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Download full textCenter for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2006
Nearly two decades of research has taught some powerful lessons about how to design and implement meaningful and effective professional development for teachers. This newsletter examines the characteristics of high-quality professional development and offers some suggestions for improving its impact and effectiveness. For reform efforts centered…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Adult Learning, Program Effectiveness
Direct linkDrago-Severson, Eleanor – Teachers College Press, 2004
This book offers a new and promising way to support adults in Adult Basic Education (ABE) and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) programs specifically, and learners in adult education, in general. Applying renowned Harvard University psychologist Robert Kegan's constructive-development theory, Drago-Severson depicts an in-depth…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Program Design, Literacy, Work Environment
Van Duzer, Carol H.; Berdan, Robert – Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1999
This chapter seeks to provide the field of education for adult English speakers of other languages--at local, state, and national levels--with a timely overview of the state of assessment in adult English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) programs in the United States. It also seeks to provide a brief description of assessment reform…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Standardized Tests, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Florida State Legislature, Tallahassee. Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability. – 2002
The adult general education programs administered by the Division of Workforce Development in Florida's Department of Education were subjected to a justification review. To assess the programs' performance, the number of literacy completion points (LCPs) earned by each program and system and the number of LCPs earned per enrollee were analyzed.…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Accountability, Adult Education, Adult Learning
National Inst. of Corrections (Dept. of Justice/LEAA), Washington, DC. – 2000
During fiscal year 1999, the Office of Correctional Job Training and Placement (OCJTP) conducted numerous activities related to its primary functions, which are as follows: (1) coordinate federal departments' and agencies' efforts related to correctional job training and placement; (2) provide training to develop staff competencies needed by state…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role
Gray, Fred, Ed. – 2002
This document contains 12 papers about lifelong learning in rural communities in Great Britain. The papers, which are intended for lecturers, tutors, and guidance professionals but may also prove useful to organizations providing lifelong learning and policymakers, include conceptual tools as well as empirical case studies documenting lifelong…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
