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Download full textWashington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to describe basic skills students in relation to their participation in basic skills and their success in transitioning to college-level classes, and the momentum they gain towards college success from this participation. In the period of time covered by the data used for this analysis, 24 colleges offered I-BEST…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Technical Institutes, Academic Achievement, Basic Skills
Hensler, Vicki – 1976
This paper describes the Adult Performance Level (APL) project, an alternative to external high school diplomas such as the General Educational Development (GED) test. Based on the need for "functional literacy" or "functional competency," the program teaches basic skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening, communication,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Career Exploration
Peer reviewedWhitney, Douglas R. – Adult Learning, 1991
The General Educational Development Tests can be used to place adult basic education students for study, to measure progress achieved, to enable students to qualify for postsecondary education, and to evaluate program effectiveness. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, High School Equivalency Programs, Program Evaluation
Muir, Mike – Education Partnerships, Inc., 2004
There is no one magical, quick fix solution to the dropout problem. The problem is complex and requires a complex array of solutions. Dropouts have dissimilar characteristics and therefore need different kinds of programs that respond to their individual circumstances and needs. Programs, to be effective, need to provide one-on-one intensive…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Dropouts, Experiential Learning, Dropout Rate
Branson, Robert K. – 1992
Technology transfer, for purposes of this paper, refers specifically to the importing of a methodology from one setting to another in order to meet previously unmet needs. The Job Skills Education Program (JSEP), a computer-based functional basic skills curriculum originally developed for the U.S. Army, has been "transferred" to the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Basic Skills, Career Information Systems
Colorado Community Coll. and Occupational Education System, Denver. – 1992
This volume, part of a series of eight curriculum guides compiled by the Colorado Workplace Learning Initiative: 1991-92, contains two courses: workplace literacy for limited English proficient (LEP) persons and a General Educational Development Programs (GED)/English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) tutorial with the Adult Literacy Network (ALN), a…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Curriculum Guides, English (Second Language)
Manzella, Louis A. – 1991
A practicum aimed to improve the basic literacy skills of juvenile delinquents in a county jail by using relevant experiences as the basis of learning. Two corollary aims were to increase the number of high school diplomas generated through the General Educational Development (GED) test, and prepare students to function in the outside world.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Correctional Education, High Risk Students, High School Equivalency Programs
Katz, Cynthia L.; Padia, William L. – 1982
In 1975 California became the first state to offer an "early exit" proficiency test from high school to persons 16 years of age or older (California law normally requires young persons to attend school until they reach 18 or graduate regularly from high school). More than 87,000 persons have passed the early exit examination; a pass rate…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Educational Attainment, Equivalency Tests
Neal, Derek – 1996
A study attempted to identify low-wage workers in the United States by providing a statistical portrait of all workers who made less than $6.25 per hour in 1993. Data for the analysis were gathered from a cross-section of the Merged Outgoing Rotation Group File--Current Population Survey (CPS) for 1993 and panel data from the National Longitudinal…
Descriptors: Adults, Basic Skills, Employment Problems, Females
New York State Education Dept. Albany. Office for the Education of Children with Handicapping Conditions. – 1982
Methods of providing public instruction to incarcerated school-aged youths are briefly addressed in this pamphlet. The legal responsibility of local school districts to locate, identify, and provide services to youths awaiting or serving sentence is outlined. Educational programs that are available for youths in jail and that directly parallel…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Basic Skills, Correctional Education
Gilpin, Mariellen O. – 1982
The question of what happens when a prison adds PLATO computer-based education to its school program is addressed in this paper describing the PLATO Corrections Project (PCP), which grew out of a need to accommodate students too advanced for adult basic education classes and not well trained enough to survive in high school equivalency, or GED,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction
Walker, Sharon M.; And Others – 1981
A study was conducted among adults enrolled in adult basic education (ABE) General Educational Development (GED) courses to determine their perceptions of the impact of the ABE/GED programs on their employment/economic position, skill and knowledge acquisition, community involvement, attitudinal changes, personal relationships, and continuing…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Daviau, Kathie; And Others – 1993
Based on research and teacher experience, this resource guide contains teaching methods and activities that teachers can use in teaching mathematics to adult basic education and General Educational Development students. The following eight sections are included: (1) an alternative method for teaching percents; (2) unit conversion or dimensional…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Educational Resources, High School Equivalency Programs
Kaplan, David; Venezky, Richard L. – 1993
What can employers assume about the literacy skills of General Educational Development (GED) program graduates? A subsample of 1,012 young adults, aged 21 to 25, selected from the Young Adult Literacy Survey (YALS) was used to study this question. The sample consisted of all Caucasians, African-Americans, and Hispanics in the following categories:…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Dropout Characteristics
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. Test Collection. – 1991
The 146 tests described in this bibliography include measures of expressive language, language development, articulation, language or communication problems, morpheme development, receptive skills, language proficiency, and social-communication skills. Types of tests include achievement, aptitude, screening, and diagnostic instruments. Various…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adult Basic Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Skills
