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Butterfield, P. H. – 1981
According to a 1980 estimate, 5,678,000 black South African adults are illiterate. A large number of organizations has been created to address the problem--among them such private sector operations as the South African Committee for Higher Education, Operation TEACH (Teach Every African Child), the Bureau of Literacy and Literature, the Urban…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Blacks, Cooperation, Education Work Relationship
Kozol, Jonathan – 1985
Intended for those involved in American social service and educational communities, this book addresses the widespread problem of illiteracy in the United States and the social consequences of this problem. Following an introduction, the chapters in the first section of the book discuss the growing crisis of illiterate America, specifically, the…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Bilingualism, Educational Trends, Functional Literacy
Baar-Kessler, Madeline – 1984
A study was conducted to obtain information about the involvement of the private sector in creating literacy programs for employees. Specifically, it examined the extent to which selected Fortune 500 companies were involved in literacy training and the extent to which materials and methods used were relevant to specific job tasks. An analysis of…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Business Responsibility, Educational Research, Job Skills
Lauterborn, Robert F. – 1981
Illiterate workers in industrial jobs can endanger themselves and fellow workers by misreading warning signs and can cost companies millions by misreading instructions. The problem of literacy is also apparent in offices, where often dictated correspondence must be retyped at least once because of errors. Of 800 companies surveyed, 35% felt they…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Business, Industry
Richards, Lisa, Ed. – GED Items, 1996
"GED Items" is published bimonthly by the GED Testing Service of the American Council on Education. This volume contains six issues, each containing several articles related to adult education, equivalency testing, and the General Educational Development (GED) program. The first issue features an article by Frederick Stadler on the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adults, Educational Technology
Kline, Theresa J. B. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2004
The Test of Workplace Essential Skills (TOWES) assesses cognitive skills in three areas using the following three separate subscales: Reading Text, Document Use, and Numeracy in Working-Age Adults. The sample was composed of 2,688 working-age English-speaking Canadians who came from a variety of settings (e.g., trades training programs, adult…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Job Skills, Workplace Literacy, Adult Literacy
Washington, Charles W., Ed. – LINKAGES, 1995
This theme issue for people working in the field of adult literacy focuses on the impact of learning disabilities (LD) on an adult's social skills. It explores various social, emotional, and daily living concerns which adults with learning disabilities may face. The following articles are included: (1) "Social Skills and Adults with Learning…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adults
Matuszak, David J. – 1994
This report describes the following components of the Nestle Workplace Literacy Project: six job task analyses, curricula for six workplace basic skills training programs, delivery of courses using these curricula, and evaluation of the process. These six job categories were targeted for training: forklift loader/checker, BB's processing systems…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Inplant Programs
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1992
This guide is designed to provide private industry councils (PICs) with information on developing workplace literacy or job-related basic skills programs. Chapter 1 contains an overview of the nation's literacy problem and how it affects business and is designed to provide PIC members with background information to use when discussing the problem…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Case Studies
Galin, Jeffrey R. – 1990
Most corporate funds for workplace literacy programs are invested in intermediate literate workers. Questions regarding these learners concern what should be expected of them; what they should expect of workplace literacy programs; who or what should determine these criteria; and ramifications of the answers. Issues that affect the answers are the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Curriculum Development
Seaman, Don F.; Denyer, Jacque L. – 1991
A workplace literacy project to prepare Houston Lighting and Power Company employees for the commercial driver's licence (CDL) exam was evaluated. The following four components of Steele's (1990) evaluation model were used to evaluate the project: proof of effect, judgment against criteria, critical questions, and valuing. The evaluation revealed…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Certification, Driver Education
Garay, Mary Sue – 1992
The globalization of business has influenced the development of customized, job-specific workplace literacy programs. Work-centered participatory literacy receives support from both business and labor and additional impetus from the National Literacy Act of 1991. The worker of the future will be a thinking and communicating problem solver. The…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Demonstration Programs, Educational Cooperation
Colorado Community Coll. and Occupational Education System, Denver. – 1992
This volume, one of a series of eight curriculum guides compiled by the Colorado Workplace Learning Initiative: 1991-92, contains five courses designed to prepare people to take the General Educational Development (GED) tests. Introductory materials include a table of contents and a list of the curriculum topics covered by each of the guides. The…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Curriculum Guides, Fine Arts, High School Equivalency Programs
Proper, Len – 1994
This report summarizes the 18 programs that have received Governor's Workforce Excellence Awards in Ohio over the past 3 years. The 18 award winning programs (based in companies employing from 75 to 16,000 employees) focus on the basic literacy, thinking, and personal skills that every Ohio worker must possess. They were selected from nearly 100…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Awards
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. National Workplace Literacy Program. – 1993
This publication presents the abstracts of the 57 National Workplace Literacy Program 1993 projects. Each abstract provides the following information: project title; award number; project director; awardee; address; telephone and fax numbers; funds by fiscal year (federal and nonfederal); award period; federal project officer; objectives;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Cooperative Programs, Coordination