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Williams, Nida W. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative case study was designed to explore how master teachers in transfer high schools learn the competencies they perceive are required to engage at-risk students so that they persist and graduate. The study is based on the following assumptions: (1) The requisite teacher competencies can be defined and identified and, in fact,…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, High Schools, At Risk Students, Case Studies
Ziegler, Mary; McCallum, R. Steve; Bell, Sherry Mee – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2009
We obtained data from 124 volunteer instructors in adult literacy, using an instrument developed to assess what the volunteers knew about providing reading instruction to adults. Results showed that volunteers with bachelor's degrees or higher and those who had teacher's certificates were significantly more knowledgeable about providing reading…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Volunteers, Reading Instruction, Credentials