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Maisak, Nadzeya – ProQuest LLC, 2017
As the need for educated workers in the workforce grows at the national and state level, educating low-skilled adults is one way of addressing the skills gap. Adult education programs offer low-skilled adults an opportunity to increase basic academic skills and prepare for college and career. Today, transitioning students from adult education…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Postsecondary Education, Career Development, Community Colleges
Engelmann, Stephanie – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Job performance may be adversely affected by stress. Job stress is a primary contributor to serious physical and emotional health consequences. This quantitative study examined adult literacy program administrator perceptions of occupational stress and coping mechanisms related to job satisfaction, job efficacy, career longevity, and overall…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Coping, Stress Variables
Schaffer, Brigid Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This phenomenological study explored the perceptions and expectations of low income adults regarding financial literacy to discover ways to increase attendance in financial literacy programs designs for this cohort. The study utilized interviews with closed-ended questions to establish the participants' backgrounds, then opened-ended questions to…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Low Income Groups, Adult Literacy, Money Management
Leah Katherine Saal – ProQuest LLC, 2013
After over 60 years of plain writing advocacy calling for government agencies to increase the clarity of official communication, the Plain Writing Act (PWA) of 2010 codified the incorporation of plain language in any federal government document for pubic use. However, no extensive evaluation of government food assistance applications has been…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Federal Programs, Food, Welfare Services
Keesler, Amy R. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate the state of adult literacy in Tennessee. The field of adult education underwent a transition as the testing procedure and the test changed to correlate with the induction of the Common Core standards in public schools. Adult students face many barriers to overcome to be successful. The research…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Education, Adult Students, High School Equivalency Programs
Sanchez, Laura V. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Adult literacy training is known to be difficult in terms of teaching and maintenance (Abadzi, 2003), perhaps because adults who recently learned to read in their first language have not acquired reading automaticity. This study examines fast word recognition process in neoliterate adults, to evaluate whether they show evidence of perceptual…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Literacy, Adult Literacy, Task Analysis
Rodrick, Karin Few – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Postsecondary institutions are finding more students without the literacy proficiency to study on the collegiate level, yet little research has been completed in the area of adult literacy instruction. Due to this deficiency, literacy instructors have relied on utilizing children's reading strategies which have proven ineffective in an adult…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Adult Basic Education
Hamilton Cobb, Fredessa Denise – ProQuest LLC, 2013
We hear or read the following phrases often: "Everybody spends so much time on their smartphones that they never look up." "Just send me an email and we'll work out the scheduling." "You'll find all the job application materials on our website, where you can submit your application online." However, adults with low…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Adults, Handheld Devices, Reading Skills
Tomlin, Dru DeLance – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In "Images of Leadership" (1991), Bolman and Deal identified four "frames" that school administrators use when making decisions: structural, symbolic, human resource and political. They discovered that the latter two frames, which focus on relationships, partnerships, and communication, were most frequently identified as…
Descriptors: School Administration, Administrators, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role
Jones, Jayatta D. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Women Reading for Education, Affinity & Development (WREAD), a reading discussion group geared toward African American female adult-literacy students with self-defined histories of trauma, was an outgrowth of research identifying links between trauma, women's struggles with literacy, and the need to be conscious of emotional health…
Descriptors: Reading, Discussion Groups, African American Students, Females
Miller, Kelli – ProQuest LLC, 2011
At the 1978 United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization conference, literacy was determined as a right as expressed in the foundation of learning and the vital first step to the achievement of other human rights. However, in the state of Georgia, many high school students enter the working environment without minimum literacy…
Descriptors: Andragogy, Adult Literacy, Organizations (Groups), High School Students
Murphy, Martin G. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examined the predictive relationship between adult literacy students' reading assessments in four component sub-skills (phonological decoding, vocabulary, fluency, and spelling) and their gains in reading comprehension from pretest to posttest. Additionally, the adult literacy instructors' content knowledge in reading…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement, Achievement Gains
Mohammed, Adams Mashoud – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Most microcredit institutions focus on giving out credit to their clients with the assumption that these clients have the capacity and ability to manage the credit efficiently and the human capital to operate efficiently. There is evidence to show that most women in the Savelugu/Nanton district of Ghana have access to credit but lack the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Functional Literacy, Money Management, Females
Grossman, Helene Joyce – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Sokolowski (2000) summarized the phenomenological attitude by saying, "We look at what we normally look through" (p. 50). Through interviews and document analysis, this study looked at the lives of six students and their decision to return to their education to earn a high school diploma. The purpose of this study was to illuminate how…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Interviews
Perceptions of College Readiness and Social Capital of GED Completers in Entry-Level College Courses
Lott, Donalyn Leufroy – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Examining the efficacy of literacy improvement, general education development (GED) completion, and GED completers' perceptions of college readiness and social capital was the purpose of this study. The participant sample (n = 321), derived from the target population (N = 1050), consisted of former participants of Adult Literacy Education…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Social Capital, High School Equivalency Programs, Introductory Courses