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Adamson, Edith – 1966
The 1,024,785 people who reported four or less grades of schooling in the 1961 Canadian Census point up the paradox of a society where free compulsory education to age 16 is assumed to mean everyone will at least complete elementary school. To understand these people as individuals, all available census data on these educationally deficient adults…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, American Indians, Children, Educational Needs

Correctional Service of Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1992
This 1991-92 report for correctional education in Canada provides analysis as well as statistical information for education programs provided during the fiscal year. A national overview contains data dealing with effectiveness based on participation, efficiency based on student/teacher ratio, and efficiency based on cost per full-time equivalent…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Colleges, Correctional Education
Barnes, Bruce – 1978
Individual assessment of students of English as a second language is advocated. Based on a model used by Pearson, four language assessment areas are outlined: the semantic base in a first language, the syntax of the first language, the lexical items "shared" by the two languages, and the number and complexity of the phonemic elements in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, Educational Background, Elementary Secondary Education