In its second year the project had two principal goals: (1) to extend the first year's findings with a study of selected innovative practices in a large variety of urban Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs, and (2) to disseminate findings of the project's first two years to urban ABE directors and selected professors of adult education. A…

Adult Basic Education (ABE) students with either no computer assisted education instruction (CAI) experience (NE group), and with a fifteen-minute introduction to CAI (CAI group) were given a 14-item questionnaire to determine their attitude toward CAI. Agreement or disagreement was elicited for statements comparing CAI to the teacher or other…

At this adult basic education (ABE) administrators' seminar, an Ohio state senator urged educators to become better informed and more effectively involved in political activities affecting public education. The Director of Continuing Education in the Cincinnati Public Schools described forms of cooperation within communities in behalf of ABE. The…

A survey of the participants in the National Summer Institutes for Teacher Trainers in Adult Basic Education held at the University of Colorado in 1966 and 1967, aimed at determining the extent to which institute participants were being employed to provide instructional leadership in local programs. Questionnaires were sent to 114 participants in…

An outcome of a study of adult basic education programs initiated three years ago by the Columbia University Center of Adult Education, the evaluation guide with its step-by-step instructions can be used for both formative and summative evaluations of adult basic education programs. Background research involved in this publication included direct…

A community school funded by ESEA Title III and the Mott Foundation from 1970 through August 1973 is described in the booklet. Serving as the vehicle to bring about greater community involvement and participation, the school provides a program of education for people of all ages by utilizing the facilities and programs of the public school and the…

In order to clearly identify the target population of Federal activities in adult education, the Research Committee gathered State-by-State demographic information from the 1970 U.S. Census. This compilation of over 3,700 separate figures provides a profile of adults relating to an eligible population for a Federal-State-Local partnership program.…

Four tests, the Oral Placement Test, and Oral Production Test Levels I, II and III are designed to measure auditory comprehension, oral production, the ability to ask questions and conversational skills. The instruments are appropriate for use in adult basic education programs. The placement test can be used to place students at various class…

A private agency, Flanner House of Indianapolis, combined efforts with the Federal government, the Indiana State Employment Service, and private industry to provide upward job mobility for undereducated individuals who are either unemployed or underemployed. The project was designed to show that: (1) Private industry is willing to finance an…

A preliminary discussion is presented of the relationship between literacy and rural development in the Tribal Trust Lands (TTL) of Rhodesia. The discussion is comprised of three sections: a consideration of the literacy continuum among the African population of Rodesia; results of a small study of literacy retention in a TTL; and a brief account…

The Counselor-Aide Program is implemented by para-professionals working cooperatively with a certified counselor, in an effort to raise the economic level of the adults in Carroll County, through an improvement in the educational level of achievement. The counselor aides feel that they have been reasonably successful in meeting the objectives as…

The major purpose of the Georgia State Module was to demonstrate and investigate effective recruiting methods for Adult Basic Education (ABE) classes in the Appalachian Region of Georgia. In order to better understand the strengths and limitations of recruiters with differing backgrounds, this project utilized college students, lay persons,…

This report is an attempt to summarize some of the concerns and problems of the Work Incentive Program of Los Angeles. The educational counseling component of the program, Division of Adult Education, has as its major objective to maximize the opportunities of the WIN enrollee, who is encouraged to educationally advance himself vocationally and/or…

Recent studies indicate that Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs are reaching more students and the cost per enrolled has declined, but statistics are not available to reveal the quality of the programs. In four states, ABE has made reported, tested differences in adult reading ability. In New York and Missouri, students gained an average of…

A program is presented which is designed for a prospective student functioning as low as grade four or with gaps in his knowledge at a very low level. The course begins with basic counting with whole numbers, assuming only recognition of Arabic numerals and their order properties. A scope and sequence has been designed to build knowledge and skill…