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Direct linkMiller, Brett; McCardle, Peggy; Hernandez, Ricardo – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
Low literacy levels in adult learners pose an educational and public health challenge to practitioners and the scientific community. Increasing demands placed on literacy can limit opportunities in the workplace and access to health-related resources, negatively affecting public health. Current estimates from the National Center for Education…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Public Health, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning
Download full textMovement for Canadian Literacy, 2006
This Winter 2006 issue of "Learners in Action" contains the following articles: (1) Premiers Honour Adult Learners; (2) Learning Difficulties?; (3) Awards; (4) Hats off to Jacques Demers!; (5) What Do You Think?; (6) Meet the Current Learners Advisory Network; and (7) "Learning Edge" is No Ordinary Magazine!.
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Writing Instruction
Pottstown YWCA Adult Literacy Center, PA. – 1995
This report describes a project to develop a tutor training model for teaching adults who manifested signs of learning disabilities. A needs assessment was done by surveying previously trained tutors. Existing adult literacy materials and instructional materials specifically developed for individuals with learning disabilities were reviewed and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
Robinson, Nancy; Selkirk, Betty – 1983
The ARIN Adult Learning Center in Indiana, Pennsylvania conducted a project to develop language arts and consumer mathematics curriculums for O-4 level adult basic education (ABE) students. Using the five knowledge areas of the adult performance levels as established by the University of Texas, (consumer economics, health, occupational knowledge,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Basic Skills, Community Resources
McAlister, Ellen D.; Bickley, A. C. – 1983
Based on a graduate course, this manual was written to help instructors (professional or volunteer) understand and teach beginning adult learners and other adults with learning problems. The manual is organized into seven sections. The first two sections provide background information on the development of the manual and suggest ways that it can…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Monroe County Community Schools Corp., Bloomington, IN. – 1981
A project was conducted to develop and refine an adult basic education (ABE) teaching/learning management system called CUBE (Continuity and Unity in Basic Education). (The CUBE system--a diagnostic/prescriptive system for individualizing competency based learning for students in ABE--provides a flexible and complete system of instruction for ABE…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Competence
Rance-Roney, Judith A.; Ditmars, Jane W. – 1994
This textbook/sourcebook and accompanying trainer's guide, which were issued as part of a project to republish important staff development project reports/materials, are updated and repackaged versions of a staff development curriculum in adult literacy and learning. The first part of the sourcebook contains 20 "keys" or quick overviews…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
