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Peer reviewedKnell, Suzanne – Adult Learning, 1995
Offers step-by-step guidelines for creating effective team work in a workplace basic skills program, including preplanning, determining worker skills, developing curriculum, evaluating, and reporting the results. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship, Program Development
Taylor, Maurice C.; And Others – Learning (Canada), 1992
Business, labor, and education representatives from Canada and the United States exchanged positions on workplace literacy. Discussed were the need for a consumers' guide to workplace literacy, labor's stake in literacy, educators' negotiations with businesses in providing services, and program evaluation. (JOW)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, School Business Relationship
Peer reviewedAskov, Eunice N. – Adult Learning, 1992
Points out that, to keep the work force up to date, business, industry, and labor groups are inviting adult basic educators to design and implement retraining programs at the worksite. Provides suggestion for designing custom-made basic skills instruction using work-related materials. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Handy, Charles; And Others – Adults Learning (England), 1994
"Foreword" (Handy); "Creda's Vocational Training Scheme" (Bradley); "IBM: Learning for Life" (Stevenson); "Personal Development at Sainsbury's" (Deaves); "Ford Employee Development and Assistance Programmes" (Moore); "Hotpoint North Wales" (Jones); "Derbyshire Employee Development…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning
Download full textJurmo, Paul – 1993
Basic issues in workplace education evaluation can be structured into five discussion questions. The first is who wants to know what information for what purpose. The "who" constitutes the program's stakeholders both at and beyond the program level. Further inquiry is then needed to determine what kind of information these stakeholders typically…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Program-Based Research Special Interest Group, London (Ontario). – 1993
This publication contains nine articles about the process of doing research by literacy practitioners and volunteers in several areas of the Ontario (Canada) literacy field. "Implementing a Workplace Program: A Look Back" (Maria Ioannou-Makrakis) describes the process followed and the learning outcomes from planning, implementing, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Sticht, Thomas G. – 1999
This report provides information on design and evaluation of workplace literacy programs (WLPs) to improve work force readiness and an overview of concepts about the nature, uses, and abuses of standardized tests in program evaluation and accountability. Chapter 1 takes a sociohistorical and sociopolitical perspective in discussing the knowledge…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Educational Finance, Educational Objectives
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1994
These Congressional hearings contain testimony regarding options for restructuring the federal employment and training system. Representatives of the following agencies and organizations provided testimony at the hearings: National Commission on Employment Policy; Health, Education and Human Services Division, Education and Employment Issues, U.S.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness
