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Download full textBixler, Brett; Askov, Eunice N. – 1988
A study examined the use of the Penn State Adult Literacy Courseware, which teaches sight vocabulary to beginning adult readers, in a volunteer tutoring situation with three male and two female unemployed adults whose average grade level in reading was 1.1. All students were white, their average age was 37, and the highest grade any of them had…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction
Moore, Kimberly A.; Askov, Eunice N. – 1989
A 6-month study examined the attitudes of older, low-literate adults toward using computers to learn to read and tried to determine the effectiveness of Penn State Adult Literacy Courseware for beginning readers with older, low-literate adults at a community-based senior center. The students were 10 black adults, aged 66 to 86 and educated at the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Attitude Change, Basic Skills
Charleston, G. Mike; And Others – 1989
A project was conducted to develop two evaluation designs for computer-assisted instructional (CAI) packages used in the remediation of basic skills in Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs. Information was gathered from a literature review identifying principal factors and issues germane to the evaluation design; site visits, interviews,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation
Peer reviewedKleinmann, Howard H. – Modern Language Journal, 1987
Study of the reading achievement of nonnative speakers of English enrolled in a basic skills college reading course indicated that those students receiving computer-assisted instruction (CAI) made higher reading achievement gains than students not receiving CAI. An annotated list of CAI reading software is included. (CB)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, English (Second Language)
McDermott, Cecil W. – 1985
This report focuses on research and development activities related to the 1983-85 Instructional Microcomputer Project for Arkansas Classrooms (IMPAC), under the supervision of the Arkansas Commission on Microcomputer Instruction. The report includes five major sections: (1) research findings that relate to achievement levels in mathematics,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction
Swan, Karen; And Others – 1989
The Computer Pilot Program of the Division of Computer Information Services of the New York City Board of Education was designed to investigate the claim that comprehensive computer-based instruction (CBI) might best be used to improve the basic skills of educationally disadvantaged students. This ongoing project is designed to identify…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Patterns, Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction
Willis, Jean H. – 1994
The Meridian Partnership is a cooperative program established in 1992 by Meridian Community College (MCC), in Mississippi, and Peavey Electronics Corporation to provide expanded workplace literacy instruction to Peavey employees and to perform job analyses to develop customized mathematics and reading courseware. Hardware, software, classroom…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Community Colleges
Gregory, Margaret P., Ed.; Daniel, Wanda, Ed. – 1987
The following papers are included in this yearbook: "Projections and Implications of Social, Economic, and Demographic Changes for Business Education" (Daggett, Branigan); "Preparing Students for Career Changes" (Wells); "Human Relations Skills for the Changing Office" (Harvey); "Integrating Business Education Technology into the Elementary…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Business Education, Business Education Teachers, Career Change
Lashof, Judith R. – 1992
The Vermont Institute for Self Reliance (VISR) conducted a Basic Educational Skills for Training (BEST) program, a national demonstration project in workplace literacy, from April 1990 to March 1992. BEST provided learner-centered, context-based literacy instruction onsite, on company time, at two General Electric (GE) Aircraft Engines Rutland…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Basic Skills
Los Angeles Unified School District, CA. Div. of Adult and Occupational Education. – 1990
The Working Smart workplace literacy project was sponsored by a public school district and several profit and nonprofit companies and conducted for the hotel and food industry in the Los Angeles area. Literacy instruction was merged with job requirements of the customer service job classifications. Videodisc courseware was developed, as were…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Communication Skills
