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Download full textRussell, Earl B., Comp.; And Others – 1978
The purpose of the workshop reported here was (1) to share and exchange information from a national survey of the status of competency-based adult vocational education instruction and (2) to assist the participants in implementing or expanding competency-based programs. Contents include four groups of workshop presentations. Three are general…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Competency Based Education
College Entrance Examination Board, New York, NY. – 1985
This document contains the agenda for an Administrator's Workshop given by the College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) of the College Board. Included are an update on CLEP activities, a section on reaching out to faculty, and a section on reaching out to adult students. Covered in the update on CLEP activities are results of 1984 workshop surveys…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Advanced Placement Programs
American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1980
Highlights are presented of a national conference conducted to share specific models for community college programs for older adults and to devise financial and political strategies to ensure the continuation of these programs. After discussing the conference design, the report presents a summary of Bentley Lipscomb's keynote address on the…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Career Counseling, Community Colleges, Demography
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). International Inst. for Educational Planning. – 1989
Research conducted in Kenya had two purposes: to describe the literacy program and literacy learners and to determine the literacy skill levels of participants and to what use they are putting those skills. Researchers collected data from 5 districts in Kenya, including information about the characteristics and functioning of the literacy centers,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Developing Nations
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). International Inst. for Educational Planning. – 1990
Research conducted in Tanzania had two purposes: to describe the literacy program and literacy learners and to determine the literacy skill levels of participants and to what use they are putting those skills. Researchers spent a month in each of four villages gaining information about the socioeconomic system, communication, development, the role…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Developing Nations
Healy, Patrick, Ed. – 1982
This report of the Paris conference of the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE) consists of edited versions of all the written reports of the various sessions of the conference, together with a general introduction and other supporting material. The eight chapters of the report contain 31 speeches, policy group working reports,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
Kerner, Claus, Ed.; Odenbrett, Glenn, Ed. – 1986
This collection includes eight papers (authored by Germans) on adult education programs in Cleveland, Ohio, and eight papers (authored by Americans) about adult education programs in the Federal Republic of Germany as well as German and English introductions to the collection. The following papers are included: "Neue Wege in der…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Comparative Education
Alliance, an Association for Alternative Degree Programs. – 1992
This report of a workshop on various aspects of adult learning and education contains the following papers: "Take This Job And Shape It: Using Journal Writing to Enrich Your Professional Life" (David Shallenberger, Phyllis Walden); "Assessing Math Skills of Adult Learners" (Betty Hurley Lawrence); "Using Visual Arts for Cultural Analysis: Adult…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
