, Mark – Online Submission, 2008
This paper discussed a study involving two groups of teacher candidates' implementations of a visual literacy curriculum in their preclinical field experience. The purpose was to explore whether the curriculum provided a viable way for them to implement Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in teaching their diverse learners, including students with…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Curriculum, Access to Education, History Instruction
Mayall, Hayley J.; Robinson, Rhonda S. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2009
In order to begin to understand the current levels of awareness and understanding of teachers regarding visual literacy resources and tools, a descriptive study was recently undertaken by the authors. Data were gathered through a researchers-generated and pilot-tested web-based survey from 43 in-service teachers from the northern Illinois region.…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Visual Literacy, Teacher Surveys, Computer Software
COHEN, JOZEF; AND OTHERS – 1965
THIS STUDY CLASSIFIED MNEMONIC STRATEGIES, EXAMINED THEIR THEORETICAL CHARACTERISTICS, AND REPORTED EXPERIMENTS INVESTIGATING THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF MNEMONICS IN PROGRAMED INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS. THE FIRST EXPERIMENT INVESTIGATED THE COMMON MNEMONICS USED BY STUDENTS IN STUDYING A MEDICAL TEXTBOOK. THE SECOND EXPERIMENT TESTED THE…
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, Instructional Materials, Material Development, Mnemonics
Anderson, Helen J. – Instructor, 1970
Descriptors: Handicapped Students, Instructional Materials, Itinerant Teachers, Special Education Teachers
