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International Comparisons of Adult Literacy and Numeracy Skills over Time. Data Point. NCES 2022-005
Mamedova, Saida; Pawlowski, Emily – National Center for Education Statistics, 2021
This Data Point summarizes trends in adult literacy and numeracy skills since the 1990s for the United States and for those countries that participated with the United States in all three international adult literacy studies over the past three decades: Canada, Hungary, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. Results in this Data Point…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Numeracy, Adults, Foreign Countries
Clarena Larrotta; Shannon D. Ture – Adult Learning, 2025
The United States has been the global leader resettling refugees since the 1970s; its resettlement program is the largest in the world. The state of Texas has a high number of admissions and longstanding refugee programs which makes it a strategic site for research. This article reports findings of a reflective case study within an open enrollment…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Refugees, Adult Learning, Adult Education
Ephraim Lemmy Nuwagaba; Caesar Kyebakola; John Francis Garuzooka – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2024
Adult literacy provision globally and in Uganda has, over the years, undergone changes because addressing the learning needs of adult learners in a wide range of contexts requires innovative programming. This paper uses the Adult Learning and Education System Building Approach (ALESBA) to analyse the operational environment and institutional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adult Education
Iles, Vanessa; Cassidy, Lindy; Finch, Jill – Adult Literacy Education, 2023
The Reading Writing Hotline was originally conceived as phone support for viewers of an educational TV series. Celebrating it's 30th anniversary next year, it has evolved to become a national referral service for learners, as well as an information and advisory service for industry and community. It recorded a significant increase in call numbers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Educational Innovation, Educational Television
Grossi, Flávia Cristina Duarte Pôssas; Fonseca, Maria da Conceição Ferreira Reis – Adult Literacy Education, 2023
This study analyses how older (mostly 60 years or over) women who are literacy students at Youth and Adult Education Program in a small village of Brazil appropriate school numeracy practices during a class about the discursive genre "label" and the information it conveys. We focus on the students' participation in the discursive…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Females, Adult Literacy, Merchandise Information
Demirbilek, Mesut; Keser, Sitar – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
Functional literacy is the learning of knowledge and skills for vital necessities as a higher level of basic literacy and then the operational use of this information in individual, socio-cultural, or economic fields. This research aims to examine the opinions of teachers in the context of functional literacy related to the II level primary…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Educators, Public Education, Teacher Attitudes
Wang, Chih-Wei; Sainz, Amanda; Joshi, Suresh C.; Alfred, Mary V. – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic drastically impacted the Texas Division of Adult Education. As a result, Texas's grant-funded adult education and literacy (AEL) programs transitioned to remote instruction. There was a need to understand how this unfolded. Thus, the purpose of this case study was to explore how the Texas Division of Adult Education guided…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Adult Education, Distance Education
Belzer, Alisa; Grotlüschen, Anke – International Review of Education, 2022
This article provides a comparative analysis of the ways in which learners are portrayed in researchers' descriptions of adult literacy education policy. Although adult learners are rarely referred to directly in policy or in policy research, a range of assumptions about them may be inferred through close analysis of related research literature.…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Meta Analysis
Mamedova, Saida; Pawlowski, Emily – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
Low-skilled adults in literacy in English are those with skills insufficient to complete tasks requiring comparing and contrasting information, paraphrasing, or making low-level inferences. Low-skilled adults in numeracy in English are those who would have difficulty making calculations with whole numbers and percentages, estimating numbers or…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Adult Literacy, Reading Skills, Adults
Donnette Narine; Takashi Yamashita; Runcie C. W. Chidebe; Phyllis A. Cummins; Jenna W. Kramer; Rita Karam – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
Job automation is a topical issue in a technology-driven labor market. However, greater amounts of human capital (e.g., often measured by education, and information-processing skills, including adult literacy) are linked with job security. A knowledgeable and skilled labor force better resists unemployment and/or rebounds from job disruption…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Automation, Job Security, Labor Force Development
Kathy Sanford; Bruno de Oliveira Jayme; Tanya Manning-Lewis – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2024
Literacy as a unified concept is no longer valid or useful for today's complex world, where globally we face many challenges and contradictions. Adult literacy is shifting rapidly, and the human need for visually communicating meaningfully and relationally -- beyond 'reading and writing' -- is vital for addressing wicked problems and difficult…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Multiple Literacies, Social Justice, World Problems
Consent through Art: A Critique of a Visual Method Developed with Peer-Researchers in Southern Nepal
Joanna Morrison; Awantika Priyadarshani; Abriti Arjyal – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2024
Obtaining informed consent can be challenging during peer research when the boundaries between researcher and participant are blurred. We developed a novel visual consent method with illiterate artists in Nepal who conducted peer interviews in their communities. Artists discussed and sketched images related to ethical principles to create a visual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Researchers, Action Research, Participatory Research
Gonzalez, Alexa S.; Tremblay, Kathryn A.; Binder, Katherine S. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
An estimated one-fifth of adults in the United States possess low literacy skills, which includes minimal proficiency in reading and difficulty processing contextual information. One way to study reading behavior of adults with low literacy is through eye movement studies; however, these investigations have been generally limited. Thus, the…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Decoding (Reading), Ambiguity (Semantics), Adult Literacy
Robinson-Pant, Anna – International Review of Education, 2023
Within citizenship education, literacy is often promoted in a narrow functional sense of skills for civic engagement or is used synonymously with "knowledge" to refer to an awareness-raising process around rights. Through an analysis of evolving models of citizenship, this article moves beyond literacy "for" citizenship to…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Ethnography
Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Kaldes, Gal; Talwar, Amani; Crossley, Scott A.; Greenberg, Daphne; Skalicky, Stephen – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2023
Comprehension monitoring is a meta-cognitive skill that is defined as the ability to self-evaluate one's comprehension of text. Although it is known that struggling adult readers are poor at monitoring their comprehension, additional research is needed to understand the mechanisms underlying comprehension monitoring and their role in reading…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Adults, Reading Skills, Adult Literacy