Download or read book An Assessment of the Federal Initiative in the Area of Adult Literacy written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adult Literacy and New Technologies written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology offers a promising alternative to the labor-intensive, tutorial-based teaching that makes up the bulk of today's literacy training. This technology, which includes multimedia (speech, video, and graphics), and telecommunications, offers new hope to those who have failed in paper-&-pencil educational activities. The report estimates that at least 35 million adults have difficulties with common literacy skills. Over 80 charts, tables and photos. Glossary.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adult Illiteracy written by Peter Giordano and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adult Literacy and New Technologies written by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment and published by [Washington, D.C.?] : Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress. This book was released on 1993 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Office of Technology Assessment reviewed the nation's literacy problem and the current and potential impact of using technologies in adult literacy programs. Data were collected from 2 workshops, 155 contributors and reviewers, 60 existing literacy programs, and 6 contractor reports. The information is summarized in this eight-chapter report. Chapter 1 is a summary and outline of policy issues and options. Chapter 2 examines the changing nature of literacy, the demographics of adult literacy, and the need for literacy education. The special needs of adult learners and the role of technology in meeting them is discussed in Chapter 3. Chapters 4 and 5 describe the existing system of literacy education and the federal role in it. Promising roles for technology in improving literacy education are outlined in Chapter 6. Chapter 7 deals with access/barriers to technology use in existing literacy programs, and Chapter 8 assesses the future role of technology in literacy education. Appendixes include the following: a list of the report's boxes, figures, and tables; information on major federal adult literacy/basic skills programs and key coordination provisions in literacy legislation; a glossary and list of acronyms; and lists of the study's reviewers and contributors. (MN)
Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jump Start written by Forrest P. Chisman and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chairman s Report on Achievements of the Committee on Education and Labor During the First Session of the 100th Congress and the Job Yet to be Done written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legislative Calendar written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Equipped for the Future written by Sondra Gayle Stein and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessing Literacy written by Anne Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To satisfy federal requirements, the National Center for Education Statistics and the Division of Adult Education and Literacy planned a nationally representative household sample survey to assess the literacy skills of the adult population of the United States, to be conducted by the Educational Testing Service with the assistance of Westat, Inc. This report describes the development of the National Adult Literacy Survey framework, the development of the background questionnaire, the development of simulation tasks, state adult literacy surveys, and participants in the development process. Results from the survey will provide policymakers and others with information on the condition of literacy in the United States. The field test was conducted in 1991, and the main data collection took place in 1992 with a sample of 14,900 adults aged 16 years and older living in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Black and Hispanic households were oversampled to ensure reliable estimates of their literacy proficiencies. Results will describe the literacy skills demonstrated by the total adult population as well as by adults comprising various sub-groups and will characterize these skills in terms of demographic and personal background information. Seven tables present information about the samples. An appendix of sample tasks contains some of the prose, document, and quantitative tasks adults were asked to complete. (SLD)
Download or read book Investing in People written by United States. Department of Labor. Commission on Workforce Quality and Labor Market Efficiency and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Annual Review of Adult Learning and Literacy written by John Comings and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2001-07-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an encompassing review that addresses all aspects ofliteracy (reading, numeracy, and technological literacy, forexample) with a global perspective. It connects the objectives ofliteracy education with broader areas of social welfare, includinghealth, employment and political and economic empowerment. The second volume in a new annual series, this unique publicationfor practitioners in the field of adult learning and literacycollects in one yearly volume the best new knowledge and practiceadvances identified by the prestigious, Harvard-based andfederally-funded literacy center, NCSALL. A single, "user-friendly"source for information on best practices in the field of adultlearning & literacy. The editors' introduction in each volume covers news from the worldof policy and research, while six distinguished writers andpractitioners contribute articles on the most pressing topics inadult literacy. Each volume also includes annotated reviews of thebest books and key journal articles published in the past year.
Download or read book Conflicting Paradigms in Adult Literacy Education written by George Demetrion and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a historical overview of adult literacy theory, policy, practice, and research from the mid-1980s to the present. The main focus is a descriptive analysis of three distinctive schools of literacy: the Freirean-based participatory literacy movement grounded in oppositional politics and grass-roots community activism; the British-based New Literacy Studies that focuses on the ways in which diverse students utilize various literacy practices in their daily lives; and the U.S. federal government's focus on functional literacy linked to a 45-year policy emphasis on workforce readiness. These three schools of thought lead to substantially different implications over such critical areas as curriculum, assessment and accountability, and the socio-cultural role of literacy, policy, and political culture, which are discussed throughout the chapters of the book. This discussion includes a chapter on research traditions that closely parallels these perspectives on literacy education. Demetrion argues that unless values grounded ultimately in political culture emerge, it is exceedingly unlikely that the adult literacy field will be able to move from its current marginalized status toward that of achieving the level of public and policy legitimacy many believe it needs for its long-term institutional flourishing. It is argued that any settlement of this issue must be accomplished in the field of practice rather than the ground of theory, even as theoretical insight can help to frame the issues. Conflicting Paradigms in Adult Literacy Education: In Quest of a U.S. Democratic Politics of Literacy speaks to a wide audience, including not only the adult literacy community, but anyone interested in educational theory, practice, policy, research traditions, or political culture, and more fundamentally, in their intersection. Given the breadth of the topics covered, as well as the broad scope of the argument, the book is also meant for those who would like to gain a useful perspective on contemporary U.S. culture, through the window of these conflicting tensions within the field of adult literacy education.
Download or read book Adult Literacy Research and Development written by Judith Alamprese and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literacy and health outcomes written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
