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Direct linkHannon, Rebekah – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2022
It is no secret that many adult learners who enter GED® preparatory programs across the country experienced hardship and difficulty in K-12 schools. Often, many of these same students had to battle with learning disabilities such as ADD/ADHD, making school and learning an even more challenging task. Learning and concentration difficulties are…
Descriptors: Equivalency Tests, High School Equivalency Programs, Test Preparation, Adult Students
Cotsworth, Vickie; O'Hara, Katha – 1984
Project LIFTS (Learning Improvement through Teaching Strategies) was designed to serve adult basic education (ABE) students enrolled at Johnson County Community College (Kansas) who are diagnosed as having a specific learning disability. These students enrolled in Basic English, a pre-General Educational Development Test preparation class, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Grammar, High School Equivalency Programs, Inservice Teacher Education
Peer reviewedWestberry, Susan J. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1994
This literature review considers instructional and testing strategies for General Education Development (GED) adult students with learning disabilities. The GED test is described, and specific instructional strategies from the literature are identified for the areas of writing skills, science, social studies, literature and art, and mathematics.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Equivalency Tests, High School Equivalency Programs
Mellard, Daryl; Scanlon, David – Adult Basic Education: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Adult Literacy Educational Planning, 2006
A strategic instruction model introduced into adult basic education classrooms yields insight into the feasibility of using direct and explicit instruction with adults with learning disabilities or other cognitive barriers to learning. Ecobehavioral assessment was used to describe and compare instructor-learner interaction patterns during learning…
Descriptors: Feasibility Studies, Adult Basic Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Learning Disabilities
