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Racle, Gabriel L. – 1979
The emotional and paraconscious characteristics of an adult who is faced with the need to learn to read make the use of the suggestopedic instructional method, which operates below the level of consciousness, attractive. Among learner characteristics to which suggestopedia can be directly applied are integrative and instrumental motivation, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Experiential Learning, Instructional Innovation, Literacy Education
Download full textNorth Carolina State Dept. of Community Colleges, Raleigh.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR CLEANING EVERY PART OF THE HOUSE ARE GIVEN IN OUTLINE FORM WITH PICTURES TO ILLUSTRATE PROCEDURES. FOR EACH JOB A LIST OF SUPPLIES NEEDED, STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS, AND SPECIAL TIPS ARE GIVEN. A PLAN FOR KEEPING A CLEAN HOUSE INCLUDES LISTS OF JOBS TO BE DONE DAILY, WEEKLY, AND MONTHLY. THE SECTION ON HOME SAFETY INCLUDES…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Adult Basic Education, Home Economics, Home Management
Newsom, Ron; Foxworth, Linda – 1980
A study was conducted which focused on specific teaching strategies and their impact on shifting externalized students toward internality (change of locus of control), on completion rate, and on increase in knowledge of math over a three-month period. Eight adult education classes with ninety-two students from the north Texas area participated in…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Educational Research
England, Robert – 1980
This book is both a personal memoir of the author and a history of adult education in Western Canada during the first half of the twentieth century. The memoirs cover Robert England's three years as a teacher of Slawa Rural School (1920-23) in northern Saskatchewan; his cooperation with the Masonic Memorial Scholarship Scheme for fifty teachers in…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators
Havrilesky, C.
Two premises of Federal adult basic education legislation are that grade level completed measures achievement level or at least is significantly and positively related thereto, and that similar economic backgrounds indicate similar educational needs. Results of a 1967-68 New Jersey study, which showed relatively little relationship between grades…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Educational Background, Evaluation
Jahns, Irwin R., Ed.; Brady, Henry G., Jr., Ed. – 1968
The report of the highlights of the Southeastern Adult Basic Education Teacher Training Institute, July 10-28, 1967, presents financial changes in the State and Federal support of basic adult education; pinpoints the essential psychological, physiological, and emotional aspects of adult learning; and attempts to relate teaching techniques to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Curriculum Development, Illiteracy
Peebles, James D. – 1975
The survey, conducted to determine patterns of instructional needs as perceived by adult basic education (ABE) and adult high school (AHS) teachers, attempts to answer three questions: from a broad array of possible instructional competencies, which competencies do teachers (1) perceive as being of the highest priority? (2) feel they have the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Educational Needs, Questionnaires
Beder, Harold W.; Darkenwald, Gordon G. – 1974
In an effort to determine the effectiveness of 309 (b) projects (experimental demonstration projects in Adult Basic Education funded through the Adult Education Act), selected projects were used as the basis for several case studies and evaluated. Project RFD was never intended to be utilized by Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs but instead…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Case Studies, Demonstration Programs, Experimental Programs
Reading Univ. (England). Centre for the Teaching of Reading. – 1974
The directory seeks to list all active Adult Literacy Instruction Programs run by local education authorities in England and Wales. It includes the following information regarding the programs: goals of individual programs, addresses, telephone numbers, responsible persons, a brief program description, and the date of the commencement of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
Dinges, Rodney F. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not adult prison inmates reading below the third-grade level can significantly increase their reading level by the use of a tutor-student teaching method, supplemented by the use of flashcards. The subjects in this study were 10 functionally illiterate adult prison inmates, selected on a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Correctional Education, Individual Instruction, Prisoners
Hays, Dick W.; Hughey, Elizabeth H. – 1976
Designed as an annotated guide, this preliminary catalog highlights and describes 30 promising library projects in 10 states that were originally funded under the Library Services and Construction Act. The description of each program includes a one or two paragraph description and information on users, facilities required, financial requirements,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Catalogs, Disadvantaged, Library Extension
Bartley, Diana E. – 1975
An evaluation of Special Project E-109A, Development of Teaching Aids for Adult Basic Education/English (Second Language) Adult Education Programs, by the project consultant was based on five project visits and bi-weekly communication with the project specialist. Evaluation was directed to an analysis of the basic structure of the teaching packets…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language), Evaluation
Brant, Elaine E. – 1975
The paper states and proves three propositions regarding the usefulness of the ITED (Iowa Tests of Educational Development) in preparing adult basic education students to take the GED tests. The first proposition, that the ITED can be a useful practice test for GED candidates, is supported by the fact that the ITED tests are designed to measure…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Educational Testing, Equivalency Tests, Predictive Measurement
Sierra Conservation Center, Jamestown, CA. – 1974
One of the twelve exemplary programs summarized in the Introduction to Right to Read's "Effective Reading Programs: Summaries of 222 Selected Programs" (CS001934), this program attempts to raise the reading skills of inmates of the Sierra Conservation Center to the level needed for training in conservation work while in prison, or for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Beginning Reading, Correctional Education, Cues
MacFarlane, Tom; Moyle, Donald, Ed. – 1974
More than 50 percent of the world's adult population is unable to read or write at all. Since many of the tutors of adult illiterates have not had training in the teaching of reading, this booklet was written to introduce these tutors to the practical aspects of an area which has a vast literature of its own. The eleven sections in the booklet…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Illiteracy
