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Holmes, John – Studies in Adult Education, 1976

A discussion of the needs and consideration of the appropriateness of various methodological approaches used in conducting research projects on adult literacy. (WL)

Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Educational Research, Educational Researchers

How Adult Literacy Practitioners Use Research. Occasional Research Paper.

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St. Clair, Ralf; Chen, Chia-Yin; Taylor, Lyndsay – 2003

Staff members of a state literary resource center surveyed their practitioner clients to determine how they viewed research and the kinds of uses they made of it. Mail surveys were sent to all of the 404 adult education and English as a second language program directors in the state, and followup telephone interviews were conducted with 16 of the…

Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adoption (Ideas), Adult Literacy, Diffusion (Communication)