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Download full textIowa State Dept. of Education, Des Moines. Div. of Community Colleges. – 1996
This publication contains the reports for six Iowa Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System (CASAS) pilot projects conducted at the following community colleges: Northeast Iowa Community College, Eastern Iowa Community College, Kirkwood Community College, Western Iowa Tech Community College, Indian Hills Community College, and Southeastern…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Basic Skills, Community Colleges
Strom, Mary L. – 1994
In fall 1992, the Iowa Department of Education began pilot tests of the Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System (CASAS), an assessment system evaluating reading, math, and problem solving in a life skills context for adult remedial programs. This document provides reports from the nine community colleges that served as test sites, describing…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Basic Skills, Community Colleges
Iowa State Dept. of Education, Des Moines. Div. of Community Colleges and Workforce Preparation. – 1998
First-year evaluation results of Iowa's Basic Skills Certification pilot program were reported for the four community colleges participating: Northeast Iowa, Des Moines Area, Western Iowa Tech, and Iowa Western. The pilot sites represented a variety of adult basic education instructional environments that included a workforce development center,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Educational Certificates
Van Ast, John – 1989
This document considers whether postsecondary education can change the way it operates. The introduction identifies six challenges of the 1990s, including heterogeneous student populations; quality of working life competence, basic competence, employability competence, learning-to-learn competence, common core competencies, and the arts and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education, Educational Change
