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Direct linkHarrington, Kieran – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2014
iPhones and iPads are bringing significant changes to the way in which people communicate with their families, friends, colleagues and with the outside world, and how they access information, carry out work tasks and interpret and incorporate the non-alphabetic symbols and signs that represent daily realities. Additionally, many primary and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, Adult Basic Education
de Coulon, Augustin; Meschi, Elena; Vignoles, Anna – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2008
A large proportion of the UK adult population has very poor literacy and/or numeracy skills (see the 1999 Moser Report, the 2003 "Skills for Life" Survey and the 2006 Leitch report). In 1999, the Moser report found that approximately 20% of adults in England had severe literacy difficulties, whilst around 40% had some numeracy problems.…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Economically Disadvantaged, Numeracy, Cognitive Tests
