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Lincoln Intermediate Unit No. l2, New Oxford, PA. – 1985
This collection of adult student writing is the product of a literacy education project in Pennsylvania. Contributors to the volume were adult students in Adult Basic Education (ABE), General Education Development (GED), English as a Second Language (ESL), and basic literacy classes. The adults who participated in this writing project were…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Creative Writing, Educationally Disadvantaged
Royce and Royce, Inc., Lancaster, PA. – 1995
This booklet profiles 10 former participants in adult basic education (ABE) and literacy programs who have gone on to build successful lives and careers and have been designated outstanding adult students by the Pennsylvania Association for Adult and Continuing Education. The men and women selected as award winners were sponsored by the following…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
Molek, Carol – 1999
A project was conducted to revise the list of assessment instruments that Pennsylvania Department of Education, Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE)-funded agencies are permitted to use to report learner gains. Through a mail survey, the project researched 19 standardized assessment instruments used by agencies for reporting learner…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Criteria
Community Action Southwest, Waynesburg, PA. – 1995
A staff development project created a series of family science activities to be used in adult basic and literacy education (ABLE) and family literacy programs and a training guide for staff and volunteers. The training guide provides background principles and concepts for science activities. The activities identify materials and indicate ways the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Classroom Techniques
Merrifield, Juliet – 1998
In the current environment of global economic restructuring, changes in work and employment, and large-scale immigration to the United States, adult basic education (ABE) is facing demands that it be accountable for its performance by demonstrating its success in terms of student and societal outcomes. The increasing calls for ABE to develop a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Competence
Cort, Maureen; Krouse, Nancy; Gonzalez, Manuel – 1998
This document begins with a report describing a Northampton Community College project to develop a manual to help adult literacy providers understand how they fit into welfare reform. The accompanying manual consists of four sections corresponding to the project's four objectives. Section 1, intended to enable adult literacy providers to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Agency Cooperation
Bethlehem Area Chamber of Commerce, PA. – 1991
Lehigh Valley (Pennsylvania) business, education, and service representatives offered residents of a two-county work force a chance to take the General Educational Development (GED) test for free and improve basic skills. Lehigh Valley census data indicated that one-third of the 650,000 population lacked a high school diploma, yet fewer than 500…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Agency Cooperation
Burrows, Debra G. – 1997
A project developed and conducted a summer institute to offer training, hands-on activities, and workshops addressing educational technology for adult basic education (ABE), General Educational Development (GED) and literacy education teachers, administrators, and staff. During the first phase of the project, the institute was designed as a 3-day…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Computer Uses in Education
Kriley, Pat – 1999
An adult educator in Butler, Pennsylvania, noticed that, although students who took the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) seemed highly motivated to improve their basic skills in mathematics and spatial relations, only 2 of her 20 students who took the GATB made a concerted effort to develop their vocabulary. Thinking that those two students…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Cooperative Learning
Shenk, Timothy – 1999
A study investigated the teaching of grammar in an advanced English as a Second Language (ESL) class in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. For a week, the instructor taught the students on the topic of comparatives, superlatives, and equatives. The instructor gave a written pretest, posttest, and a delayed posttest to the whole class of 15-25 immigrants and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Conversational Language Courses
Forlizzi, Lori A.; Askov, Eunice N. – 1994
A project developed a comprehensive database of Pennsylvania state adult literacy service providers that could be used to provide information on service provision to public and private organizations and individuals. The project team distributed a mailed survey to 2,911 known and potential adult literacy service-providing organizations throughout…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Data Processing
Schuylkill Intermediate Unit #29, Mar Lin, PA. – 1994
A 10-week course called "Communiclearsory" Training was developed to improve the written and oral communications skills of supervisors/foremen in the manufacturing trades. A total of 39 selected supervisors from 2 manufacturing industries in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, were assessed by using the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE)…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Communication Skills, County Programs
Bethlehem Area Chamber of Commerce, PA. – 1991
Seminar materials are provided from the Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) Area Chamber of Commerce's Literacy Sensitivity Program, which assists managers in identifying workplace basic skills training needs. The document includes the following sections: seminar overview; conducting the seminar--the presentation, the video, the group discussion, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Agency Cooperation
Fogoros, Anne Walsh – 1981
Project WE CARE (Workers' Education and Community Awareness of Resources for Education), in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, developed, implemented, and documented the process of implementing adult basic education program linkage/outreach with business, industry, and human service organizations. The project emphasis was on educating human service…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Community Information Services, Community Resources
Gacka, Richard – 1997
The document details the development of a project to provide adult students with the academic and work skills required for admission to the Regional Skill Center, which is an adult technical school serving Erie County, Pennsylvania. The body of the report summarizes the following project outcomes: development of a four-tiered system of work force…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Curriculum Development
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