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Bennett, Barbara K.; And Others – 1993
The Youth Work Skills (YWS) program was developed to help economically disadvantaged, out-of-school, high school-aged youth with reading abilities at or below the fifth-grade level become job ready. In 1992-93, YWS served 236 participants at 7 sites throughout New York (two sites each in Brooklyn and Buffalo and sites in the Bronx, Rochester, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Annual Reports, Comparative Analysis
Daines, James R.; And Others – 1995
The Minnesota Defense Conversion Adjustment Project was initiated in 1993 with funding provided through the U.S. Department of Labor's Defense Conversion Adjustment Program to help workers at a Minnesota defense plant make the transition from assembler and related production classifications to machinists and other positions requiring specific job…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills, Demonstration Programs
Tubtimtong, Wanpen – 1995
A study at Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), in response to administrator and employer concerns about the quality of English second language instruction, investigated aspects of language program design. Concerns had been expressed about the level of English language skills among science and engineering graduates. The survey consisted of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Second Language Programs, Course Content, Curriculum Design
National Literacy Secretariat, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1989
Census data, enrollment statistics, and selected studies/reports regarding adult literacy and literacy education in British Columbia (Canada) were examined to determine the nature and scope, need for, and cost of literacy activities and programs in British Columbia. According to 1986 census data, 17% of British Columbia's adult population lack…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Agency Cooperation, Community Colleges
Brown, James Dean – 1995
A systematic approach to second language curriculum development is outlined, enumerating the phases and activities involved in developing and implementing a sound and effective language program. The first chapter describes a system whereby all language teaching activities can be classified into approaches, syllabuses, techniques, exercises, or…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Check Lists, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
McDonnell, John; And Others – 1996
This text is intended to provide new and practicing professionals with an introduction to the strategies necessary to support the transition of students with moderate and severe disabilities from school to community life. It offers recommendations for designing and implementing middle school, high school, and post-high school programs, addressing…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Curriculum Development
Blackhawk Technical Coll., Janesville, WI. – 1996
This document, which is designed for practitioners involved in the vocational education/rehabilitation of incarcerated adults, contains materials to facilitate replication of the Rock County Education and Criminal Additions Program (RECAP), a comprehensive, integrated training/rehabilitation program that was developed and implemented through the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Advisory Committees
Phillips, Terry; And Others – 1996
England's preregistration undergraduate degree in nursing and midwifery programs were subjected to a comprehensive evaluation that included the following data collection activities: in-depth field studies of 26 of 32 three- and four-year undergraduate nursing and midwifery programs; individual interviews with 129 lecturers, 54 students, 52…
Descriptors: Accountability, Allied Health Occupations Education, Case Studies, Clinical Experience
Truschel, Jack; Kerrick, Joyce – 1995
A project was conducted to determine the need for and to create a distance learning-based staff development program for adult literacy instructors throughout Pennsylvania. Each of Pennsylvania's 306 adult literacy programs was sent a survey regarding their staff members' access to and knowledge about distance learning technology. Of the 100…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
Ntiri, Daphne Williams, Ed. – 1996
This document contains an evaluation handbook for adult literacy programs and feedback from/regarding the evaluation instruments developed during the project titled Adult Literacy and Evaluation Research Team (also known as Project ALERT), a two-phase project initiated by the Detroit Literacy Coalition (DLC) for the purpose of developing and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Black Education, Blacks
Baldus, Lorayne – 1997
This report describes phase VI of the Equity Staff Development project, an ongoing project to achieve equity and diversity at Wisconsin technical colleges by creating an institutional climate supporting achievement by all students. Among the project's major activities and outcomes are the following: the existing train-the-trainer format of peer…
Descriptors: Action Research, Attitude Change, Comparative Analysis, Diversity (Student)
Bakke-Seeck, Sigvor; And Others – 1997
Because a growing proportion of the world's working population is in the informal sector (in work areas generally outside the sphere of state protection), planners of vocational training for adults must pay closer attention to those concepts of teaching and learning that have relevance for the informal sector, and they must develop strategies for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Apprenticeships, Basic Skills
Delaney, Anne Marie – 1997
This paper reviews the first two years of a model program-evaluation case study which is intended to show: (1) how program evaluation can contribute to academic and professional degree programs; (2) how qualitative and quantitative techniques can be used to produce reliable measures for evaluation studies; and (3) how the role of the institutional…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Case Studies, Curriculum Evaluation, Degrees (Academic)
Falk, Ian, Ed.; Penson, Margaret, Ed. – 1996
This book contains eight papers reporting research projects that were conducted by adult language, literacy, and numeracy practitioners with funding provided through one-time scholarships to Tasmanian students in the field of adult language and literacy. The following papers are included: "Foreword" (Ian Falk); "Preface"…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
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Central Intermediate Unit 10, Pleasant Gap, PA. – 1995
This document includes a report on Project Tune-Up, which was conducted to update Project Prepare, a program to help Pennsylvania adult learners prepare for business school entrance examinations, the PSB [Pennsylvania State Board]-Aptitude for Practical Nursing examination, and college placement examinations. The report describes how the Project…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adult Students
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