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Direct linkMcKenna, Michael C.; Walpole, Sharon – Guilford Publications, 2008
When the goal is supporting excellent teaching, there is no "one-size-fits-all" approach. This book helps literacy coaches and administrators navigate the many choices involved in developing and fine-tuning a coaching program that offers the best fit for a particular school. The authors draw on current research and their personal experiences in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Pitt Community Coll., Greenville, NC. – 1985
This proposal represents a systematic and research-based effort to revitalize traditional recruiting practices and to establish a new recruitment model for reaching the nontraditional student in North Carolina two-year colleges. It includes activities of and findings from a model adult recruiting project. A project overview includes the objectives…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Advisory Committees, Community Colleges, Marketing
Download full textInstituto Nacional para la Educacion de los Adultos, Mexico City (Mexico). – 1990
This manual is part of a Mexican series of instructional materials designed for Spanish speaking adults who are in the process of becoming literate or have recently become literate in their native language. This document describes the concept of a model for community adult education for the purpose of supporting local educational committees…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Advisory Committees, Community Cooperation
Peer reviewedBroomfield, Christina – Higher Education, 1993
A study applied a human capital model to statistics on part-time adult college/university students in the United Kingdom and finding that part-time students account for approximately 40% of total student numbers of whom 42% are female and that part-time study is of significant benefit to both individuals and society. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Administration, College Outcomes Assessment, College Students
Uncapher, Barbara W.; And Others – 1983
Suggestions for meeting the needs of returning adult students at The Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington Campus, are presented. The suggestions resulted from meetings involving undergraduate adult representatives and faculty organizational officers. Recommendations are offered regarding: orientation, financial aid, book loan fund, the…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Adult Students, Ancillary School Services, Career Counseling
Coates, Sharon, Comp.; Fitzpatrick, Lynne, Comp.; McKenna, Angela, Comp.; Makin, Alison, Comp. – 1995
Australia's National Reporting System (NRS) was developed as a mechanism for reporting the outcomes of adult English language, literacy, and numeracy provision in the country's vocational educational and training system, labor market programs, and the adult and community education sector. This document is intended to explain the NRS to potential…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Competence, Competency Based Education
Nashashibi, Pauline – 2002
This document explores the United Kingdom's developing practice of recognizing adult students' achievement in ways that make flexible use of the learning outcomes methodology, provide a mix of accredited and non-credited work, and are sensitive to the ethos of adult learning. (That ethos is often characterized by adult students' desire for…
Descriptors: Achievement, Achievement Rating, Adult Education, Adult Educators
