This report and reference booklet is designed to provide adult education supervisors, instructors, and General Educational Development (GED) students and alumni with information to establish GED alumni associations as part of the adult basic education program. The final report details the GED Alumni Stretch and Reach project, which was proposed to…

The purpose of a project was to develop a comprehensive distance learning system for undereducated adults not being served through traditional adult education classroom instruction. Odessa College (Texas) developed and implemented a televised delivery system for General Educational Development that complemented and supplemented existing adult…

To identify characteristics of students in Florida's Early Exit Program (EEP) with respect to their performance in high school, names and General Educational Development (GED) test scores were obtained for all students who passed the GED tests as part of the EEP between January 1, 1981, and May 1, 1983. Four districts were identified that had…

In preparation for adding an essay test to the General Educational Development (GED) test, the GED Testing Service undertook a series of studies to establish (1) whether acceptable reading reliabilities were attainable in decentralized holistic scoring sessions often involving no more than a dozen papers; (2) whether essay readers in a variety of…

This study was designed to measure the impact on the lives of Kentucky adults who were administered the General Educational Development (GED) Test during 1976. The impact is measured in terms of employability, productivity, and responsibility as outlined in the Adult Education Act of 1966, as amended in 1978. Elements of this survey in determining…

This report presents a description and evaluation of the Auxiliary Services Program. This program provided counseling, remedial math and remedial reading instruction, and high school equivalency study to Title I students who were two or more years below grade level. Eleven day and evening centers located in various boroughs in New York…

Due to the small samples and variance of the Tests of General Educational Development (GED) requirements in the reported research, it is difficult to generalize the obtained results in counseling situations. It is the purpose of this study to set up multiple cutoff norms for the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) using the statistical techniques…

This article sets forth the effects upon teachers produced by implementation of a non-graded secondary teaching environment. The data should prove useful as a vehicle for pre-program discussion prior to initiation of non-graded secondary programs, and for sensitizing administrators to the primary personnel reactions and conflicts that a non-graded…

Staff development is needed to acquaint adult basic education (ABE) facilitators with the process of working with adults and with other challenges that confront the field. Challenges include changes in the General Educational Development (GED) test, introduction of computers, and the increasing enrollment of adult functional illiterates. (JOW)

This article explains the research phase of the Adult Performance Level (APL) project, providing a brief history of how the APL life coping skills curriculum and Competency-Based High School Diploma Program evolved from the project's research and national survey of adult functional competency. Focuses on APL programs implemented within a…

A study of relationship between teaching style (measured by Principles of Adult Learning Scale) and student achievement based on teacher assessment involved teachers and students in an adult basic education (ABE) program. Though teaching style and achievement are linked, approach in ABE and English as a second language settings differs from more…

High numbers of high school students are leaving New York City public schools without graduating. Some school officials are encouraging students to leave regular high school programs, despite their being of school age and have the right to receive appropriate literacy, support, and educational services through the public school system. This report…

This supplement to an annotated bibliography describes nearly 100 books that are appropriate for use with adult learners. Some of the titles in this supplement are books best used for independent reading, but most have strong instructional ties. The supplement contains many books that can be useful in General Educational Development (GED)…

Three judges rated General Educational Development (GED) student essays that had been written by nine incarcerated youths. If judge's ratings were not consistent, students would receive a biased average rating. Traditional classical measurement theory computes an intraclass reliability coefficient to determine if judges' ratings are reliable. In…

Looks at programs using the Foxfire model--an experiential, hands-on approach to learning--to serve the following three distinct populations: handicapped, special education students; migrant farmworker youth; and the nation's most recent immigrants. (ERB)