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Roderick, Ryan – Community Literacy Journal, 2013
This study investigates how literacy was constructed at an adult literacy organization's volunteer tutor-training program. By drawing on qualitative analysis of training texts used during training, such as training evaluations, and data gathered from interviews with experienced tutors, it is possible to identify the assumptions about literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Program Evaluation, Interviews, Instructional Materials
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Durgunoglu, A. Y.; Oney, B.; Kuscul, H. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2003
In this paper, we discuss the Functional Adult Literacy Program (FALP) that we have developed in Turkey. FALP, which is taught by volunteer instructors, focuses on individuals who have had very little or no schooling. The two evaluation studies of the first three cohorts of the program indicate that FALP is significantly more effective than the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Adult Reading Programs, Word Recognition, Foreign Countries
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Evangelou, Maria; Sylva, Kathy – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2007
Efforts to improve the educational achievement of children, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, are at the heart of current government policies in the United Kingdom. The Peers Early Education Partnership (PEEP) is an intervention that, since 1995, has worked directly with parents and caregivers of children from infancy to 5 years of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Disadvantaged Youth