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Download full textNinke, Diane; Weeks, Linda – 1998
A project was conducted at the Northwest Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE) Resource Center in northwest Ohio to establish workplace education indicators of program quality with specific measures and standards. Research was conducted through a survey of other states to determine their status in the development of workplace…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Quality, Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedPerin, Dolores – Adult Basic Education, 1994
Health care workers in New York City hospitals shaped their workplace basic education program in a number of ways: the union helped design the program; participants served on advisory committees and as student delegates; they evaluated the program; and students developed individualized education plans that were used to set the learning agenda.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Health Occupations, Needs Assessment
Peer reviewedLazar, Meryl K.; Bean, Rita M.; Van Horn, Barbara – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 1998
Describes a workplace literacy project implemented at a hospital with help from a university and a literacy organization. Finds significant changes in all basic skill areas and improvement in job performance, attitude, and self-esteem. Argues that well-designed programs improve employee job performance when program success is closely linked to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Hospital Personnel
Mikulecky, Larry; And Others – 1995
Employers, unions, and government agencies are placing increasing emphasis on evaluation of workplace literacy programs. Because workplace literacy programs are generally short, focused on workplace-specific literacy tasks, and small, the standardized tests that have traditionally been used to assess school programs are inappropriate for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Data Collection, Evaluation Criteria
Gallagher, Penelope – 1991
From April 1990 through September 1991, the Rural Workplace Literacy Project (RWLP) provided migrant and seasonal farm workers from 15 agricultural worksites in California with literacy training. The training, designed to develop reading and job skills, involved 282 enrolled farm workers and 109 nonenrolled class attendants. Of the 13 classes…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Agricultural Laborers, Employer Employee Relationship, Job Skills
Herald Examiner, Los Angeles, CA. – 1989
This packet of materials from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner's English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) workplace literacy program, defunct since the newspaper's closing, contains the following items: an overview of the program; a list of units and subunits; two sample lesson plans; teacher guidelines about evaluation and progress; lists of specific…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, English (Second Language), Lesson Plans, Literacy Education
Fox, Lynn C.; Sticht, Thomas G. – 1974
A functional job-related reading program was developed to cope with literacy problems of Army personnel; the program involves students who work individually on instructional worksheets in six main modules, each designed to teach a specific job-related reading task. This paper presents an overview of background research for the program, which was…
Descriptors: Functional Literacy, Individual Instruction, Instructional Materials, Job Skills
Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical Coll., Orangeburg, SC. – 1995
The VISIONS project, a workplace literacy program held in two manufacturing plants and a regional medical center, was conducted during an 18-month period from July 1, 1993 to December 31, 1994. During the project, staff were hired and trained, task analyses and orientation sessions were held, and tests and curricula were developed. Employees were…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Job Skills, Literacy Education
Riessman, Frank; And Others – 1988
A report on the New York City Central Labor Council-Consortium for Worker Education Workplace Literacy Program documents 15 workplace literacy program activities undertaken by 16 unions. The report has five sections. The first section covers the history and socioeconomic context in which the state-funded program emerged, and the roles of the two…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Consortia, Course Content, English (Second Language)
Mrowicki, Linda; And Others – 1994
A project was conducted to improve the productivity and efficiency of 10 manufacturers by providing workplace literacy instruction to workers lacking basic skills required for their jobs, and to improve the capability of educational programs to meet the basic skill needs of the manufacturing industry by developing an evaluation manual for basic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Evaluation Methods, Guidelines
Catonsville Community Coll., MD. – 1995
A 2-year project was conducted to improve the productivity of the work force through improvement of literacy skills in the workplace by providing instruction to employees in the printing industry in the Baltimore (Maryland) metropolitan area; Carroll County and Charles County, Maryland; and York, Pennsylvania. The project was organized with input…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Curriculum
Mansoor, Inaam – 1993
The final performance report for a national workplace literacy grant-funded project in Arlington County, Virginia, is presented. This 2-year project provided on-site English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL), literacy, and basic skills training to workers in five targeted industries. Partners were the REEP Program of the Arlington Public Schools, the…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, English (Second Language), Food Service
Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI. Coll. of Education. – 1997
Project ALERT (Adult Literacy Enhanced & Redefined through Training) was a 3-year effort to develop and deploy a number of innovative approaches to delivering workplace literacy programs to business partners, including manufacturers and unions. The project designed, developed, and implemented workplace literacy programs tailored to the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Diffusion (Communication), Educational Innovation, Information Dissemination
Models of Excellence: A Review of Ohio's Award-Winning Workplace Literacy Programs. 1996 Supplement.
Baechlin, Dan; Proper, Len – 1996
This document profiles Ohio's seven award-winning workplace literacy programs. The workplace literacy programs described are offered by a mix of urban and rural firms which employ between 85 and 2,323 individuals in a variety of sectors. The workplace literacy programs offered by the following firms are described: Cleveland Track Material; L.J.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Cooperative Planning, Demonstration Programs
Sanford Public Schools, ME. – 1992
An evaluation was conducted of the workplace literacy program developed through a partnership among the Sanford (Maine) Public Schools and three employers. During the project, 859 employees were recruited, tested, evaluated, and counseled, with 340 receiving extensive evaluation and counseling and an Individual Education Plan (IEP). Through…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship
