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Download full textHavrilesky, C.
Two premises of Federal adult basic education legislation are that grade level completed measures achievement level or at least is significantly and positively related thereto, and that similar economic backgrounds indicate similar educational needs. Results of a 1967-68 New Jersey study, which showed relatively little relationship between grades…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Educational Background, Evaluation
Scheier, Elaine – 1969
A study compared the effectiveness of Learning 100 (L-100), a multimedia, multimodal, multilevel communication skills system, with that of a more conventional reading program with functional illiterates in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a ghetto area in Brooklyn, New York. In January, 1968, under the Title III Adult Education Act of 1966, Adult Basic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Dropouts, Conventional Instruction, Disadvantaged
