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Ouellette-Schramm, Jennifer R. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2016
Academic language is a challenging yet increasingly important skill for Adult Basic Education/English as a Second or Other Language learners. Related to academic language learning is an adult's developmental perspective. Developmental perspectives have been shown to vary in adulthood and shape qualitatively distinct ways of reasoning and learning…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Adult Basic Education
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Binder, Katherine S.; Snyder, Melissa A.; Ardoin, Scott P.; Morris, Robin K. – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2011
This study examined the reliability and validity of administering Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) to adult basic education (ABE) students. Ninety ABE participants were administered DIBELS measures, the Woodcock-Johnson III Broad Reading (WJ III BR) measures, and four orthographic ability tests. Since ABE students are a…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
National Institute for Literacy, 2001
This issue of "EFF Voice" focuses on current research and development efforts to create an assessment framework for the Equipped for the Future (EFF) Content Standards. As in all earlier phases of EFF R&D, this work engages practitioners in the field, as well as researchers and other technical advisors, as partners in the development…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Tout, Dave; Schmitt, Mary Jane – Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 2002
In their chapter on numeracy, the authors begin by exploring the many terms used to describe the learning of mathematics by adults. They discuss the relationship between the terms "mathematics" and "numeracy" and explain why numeracy--making meaning with numbers and mathematical processes--is the term they chose for their…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Numeracy, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning