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Reading and Readability Affect on E-Learning Success in a Fortune 100 Company: A Correlational Study
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Finnegan, Denis Michael Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine the relationship between employees' reading skills, E-learning readability, student learning, and student satisfaction. The Tests of Adult Basic Education (TABE) form 10 Level A instrument evaluated student-reading skills. The Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Index course assessed…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Readability, Reading Skills, Adult Basic Education
Leveraging Workforce Development and Postsecondary Education for Low-Skilled, Low-Income Workers: Lessons from the Shifting Gears Initiative
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Bragg, Debra; Dresser, Laura; Smith, Whitney – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2012
Shifting Gears was launched in 2007 by the Joyce Foundation, a Chicago-based organization focused on improving the quality of life of citizens residing in the Great Lakes region of the United States. The primary goal of Shifting Gears is to increase the number of low-skilled, low-income Midwestern adults who obtain college-level occupational…
Descriptors: Credentials, Labor Market, National Competency Tests, Labor Force Development
Motherboards Cutting Razor Wire: Assessment and Incarcerated Youth
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Minnick, James R. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world. Among those incarcerated are juveniles. However, the higher the education obtained, the less likely it is that those previously incarcerated will reoffend. Legislation such as No Child Left Behind and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act set the structure…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Computer Assisted Testing, Disabilities, Adult Basic Education