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Lopes, Henrique; McKay, Veronica – International Review of Education, 2020
In combating pandemics, more can be gained by changing citizens' behaviours than by relying solely on the medical route. In the current COVID-19 pandemic, the struggle to contain the outbreak and push back new infection figures will ultimately be won by training citizens how to avoid creating secondary transmission chains. The COVID-19 pandemic…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Reder, Stephen – Adult Literacy Education, 2020
In this forum, Stephen Reder argues that adult literacy education needs to be repositioned within a new framework of lifelong and life-wide learning, a framework in which new policies are formulated, programs are designed and evaluated, and research is funded and carried out. To appreciate how much this suggested framework differs from the…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Lifelong Learning, Adult Education
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Fute, Antony; Wan, Xiu-lan; Oubibi, Mohamed; Bulugu, Joseph B. – Journal of Education, 2023
Literacy builds a foundation for further learning and necessitates human capital development that creates a knowledge economy. A clear focus on literacy policies is fundamental in achieving national and international socio-economic targets. In Tanzania, adult literacy growth has been slow, inconsistent, and characterized by regional gaps. A review…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Poverty
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Mortrude, Judy – Adult Literacy Education, 2021
In the final article of the forum, the field of adult basic education has mounted a strong response to COVID-19's disruption of classes and educational practices. As educators begin to think about the long-term consequences of this disruption, it might be useful to consider the ways that these changes and innovations could be built upon. In the…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Basic Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Turuwark Zalalam Warkineh; Abiy Menkir Gizaw; Tizita Lemma Melka; Yeraswork Megersa Bedada; Ermiyas Tsehay Birhanu – Online Submission, 2021
This study report is part of a larger research programme, the Global Research Translation Award: Meeting the SDGs: creating innovative infrastructures and policy solutions to support sustainable development in Global South communities. The University of East Anglia's (UEA) Global Research Translation Award (GRTA) sets out to help tackle health,…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Sustainable Development
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Nienkemper, Barbara; Grotlüschen, Anke – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2019
The present article connects a secondary analysis of quantitative data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) with the theoretical approach of 'literacy practices' and related research results from the so-called New Literacy Studies (NLS) tradition, which follows a cultural practices paradigm. According…
Descriptors: Adults, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Adult Literacy
Ai Leen Choo; Daphne Greenberg; Hongli Li; Amani Talwar – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2023
Stuttering is a disorder that affects about 1% of the population and manifests as speech disfluencies. Reading difficulties and disabilities are commonly found in this population. Nonetheless, speech disfluencies have not been explored in adult struggling readers (ASRs). In the current study, we examined the rate of stuttering in ASRs as well as…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Incidence, Adults, Reading Difficulties
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Ferrara, Steve; Steedle, Jeffrey T.; Frantz, Roger S. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2022
Item difficulty modeling studies involve (a) hypothesizing item features, or item response demands, that are likely to predict item difficulty with some degree of accuracy; and (b) entering the features as independent variables into a regression equation or other statistical model to predict difficulty. In this review, we report findings from 13…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Test Items, Item Response Theory
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Ng, Shukhan; Payne, Brennan R.; Liu, Xiaomei; Anderson, Carolyn J.; Federmeier, Kara D.; Stine-Morrow, Elizabeth A. L. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2020
Little is known about conceptual integration processes and their contributions to memory representations that are constructed in sentence comprehension among adults with underdeveloped literacy skills. We measured word-by-word reading time to examine variation of responsiveness to demands of lexical and conceptual processing during sentence…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Concept Formation, Sentences, Reading Comprehension
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Dimmick, Michael – Community Literacy Journal, 2020
In this article, I take up the underrecognized and almost unstudied literacy work of Maria Varela, a Latinx Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) staff member in charge of developing literacy materials for African Americans in the South during the 1960s. I analyze the use of community activism in the multimodal literacy materials that…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Activism, Instructional Materials, African Americans
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Reder, Stephen; Gauly, Britta; Lechner, Clemens – International Review of Education, 2020
"Practice engagement theory" (PET) posits that individuals' literacy proficiencies develop as a by-product of their engagement in everyday reading and writing practices and, reciprocally, that literacy proficiencies affect levels of engagement in reading and writing practices. This suggests that literacy training which increases…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Numeracy, Learner Engagement, Adult Students
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Duncan, Sam; Freeman, Mark – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2020
While much is written about reading aloud to children, and as a teaching tool, far less is known about the oral reading that adults do at home, at work or in the community. This article presents the results of a national survey into whether, what, how and why adults across Britain may read aloud rather than in silence. Analysing data from 529…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Reading Aloud to Others, Oral Reading
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Gal, Iddo; Grotlüschen, Anke; Tout, Dave; Kaiser, Gabriele – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2020
This survey paper examines selected issues related to the intersection of three broad scholarly areas: "numeracy," "adult education," and "vulnerability." Numeracy encompasses the ways in which people cope with the mathematical, quantitative, and statistical demands of adult life, and is viewed as an important outcome…
Descriptors: Numeracy, At Risk Persons, Adult Literacy, Informal Education
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Krenzke, Tom; Mohadjer, Leyla; Li, Jianzhu; Erciulescu, Andreea; Fay, Robert; Ren, Weijia; Van de Kerckhove, Wendy; Li, Lin; Rao, J. N. K. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
The Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is a multicycle survey of adult skills and competencies sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The survey examines a range of basic skills in the information age and assesses these adult skills consistently across participating…
Descriptors: Adults, International Assessment, Adult Literacy, Competence
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Antonio Byrd – College Composition and Communication, 2020
In the past decade, computer programming has been called the new literacy necessary for everyday life. However, discussion on democratizing coding literacy can too often center the experiences of K-12 learners and undergraduates, leaving adult learners' experiences with coding literacy unexamined. If employers come to value computer programming as…
Descriptors: African American Students, Programming, Adult Students, Social Mobility
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