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Handel, Ruth D. – 1990
An intergenerational literacy program addresses the needs of adult students enrolled in remedial reading classes at a community college. Their classroom behavior marked by passivity or anxiety, these students are usually able to derive the surface meanings of familiar text, but demonstrate little analytic or reflective thinking about what was…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Childrens Literature, Intergenerational Programs
Ast, Harley J. – 1987
The multimedia self-instructional systems approach to reading instruction utilized at Wascana Institute in Canada has helped a growing number of adult learners succeed in their career training courses. The self-paced program involves sequential instruction in perception and conception, focusing on the minimum essential skills assessed by the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Reading Programs, Autoinstructional Aids, Individualized Instruction
Schick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1967
Focusing on expanding fields in junior college and adult reading programs, the 35 articles in this volume were drawn from the sixteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1966. Among the topics discussed in the articles are the following: an interdisciplinary approach to the identification and remediation of severe reading…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Educational Technology
Download full textGriffin, Tom; Songer, Tim – 1988
A project was undertaken at Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC), in Charlotte, North Carolina, to develop, field test, and validate reading courseware for adults that takes into account individual learning styles. Two literacy products were developed and evaluated. The first, the Learning Style Survey (LSS), is an interactive videodisc…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Audiovisual Aids
Greene, Frank P., Ed. – 1972
This is one of two volumes of papers drawn from the twenty-first annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1971. Focusing on junior college and college reading programs and problems, the 40 papers are arranged into the following categories: designs for programs, special admission students, ethnically different students, adult…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Higher Education, Individualized Programs
