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Download full textComprehensive Adult Student Assessment System, San Diego, CA. – 1996
A study provided accurate and reliable norms that reflected the reading and math performance levels of Iowa's youth and adults engaged in work force preparation and employment training for basic skills. The study population included 819 participants from the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and Iowa's Job Opportunities and Basic Skills programs…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Education Work Relationship
Venezky, Richard L.; Sabatini, John P.; Brooks, Christine; Carino, Christine – 1996
Three case studies in adult literacy learning were conducted, with focus on instructional and policy issues. They came out of programs that, by state mandate, focus instruction around component skills through diagnostic tests, worksheets, and mastery tests. In Case 1, a learner managed to attend an adult basic education program regularly and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 1988
California's welfare reform program, Greater Avenues for Independence (GAIN), assigned the state's community colleges a major role in promoting financial self-sufficiency among welfare recipients by equipping them with marketable vocational skills. A study was conducted to determine the nature and amount of involvement of the community colleges in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Job Training, Management Information Systems
The 1990 Perkins: Raising the Academic and Occupational Achievement of Women and Girls. TASPP Brief.
Coyle-Williams, Maureen; Maddy-Bernstein, Carolyn – TASPP Brief, 1992
Changes in the U.S. economy have increased the number of 25 to 54 year old women in the work force to about 74 percent. However, most of these women are segregated in low-wage jobs. Women often fall into those jobs because of sex-stereotyped vocational education enrollment and gender-related barriers in education and in their family and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Compliance (Legal), Educational Needs
Stickney, Eric M.; Alamprese, Judith A. – 2001
A process study was conducted between 2000-2001 in order to gauge the progress of 98 Connecticut institutions that received state school-to-career (STC) grants. Progress was measured against national averages. The following were among the findings: (1) grantees made significant progress in implementing fundamental STC components, such as career…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Career Academies, Career Awareness
