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This guide, which is intended primarily for adult education practitioners in Virginia, explains the process of developing workplace basic skills programs. Presented first is background information on the guide's development. The following are among the topics discussed in the guide's seven chapters: the need for work force education (changes in…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
Tikunoff, William J. – 1983
The Significant Bilingual Instructional Features (SBIF) descriptive study identified, described, and verified important features of bilingual education for instuction of limited English proficient students. Part I involved the study of 58 classrooms and 232 students, grade K-12, at six diverse sites representing a variety of ethnolinguistic…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Classroom Communication
Hoepfner, Ralph; And Others – 1977
Sampling techniques used in "A Study of the Sustaining Effects of Compensatory Education" are described in detail. The Sustaining Effects Study is a large, multi-faceted study of issues related to the compensatory education of elementary school students. Public elementary schools that include grades between one and six are eligible for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Fischer, Joseph C. – 1994
An adult workplace program of literacy and basic skills is described and evaluated both for its effectiveness in the year 1992-93 and as a model for similar program efforts elsewhere. The evaluation addresses three specific program objectives: (1) establishment of a governance structure to assess actual workplace literacy requirements at the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Attendance Patterns
Campion, William J. – 1993
The planning and evaluation process at Central Florida Community College (CFCC) is based on the identification of demonstrable outcomes measures, referred to as indicators of excellence (IE's). The indicators were developed during a 4-year long, institution-wide effort in which every employee had the opportunity to comment on proposed indicators.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Basic Skills, Budgets, College Planning
Zanoni, Candido P. – 1980
Efforts of the General College of the University of Minnesota to increase student retention during the 1979-80 academic year are described. The target groups were high-risk students, especially representatives of minority groups from traditionally nonacademic populations. The college mounted a pilot education program (PEP) comprising three…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, American Indians, Basic Skills
Kasworm, Carol E., Ed.; Lyle, Buddy L., Ed. – 1978
Selected contributions from a workshop on competency-based adult education (CBAE) are presented in this monograph. The articles define the current trends in the theory and practice of CBAE. The monograph consists of five major sections. Section 1, the overview, offers a historical frame of reference, examination of terminology and definitions, a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Basic Skills
Pritz, Sandra G.; And Others – 1995
The Center on Education and Training for Employment (CETE) at the Ohio State University worked in partnership with the Ohio State Building and Construction Trades Council (OSB&CT) to develop and deliver customized workplace literacy services for local union members in six major Ohio cities (Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, Dayton, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Classroom Techniques
Gee, Mary Kay – 1998
This publication provides a model curriculum with a focus on welfare-to-work, school-to-work, and first-time employees. It emphasizes the basic competencies most valued by employers for the current and future domestic and global work force. Section 1 presents an overview of LifeWork, a performance-based transitional program that uses the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives
Hull, Glynda – 1992
This paper describes ethnographic research in a community college banking and finance program in the context of the opposing positions of the need for basic skills and preparation for jobs and the need for critical skills and preparation for citizenship in a democracy. After these positions are reviewed, research is described on students in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Banking, Basic Skills, Blacks
Greenville County School District, Greenville, SC. – 1977
The first year of a demonstration experience-based career education (EBCE) project implemented to provide realistic career information to J.L. Mann High School (South Carolina) students was evaluated. The project was intended to provide the EBCE students with community-based career experiences structured to reinforce academic instruction, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education
Romano, Joan L.; Garfield, Joan B. – 1980
An end-of-year evaluation of the 1979-80 University of Minnesota's General College (GC) Pilot Education Program (PEP) for academically underprepared minority group students is presented. The results show that compared to other GC students, the PEP students came to the college with weaker academic skills, and had different personal characteristics.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, American Indians, Basic Skills
Kaufman, Phillip; Bradby, Denise; Teitelbaum, Peter – 2000
To raise vocational completers' academic achievement through school reform, the High Schools That Work (HSTW) network of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) promotes 10 key practices for raising academic achievement. The impact of these key practices was examined in a study of how 424 schools adopted them in the following six clusters:…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Academic Standards, Adoption (Ideas)
Stein, Sondra – 2000
This document presents the Equipped for the Future Framework (EFF) content standards that were developed over a 6-year period by hundreds of adult education practitioners, experts, and others nationwide to create a working consensus on what adults need to know and be able to do in the 21st century. Chapter 1 defines adult literacy for the 21st…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
Peterson, Elizabeth A.; Ott, Joyce; Wilson, Kathleen – 2002
This document is intended to help literacy practitioners and others in South Carolina promote workplace literacy and basic skills development programs. The introduction examines the following topics: South Carolina's current workforce and its outlook; the definitions of literacy and workplace literacy; the need for workplace literacy and basic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Education Work Relationship
