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Molek, Carol – 1987
The Tools of the Trade project was undertaken to offer comprehensive job search assistance to adult basic education students in the form of career awareness workshops. The workshops covered the following topics: completing job applications, writing resumes, filling out skill cards, interviewing for a job, analyzing the job market, following up on…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Career Education, Independent Study
Download full textOffice of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1992
This document suggests the following eight model indicators of quality in adult education programs: (1) learners demonstrate progress toward attainment of basic skills and competencies that support their educational needs; (2) learners advance in the program or complete program requirements that allow them to continue their education or training;…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Indicators
Singer, Elizabeth; And Others – 1988
This training manual was developed as a source of information about Competency-Based Adult Basic Education (CBABE) for administrators, counselors, and teachers involved in the implementation of a CBABE program. After section I provides an introduction to Brevard Community College's development of CBABE curricula, section II explains the purposes…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
Norris, Joye A.; Kennington, Paddy – 1992
This book is intended to assist literacy program administrators, coordinators, instructors, and volunteers in the design and implementation of literacy programs for homeless adults. Chapter 1 discusses barriers to instruction when serving homeless adults, including shelter environment, impermanence of location and opportunity, and the effects of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adults
Briney, Margorie; Long, James S. – 1985
This 1984 study (1) estimated the more enduring benefits of a Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) prevocational program for those who completed the program in 1979; and (2) identified the features of the CETA program that completers recalled as having contributed to these benefits. The 18-week CETA prevocational program was offered by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Benefits
Instituto Nacional para la Educacion de los Adultos, Mexico City (Mexico). – 1990
The series "Self-instructional Notes on Social Participation" is a six volume series intended as teaching aids for adult educators. The theoretical, methodological, informative and practical elements of this series will assist professionals in their work and help them achieve greater success. The specific purpose of each notebook is…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
Instituto Nacional para la Educacion de los Adultos, Mexico City (Mexico). – 1990
The series "Self-instructional Notes on Social Participation" is a six volume series intended as teaching aids for adult educators. The theoretical, methodological, informative and practical elements of this series will assist professionals in their work and help them achieve greater success. The specific purpose of each notebook is…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
Alliance, an Association for Alternative Degree Programs. – 1992
This report of a workshop on various aspects of adult learning and education contains the following papers: "Take This Job And Shape It: Using Journal Writing to Enrich Your Professional Life" (David Shallenberger, Phyllis Walden); "Assessing Math Skills of Adult Learners" (Betty Hurley Lawrence); "Using Visual Arts for Cultural Analysis: Adult…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
Center for Literacy, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1998
This document includes the final report of a project to develop a process for preparing adult basic education (ABE) practitioners to use a "work first" instructional model and a practitioner training manual. The report details how four literacy practitioners worked with mentors experienced in teaching work force education to adapt work…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs, Behavioral Objectives
PDF pending restorationCentral 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
Newman, Eugenia; Daniels, Diane – 1994
A project was conducted to increase the retention of African American men in the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council's literacy program. The project's primary objectives were as follows: develop a program in self-esteem, goal setting, and decision making and use it as a "draw" to bring new students into the literacy program; build…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Black Education, Blacks
Dean, Gary J.; Murk, Peter J.; Del Prete, Tony – 2000
This book, which is intended as a resource for individuals and organizations involved in adult and community education, presents guidelines and activities to assist in enhancing organizational effectiveness in adult and community education. The following are among the topics discussed: (1) experiencing professional and organizational development…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning
J. F. Ingram State Technical Coll., Deatsville, AL. – 1985
The "LNR" Program was established at J. F. Ingram State Technical College as an individualized reading program for low-level and nonreaders (LNRs) who are incarcerated at one of four prisons in central Alabama. The program combined the following instructional methods: individual work, group work, instructor/student interaction, lecture,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading
