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Chamberlain, Ed – 1991
The Neglected or Delinquent Program (N or D) of the Columbus (Ohio) Public Schools is designed to provide classrooms and tutorial services in language development for students served in facilities eligible for Chapter 1 aid for the neglected or delinquent. In the 1990-91 school year, one full-time N or D teacher and 12 part-time tutors served 153…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Child Neglect, Compensatory Education
Download full textLewis, Morgan V.; And Others – 1990
Vocational education programs conducted by the Cincinnati Public Schools were reviewed to analyze their characteristics and to clarify their mission and goals. The review examined information on demographic and economic trends in the labor market served by the schools and developed information on the purpose, conduct, and outcomes of the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy
Stapleton, Julia A. – 1987
Software and computer management systems that enable educators to manage the monitoring of student progress in acquiring skills for the High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) and other standardized tests used in New Jersey schools are described in this study. Focus is on the data collection components for student skill proficiency using the computer…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Computer Managed Instruction
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress. – 1978
This test manual presents the full results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) survey of 1,300 17-year-old students on performance in five major basic life skills: (1) personal finance and consumer protection; (2) health maintenance; (3) interpersonal competence; (4) family responsibility; and (5) career development. In…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Consumer Protection, Daily Living Skills
State Univ. of New York, Ithaca. Coll. of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell Univ. – 1978
The basic objective of this third research phase was to verify and further delineate factors that are constant and valid contributors to the success of postsecondary occupational students enrolled in developmental programs. Follow-up research on a longitudinal basis was conducted on nontraditional students at six New York colleges. Of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Colleges, Developmental Programs
Florida Community Coll., Jacksonville. – 1998
This workbook, one of six professional development manuals prepared by experienced adult basic education (ABE) instructors, is designed to assist the instructor setting up and operating an ABE classroom. A pretest and posttest appear first. Each of the units begins with a list of objectives and then provides instructional material. Unit 1…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Workplace ESL Literacy in Diverse Small Business Contexts: Final Evaluation Report on Project EXCEL.
Hemphill, David F. – 1992
Project EXCEL, a workplace literacy project involving four small business enterprises in San Francisco, is evaluated. The project focused on literacy and basic skills training for limited-English-proficient (LEP) workers. The businesses included the following: a communications and mass mailing firm; a dessert wholesale company; a Mexican…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communications, Curriculum, Employee Attitudes
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee. Center for Instructional Development and Services. – 1989
This program guide identifies particular considerations in the organization, operation, and evaluation of landscape operations and landscape technology programs. Contents include information on the following: program content and structure, including program description, job titles, licensure and credentialing, and program structure; curriculum…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Career Education
Mercer County Community Coll., Trenton, NJ. – 1992
This document offers materials for a 40-hour course aimed at helping employees read more efficiently by increasing their comprehension, retention, and test-taking skills. The course was part of a workplace literacy project developed by Mercer County Community College (New Jersey) and its partners. The document contains the following: (1) a course…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Basic Skills
Willis, Jean H. – 1994
The Meridian Partnership is a cooperative program established in 1992 by Meridian Community College (MCC), in Mississippi, and Peavey Electronics Corporation to provide expanded workplace literacy instruction to Peavey employees and to perform job analyses to develop customized mathematics and reading courseware. Hardware, software, classroom…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Community Colleges
New Jersey State Dept. of Higher Education, Trenton. New Jersey Basic Skills Council. – 1988
The New Jersey Basic Skills Assessment Program was created to determine the status of basic skills preparedness of freshmen entering public colleges and universities and to offer data to help colleges place freshman students in appropriate courses. The New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test (NJCBSPT) is a 3-hour-and-20-minute examination…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Basic Skills, College Freshmen
Greater Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, LA. – 1992
Developed by the ABCs of Construction National Workplace Literacy Project, these curriculum materials for the occupational area of pipefitter contain a lesson that deals with measuring fractions. The lesson consists of an instruction sheet and three exercises with answer keys. (YLB)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives
Kambouri, Maria; Francis, Hazel – 1994
A two-phase study examined the incidence and nature of dropout and progression from basic skills programs in England and Wales. During the first (retrospective) phase, data about 1,920 students' attendance/dropout patterns and reasons' for finishing/leaving their basic skills programs were obtained from 82 tutors (of more than 300 contacted) in 8…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
McKeag, Janis – 1994
A project of Local 343 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and the Construction Labour Relations Association (CLRA) of Manitoba documented the workplace literacy skills needed by union carpenters on job sites in Manitoba. The following techniques were used: mailed questionnaires to the carpenter members of Local 343 and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Building Trades, Carpentry
Dilcher, Ann Katherine – 1993
In spring 1992, the Southport Institute for Policy Analysis conducted a study of the role that community colleges play as providers of workplace education (WPE) programs, i.e., programs established for, or in cooperation with, a private sector company to help employees obtain a General Equivalency Degree (GED) or upgrade their basic skills. A…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Continuing Education, Cooperative Programs
