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Davis, Christina – 1999
This project was conducted to determine whether using videotapes, designed for the purpose of teaching English pronunciation, would improve the pronunciation of English as a second language learners at the Lebanon Adult Education Center in Pennsylvania. The videotapes used were entitled "Perfect English Pronunciation." Learners were…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
Urey, Donna – 1999
A project was conducted to redesign the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education required student tracking form to provide for better student tracking. The Student Intake and Data form supplied by the PDE from program year 1996-97 was used as a point of comparison, and evaluations of this form by…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Data Collection
Hawk, Kim; And Others – 1996
This document contains a project report and tutor manual from a demonstration project conducted by the Fayette County Community Action Agency (FCCAA) of Fayette County, Pennsylvania to evaluate the effectiveness of using computers and selected reading software in conjunction with traditional one-on-one tutoring to teach reading skills to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, College School Cooperation
Central Intermediate Unit 10, Pleasant Gap, PA. – 1993
A project geared to adult educators in rural central Pennsylvania addressed the topics of recruitment and retention of students in adult education programs in order to help the educators find solutions to these problems. Seminars conducted twice during 1993 covered the following topics: methods of recruitment, overcoming text anxiety, curbing the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
PASSAGE, 1990
This document consists of 11 issues of a workplace and job-skills information newsletter specifically designed for adult education program practitioners and their students. The issues are preceded by a final report on the project. The purposes of the newsletter were to disseminate "hands-on" career and job development information of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
Shaner, J. Michael – 1980
The Adult School for Cuban Refugees, operated by the Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit in 1980, supplied services to approximately 1,200 Cuban refugee students in the six weeks of its operation at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. The program offered basic oral English classes to adults ranging in age from 18 to 81 years. The classes were…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Neuman, Susan B. – 1996
These two documents discuss two related family literacy projects that were conducted to develop a model for providing sustained literacy and developmental activities to economically disadvantaged families throughout Pennsylvania. The first document details the development/implementation of the Families Reading Together program, which built upon…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Demonstration Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit 16, Lewisburg, PA. – 1980
The Adult School for Cuban Refugees, operated by the Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit in 1980, supplied services to approximately 1,200 Cuban refugees in the six weeks of its operation at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. The program offered basic oral English classes to adults ranging in age from 18 to 81 years. The classes were conducted…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Adult Educator Exchange Program. Pennsylvania 310 Project. Final Report, July 1, 1980-June 30, 1981.
Royce, Sherry – 1981
Field experience reports are provided for exemplary adult education programs in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia which were each visited by an adult education administrator from another of the programs. Each report overviews the program, makes observations on unique aspects of the program (such as programs,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
Pennsylvania Association for Adult Continuing Education, Harrisburg, PA. – 1981
In Pennsylvania where 30 percent of the adult population is functionally illiterate and another 24 percent has only marginal competence, no state funds are appropriated for adult basic education and general educational development (ABE/GED) programs. All programs are supported by federal aid. Information shows that economic revitalization and a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Economic Development
Cooper, Richard – 1997
A project was conducted in Pennsylvania to conduct a statewide staff development project on adults with learning differences using the following delivery systems: initial training sessions; advanced training sessions; videotapes of training sessions; the "Learning disAbilities Newsletter"; printed material from the Center for Alternative…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Classroom Techniques, Information Dissemination
Elsleger, Barbara – 1999
After observing the lack of parental involvement in children's educational development among clients, an instructor determined to learn if offering incentives to parents to work with their child/children would increase parental involvement. Working in an adult basic education/General Educational Development parental assistance program with…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
Sherow, Sheila M. – 1999
The Pennsylvania State Coalition for Adult Literacy's Building Communities for Learning (BCL) Project was conducted to improve the delivery of adult basic and literacy education services through interagency collaboration and community-based planning at the local level. The project awarded community-based planning grants to locales through a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Agency Cooperation, Community Cooperation
Reiff, Tana, Ed. – 1995
This guide is for teachers, tutors, counselors, and others working with adult learners in programs of literacy, adult basic education, General Educational Development test preparation, and English as a Second Language. It is a compendium of short articles written by 50 adult basic educators in Pennsylvania. The articles provide background…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13, Lancaster, PA. – 1996
Project Accessible eXpress Intercommunication for Staff development (AXIS) was undertaken to coordinate, unify, and systematize communications related to the staff development programs administered by Pennsylvania's Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE) by developing a unified system of print materials, online connectivity, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Computer Networks, Computer Oriented Programs