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Sasaoka, Taichi – 1990
Literacy materials are either for illiterate people or for neoliterate people (those who have attained limited literacy but might easily relapse if they do not practice reading with appropriate materials). Thirty-five kinds of prototype materials for neoliterate persons have been developed by the Asian/Pacific Joint Production Programme of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Developing Nations
Download full textAmerican Federation of Teachers, Washington, DC. – 1999
This booklet discusses the importance of all students being guaranteed a carefully crafted and appropriately balanced approach to reading instruction. Section 1, "Beginning Reading Instruction," discusses variation and inequity in reading instruction and reading skills nationwide. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has made it a priority to…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Improvement, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Tompkins, Leroy J. – 1981
This report presents both formative and summative data regarding the implementation and effectiveness of the Basic Skills Program carried out in the Montgomery County, Maryland, public schools in 1981. The program provides intensive remedial instruction in the basic skills areas of reading, writing, and mathematics to elementary (through grade 8)…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Education, Mathematics Skills, Parent Attitudes
Pierson, Dorothy A. – 1979
Aptitude and reading tests to be administered to technical college students are discussed in considering the design of a screening and diagnostic test battery. Diagnosis is condidered as a series of sequential steps: screening; testing; individualized program planning; program implementation; and investigation of the causes of reading difficulty.…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Content Area Reading, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1982
The provincial results of the English 33 Achievement Test administered June 8, 1982, as part of the Student Achievement Testing Program of Alberta Education are presented in this report. Following a list of the requirements of Part A (written expression), the first section describes the categories used to assess total expression and the scoring…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Instruction
Rush, R. Timothy – 1987
The average worker spends 2.5 hours per day in occupational reading or writing, yet most classrooms fail to teach the reading and writing competencies required in skilled and semi-skilled job contexts. Occupational reading requires use of external references and following of directions, with a heavy dependence on prior knowledge and on insight.…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Competency Based Education, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing
Biester, Thomas W.; And Others – 1983
This report presents the results of a New Jersey school district field test of a comprehensive administrator training program. The program's main objectives were to develop a knowledge-utilization approach to the improvement of instruction and student achievement in basic skills, and to develop and test strategies for installing and disseminating…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Basic Skills, Board of Education Role
Dumont, Bernard – 1990
Post-literacy is all the means and activities that allow persons who have recently become literate to make use of their skills and to increase and deepen the knowledge acquired. There are many kinds of literacy. What they all have in common is the merciless test of the durability of literacy's effect: After 1, 2, or 5 years, what will the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13, Lancaster, PA. – 1983
This teacher's guide is designed for use in helping adult basic education (ABE) students to develop beginning language skills. Addressed in the individual units of the guide are the following topics: occupational knowledge, consumer economics, health and safety, government and law, and community resources. Each unit contains some or all of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Behavioral Objectives
