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Download full textCASAS - Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment Systems (NJ1), 2010
The Federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Title II, Adult Education and Family Literacy Act provides funding for states and territories to provide instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL), Adult Basic Education (ABE), and Adult Secondary Education (ASE) to adults in need of these literacy services. California State Budget Act language…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Basic Education, Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
CASAS - Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment Systems (NJ1), 2009
The Federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Title II, Adult Education and Family Literacy Act provides funding for states and territories to provide instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL), Adult Basic Education (ABE), and Adult Secondary Education (ASE) to adults in need of these literacy services. California State Budget Act language…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid, Grants
Torney-Purta, Judith; Barber, Carolyn Henry – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, 2004
Ways of enhancing knowledge of political institutions, processes and positions are the focus of many prescriptions for improving civic education and civic engagement among young people. A recent data source including a rigorously developed test of knowledge, provides an opportunity to empirically compare the performance of students in the United…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Citizenship Education, Civics, Secondary Education
Levine, Peter; Lopez, Mark Hugo – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, 2004
A survey conducted by the Council for Excellence in Government and The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement (CIRCLE) reveals unprecedented information about the content and significance of civics and social studies classes today. Overall, the curriculum and message of history and social studies classes appear to be more…
Descriptors: Politics, Social Studies, Civics, Citizenship Education
Nolin, Mary Jo; And Others – 1997
A study used data from the 1996 National Household Education Survey, Youth Civic Involvement component, to determine how students in grades 6-12 were involved in community service activities and how schools might encourage community service participation and integrate it with classroom learning. Some of the results are as follows: (1) about half…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, School Community Programs
Kleiner, Brian; Chapman, Chris – 2000
Involving U.S. students in community service activities is one of the objectives established under the third National Education Goal for the year 2000, which seeks to prepare students for responsible citizenship. Trends suggest that the percentage of U.S. high school seniors who participated in community affairs or voluntary work in any given year…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Community Services, Educational Assessment, Educational Research
Chapman, Chris; And Others – 1997
A study investigated how differences in student characteristics might affect the relationship between heightened interest in national news and news-seeking behavior. Data were taken from the Youth Civic Involvement component of the 1996 National Household Education Survey. Telephone interviews were conducted with 8,043 students in grades 6 through…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Intermediate Grades, Mass Media Use, News Media
Citizenship and Education in Twenty-Eight Countries: Civic Knowledge and Engagement at Age Fourteen.
Torney-Purta, Judith; Lehmann, Rainer; Oswald, Hans; Schulz, Wolfram – 2001
In 1994 the General Assembly of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) decided to undertake a study on civic education. This volume reports on Phase 2 of the project, which consisted of a test (keyed cognitive items) and a survey (un-keyed attitudinal and behavioral items) administered in each…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitude Measures, Citizenship, Citizenship Education
Fass-Holmes, Barry; And Others – 1996
The Charter School of San Diego (California) began operations in the 1994-95 school year. Its program and facilities previously operated as one of the city's alternative education programs designed to provide individualized support for holistic engagement of students, many of whom enrolled because of difficulties at comprehensive schools. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Charter Schools, Citizenship Education, Discipline
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 2001
This brochure presents highlights from "What Democracy Means to Ninth-Graders: U.S. Results from the International IEA Civic Education Study," a report that analyzes the U.S. results of the 1999 International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) Civic Education Study, Phase 2. The study was designed to assess…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Civics
Rock, Donald A.; Pollack, Judith M. – 1991
The National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) is designed to monitor the transition of a national sample of young adults as they progress from junior to senior high school and then to postsecondary education or the world of work. An in-depth description is provided of the rationale, development, and psychometric properties of the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Citizenship Education, Geography, Grade 8
Rock, Donald A.; And Others – 1995
This report documents the development and validation of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) cognitive test battery. The cognitive test battery assesses growth between grades 8 and 12 in the content areas of reading comprehension, mathematics, science, and history/citizenship/geography. The battery was part of the NELS:88…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Bayesian Statistics, Citizenship Education
