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Fute, Antony; Wan, Xiu-lan; Oubibi, Mohamed – International Review of Education, 2023
Literacy is a fundamental aspect of development and a step towards freedom and liberation from socio-economic constraints, because it enables all citizens to realise their basic right to learning. However, the global efforts which -- according to a 2017 estimate of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) --…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Education, Literacy Education, Foreign Countries
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Sidra Noreen; Zafar Iqbal – European Journal of Education, 2025
This study explores the effectiveness of social practice approach by integrating social practices along with modern teaching strategies, and teacher training to address the challenge of low academic achievement among adult learners in basic literacy programs. For a 4-month experiment, two of a metropolitan city's fourteen adult literacy centres…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Adult Literacy
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Yamashita, Takashi; Smith, Thomas J.; Cummins, Phyllis A. – Adult Literacy Education, 2023
Adult literacy skills are critical assets of individuals as well as societies in terms of economic (e.g., human capital) and social well-being. Thus, it is important to monitor the long-term trends and sources of skill gain/loss. Yet, temporal sources of adult literacy skill variation are understudied. The current study analyzed three comparable,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Human Capital, Surveys, Adults
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Olga M. Escamilla; Kim Glenn; Sarah Goldammer; Callie Hazan; David J. Rosen – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2023
The Association of Adult Literacy Professional Developers (AALPD) provides an avenue for networking of professional developers in the field of adult education. In the early years, the organization established three priorities related to professional development: (1) professional development standards, (2) research, and (3) funding. In 2006, the…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Education, Educational Development, Professional Associations
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Kaldes, Gal; Tighe, Elizabeth; He, Qiwei – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2023
This study used PIAAC process data to examine time-related allocation patterns (time for the first action, total time, last action) of low-skilled, relative to higher-skilled, adults on digital literacy items. Results suggest that less-skilled (Level 2) and higher skilled adults (Levels 3-5) exhibited similar time allocation patterns; however,…
Descriptors: Time Management, Literacy Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Education
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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
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Andreea Stancea; Nicoleta Corbu; Corina Buzoianu – European Journal of Education, 2025
This article investigates regional disparities in Romanian adults' numeracy and literacy skills. We analyse a novel data set that combines the assessment of numeracy and literacy competencies of the adult population in Romania with information about regional economic conditions and educational administrative data. Using a background questionnaire…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Numeracy, Adults
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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
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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
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Yugant Patra – Commission for International Adult Education, 2024
Adult literacy is an essential subject to examine given its impact on human development indicators. A significant gap exists as nation-states progress on these indices, especially in developing economies. National governments and international and bilateral development organizations seek to improve adult literacy metrics for the developing world…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Economic Development
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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