This annotated bibliography lists and describes resources that provide examples of effective programs, strategies, and other information about welfare to help adult basic literacy education practitioners cope with the requirements of new federal welfare reform and welfare-to-work legislation. The publication lists 11 sources of research findings;…

A project explored the complex relationships between "integrated" numeracy and literacy skills, self confidence, and the place of skills, knowledge, and values in the learning process. The focus was on beef producers undertaking training in quality assurance (QA). Analysis of observations of QA process on three case study farms and…

A formative committee conducted a developmental study to produce a program evaluation instrument (PEI) that would be effective in conducting an adult basic education (ABE) program evaluation study at Nicolet Area Technical College (NATC). Five procedures were used to complete this product. First, a literature review was conducted that assisted in…

This directory presents, in narrative form, core information about the operations of approximately 100 Aboriginal literacy programs throughout Canada. To qualify for inclusion in the directory, each program had to offer basic, functional, or advanced literacy training; offer literacy training in English, French, or an Aboriginal language; be…

Intended for teachers of adult literacy, these teaching ideas for the book, "What Jamie Saw," begin with a summary and introductory notes for this book on abuse and its effects on children. Teaching ideas include such suggestions as asking students to write down powerful sentences, to jot notes in their journals about specified units, and to place…

Discusses the content and structure of a computer-based instructional program in reading for disadvantaged adults and describes the design, test materials, procedures, and results of a formative evaluation with 36 pre-GED students in an Illinois Correctional Center. Results support the value of such complete computer-based reading comprehension…

Discusses Bathurst Heights (Toronto) Secondary School's unique daytime program for undereducated adults. Reports 800 adults in a school population of 1,600; 400 of these adults are in mixed-age classes. Notes availability of day care and full-time municipal social worker services. Finds school has rebounded from a severe enrollment decline. (BRR)

The author discusses the importance of using mature, volunteer women tutors to help in improving the reading level of jail trainees. As with the students' responses, empathy, an inner urge, seem to count more than technical know-how in successfully tutoring young men who have missed much of the basic training that has been associated with public…

Israeli soldiers who have not finished elementary school take special classes taught mostly by female volunteers who are not trained teachers. Special problems the teachers confront concerning cultural and class differences, discipline, and motivation are discussed as they are presented in a three-month preparatory course for the teachers. (PP)

Reviews the three-stage participative process used to create and test resources for Adult Basic Education (ABE) staff development in North Carolina. Introduces the 1980 State plan for ABE and its objectives. Describes workshops for program directors and instructors which resulted in staff development handbooks. Explains the evaluation process.…

Advantages of a modular approach to preservice and inservice training of adult basic education teachers are discussed. Features of the "Learning Modules for Adult Educators" being used in Texas are described. (SK)

Readers share information on the use of the uninterrupted silent sustained reading method to change the reading attitudes of adult Native American students and on the use of taped books with high school remedial reading students. (MKM)

This study explored the cognitive style of field dependence-independence (FDI) and its relation to student attrition and performance on the General Educational Development Test and the Test of Adult Basic Education. Resultant correlations are discussed in terms of the usefulness of FDI in assessing the needs of adult learners. (Author/SK)

Defines competency-based adult education as activities providing coping and life skills, functional literacy, mastery learning, external or alternative high school diplomas, and educational credits for life experiences. Discusses activities in relation to federally authorized Adult Basic Education, minimal testing, Adult Performance Level…

India's national adult education program is being planned to bring literacy to its 310 million adult illiterates. The first stage is projected to cover 100 million persons in the 15-35 age group by 1983-84. Problems include motivating institutions and individuals to participate and providing for adequate funding. (MF)