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Leah Hauge; Aydin Yucesan Durgunoglu; Janet Stewart – Grantee Submission, 2024
All around the globe, the development of digital skills is considered a priority because individuals are increasingly asked to interact with digital information. Digital literacy is required to communicate effectively and accomplish social and work-related tasks. Although there is a significant body of literature on the development of digital…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, English Language Learners, Technological Literacy
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Javier Suárez-Álvarez; María Elena Oliveri; April Zenisky; Stephen G. Sireci – Grantee Submission, 2024
Summative assessments provide data to evaluate the effectiveness of schools, teachers, and educational policies, contributing to a robust accountability system worldwide. However, educators and scholars argue that summative assessments do not effectively promote ongoing learning, enhance teaching practices, or align with the skills required in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Summative Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Adult Educators
Prins, Esther; Clymer, Carol; Foreman, Sheri Suarez; Loa, Martin; Needle, Mark; Raymond, Becky; Toso, Blaire Willson; Ziskind, Alex – Grantee Submission, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine how adult education providers in Chicago, Houston, and Miami are designing and implementing career pathways (CP) programming, especially for adults who are immigrants or have barriers to employment and education. The researcher-practitioner partnership included the Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Career Development, Immigrants
Dikhtyar, Oksana; Helsinger, Abigail; Cummins, Phyllis; Hicks, Nytasia – Grantee Submission, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused one of the worst economic crises since the Great Depression. Although countries responded quickly to support displaced workers with assistance packages and funding for education and training, additional measures might be needed. Each country's economic recovery will most likely depend on how well its workforce is…
Descriptors: Adult Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Economic Impact
Elizabeth L. Tighe; Gal Kaldes; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2023
Inferencing skills uniquely contribute to the reading comprehension skills of older grade-school and college students. Evidence also suggests that children's reading component skills, such as decoding and language comprehension, differentially contribute to various reading comprehension assessments. However, additional research is needed to…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Development, Morphology (Languages)