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Download full textNew Jersey State Dept. of Higher Education, Trenton. New Jersey Basic Skills Council. – 1986
The New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test (NJCBSPT) is administered in a new form each year to all entering freshmen in New Jersey public colleges and 12 participating independent colleges. The NJCBSPT was taken by 44,344 students from March through December 1985. Test results revealed the following: (1) 26% were proficient in verbal…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Private 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
Colorado State Community Coll. and Occupational Education System, Denver. – 1996
A survey was conducted of Colorado postsecondary career and technical programs in 1995 to gauge how the state has responded to mandates of the Carl Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act of 1990. Results were reported for the first three of nine standards developed by a statewide committee in 1992. The three standards require postsecondary…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Education, Community Colleges, Evaluation Methods
Mitchell, Virginia P.; Smith, Richard M. – 1980
The validity of cut-off scores, used to place students into English and mathematics courses, and a dichotomized success variable, representing student abilities related to success in three sequential mathematics courses, were investigated. This study, examining the cutting scores of students entering Mercer County Community College in Fall, 1978,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Algebra, Basic Skills, College Freshmen
Brannon, Yevonne S.; And Others – 1988
A North Carolina study examined the problem of adult illiteracy in Spring 1988. Secondary data for the service areas of eight community colleges chosen as study sites indicated that approximately 25 percent of North Carolinans aged 25 years and older had completed less than the ninth grade in 1980 and the majority of them were unemployed. A review…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
Continuing Education Inst., Needham, MA. – 1997
The Adult Diploma Program is a high school equivalency program that is operated as a partnership between the Continuing Education Institute in Watertown, Massachusetts, and five area businesses. In early 1997, 36 of the program's 40 graduates were surveyed regarding their activities since graduation and their views of the program's usefulness to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Cohen, Marie – Issue Notes, 1998
Some welfare experts and policymakers advocate providing education and training to prepare welfare recipients for jobs that will eventually help them leave poverty (the "work first" approach), whereas others advocate placing welfare recipients in jobs immediately whenever possible. Although the Personal Responsibility and Work…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Basic Skills
Royce, Sherry, Ed. – 2000
This booklet contains profiles of nine outstanding adult learners from eight Pennsylvania counties who have been recognized for their educational achievements and for acknowledging the power of education in their lives and overcoming great personal difficulties to improve and enhance the quality of their lives and those of their families and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
