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Askov, Eunice N.; Sherow, Sheila M. – 1989
This document is the final report of the first year's operation of a project designed to train literacy and adult education providers and organizations in business, industry, and labor to develop and implement effective workplace literacy programs. The program, which operates in Pennsylvania on the state and regional levels, initiates the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Cooperative Programs
BCEL Newsletter for the Business Community, 1990
This article is devoted to explaining the use and misuse of standardized tests in adult literacy programs. Among the topics covered on that subject are why the tests are of such interest among adult educators: because the authority vested in these tests can determine the way programs are developed, what is taught, the climate of teaching and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Alternative Assessment, Basic Skills
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Div. of Adult Basic and Literacy Education Programs. – 1990
This document describes the 10 winners of the 1990 ABLE Award, which recognizes outstanding adult students in Pennsylvania adult basic and literacy education programs. The award, given for achievement based on learning excellence (ABLE), is presented by the Pennsylvania Division of Adult Basic and Literacy Education Programs. The winners are…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Awards, Basic Skills
Limtrakarn, Siriporn – 1990
This paper discusses the literacy situation in Thailand, where, while literacy is regarded as the basic right of every Thai, the greater proportion of the population reads at the elementary level. The paper first examines the national policy on literacy, focusing on problems which remain to be tackled under the Fifth National Economic and Social…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Basic Skills, Educational Assessment
Canadian Business Task Force on Literacy, Toronto (Ontario). – 1988
A study was conducted to determine the costs of illiteracy in Canada and to suggest future efforts to combat it. Research was conducted by interviewing 35 persons involved with education in Canada, such as officials of the Ministry of Skills Development, other government officials, statisticians, employment service personnel, representatives of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Business, Business Responsibility
Small Business Administration, Washington, DC. – 1988
This summary reports on the proceedings of a conference that was convened to focus attention on the implications of inadequate literacy levels among present and future employees of small businesses and to share successful approaches to the task of helping these employees develop the literacy skills required to meet ever-changing job requirements.…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Business Communication, Business Responsibility, Educational Legislation
Adult Literacy: Programs, Planning, Issues, 1989
This document describes the British Adult Literacy and Basic Skills Unit (ALBSU) because information on the ALBSU experience might be useful to planners working to establish a similar national literacy center in the United States. (The ALBSU was formed in London in the mid-1970s to support the BBC's television-based national adult literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Agency Role, Basic Skills
Sticht, Thomas G.; McDonald, Barbara A. – 1989
The field of cognitive science (as represented, for instance, by intergenerational literacy programs) offers new ways to think about increasing cognitive abilities, which is particularly important in view of the disappointing outcomes of many intervention programs that do not seem to make their participants more knowledgeable or better thinkers.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Cognitive Ability
Lancaster Univ. (England). – 1987
The National Child Development Study is a longitudinal survey of all people who were born in the week of March 3-9, 1958 in England, Scotland, and Wales--approximately 17,000 people. A project used information collected from 12,500 of these people through interviews in 1981 when they were 23 years old. The project sought to determine (1) what…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Foreign Countries, Functional Literacy
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1987
The 1985-86 Chapter 1 Corrective Reading Program, which provides supplemental individualized instruction in reading and writing skills for eligible nonpublic school students in grades 1 through 12 in New York City, is the subject of this evaluation report. The background of the program, evaluative criteria, findings and recommendations are…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Decoding (Reading), Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Rush, R. Timothy – 1987
The performance-related writing and reading competencies required in most occupations are seldom emphasized in elementary and secondary school education. Performance-related writing may be simplistic, but its composition is more complex--in occupational writing, context, audience assessment, attention to detail, concise clarity, message…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, Expository Writing, Functional Literacy, Job Skills
Harman, David – 1984
The elimination of adult functional illiteracy has been declared a national priority. More than the ability to decipher a given text, functional literacy means the practical application of literacy skills to life in a particular society or group. But this in turn demands that the individual have enough prior knowledge of the surrounding culture…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Cultural Context
Robinson, Margaret – 1985
This report describes the accomplishments of the National Adult Literacy Project, funded by the National Institute of Education from September 1983 to March 1985 as part of the Adult Literacy Initiative. The project's goal--to assemble and report current information on literacy issues--was achieved through three component efforts: information…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Demonstration Programs, Functional Literacy, Information Dissemination
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Khajapeer, M. – Indian Journal of Adult Education, 1974
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Adult Farmer Education, Change Strategies, Developing Nations
Loeffler, Cynthia A.; Martin, Thomas C. – 1982
A study researched the existence of established Adult Basic Education (ABE) curricula for incarcerated adult inmate/students in state correctional education programs, specifically the functionally illiterate. All 50 State Departments of Corrections were surveyed by questionnaire; 44 responded. ABE was a basis for curricula according to 37.6% of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Demography
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