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Abadzi, Helen – 1994
Literacy education experience shows that literacy is not easily disseminated to adults and that the skills of newly literate people are notable. Dropout, mastery, and retention rates are about 50 percent at each stage, so the effectiveness rate of some projects may only be 12-15 percent. To find causes for the low effectiveness of literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Age Differences
