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Download full textMississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Philadelphia. – 1992
This document contains the final performance report, evaluation, and curriculum from a program that provided basic literacy instruction for employees of Chahta Enterprises in Mississippi. The final report describes development of curriculum materials that matched the reading and math tasks of production and quality control jobs; reading and math…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, American Indians, Behavioral Objectives
Texas State Technical Coll., Waco. – 1992
A project was conducted to determine if interactive video programs could produce positive results in literacy programs. During the project, staff from a technical college developed a task analysis, curriculum, and evaluation measures for the training of facilities maintenance workers in mathematical concepts. From this activity, an instructional…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Innovation, Educational Technology
Poulton, Bruce R. – 1994
As described in this performance report, the Workplace Literacy System (WLS) project was a national demonstration program in which North Carolina State University, Forsyth Technical Community College, and Sara Lee Knit Products Company (SLKP) participated as partners. During the project's second phase, a nine-module curriculum on the history of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Content Area Reading
El-Tip-Wa Adult Learning Center, Logansport, IN. – 1992
A workplace literacy partnership project was conducted to upgrade the basic skills and productivity of 287 hourly wage earners of Winamac Spring Company (WSC) in Indiana. WSC paid employee wages for up to 24 hours of training and provided a classroom facility. El-Tip-Wa Adult Learning Center instructional staff provided basic skills training using…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Competency Based Education, Cooperative Programs, Educational Cooperation
Shelton, Elaine – 1993
The Literacy for Employability (LitE) project was conducted from May 1, 1991 through January 31, 1993. The project was intended to upgrade the mathematics, writing, and problem-solving skills of employees at three Austin, Texas, companies: Hart Graphics, IBM, and Texas Instruments. At Hart and Texas, the program was mandatory; at IBM it was…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Cooperative Programs, Decision Making Skills
Carroll Community Coll., Westminster, MD. – 1998
The Home Care Challenge was a 4-year National Workplace Literacy Grant project conducted by Carroll Community College in partnership with Carroll Hospice, Carroll Lutheran Village, and Home Call to provide workplace literacy education for health care workers in these agencies. The project's goals were as follows: improving reading fluency, problem…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Caregivers, Chronic Illness, Diseases
Enterprise State Junior Coll., AL. – 1994
This document consists of the final report and sample curricula from the Rural Textile Workers Literacy Enhancement Project. The final report details how the project was initiated in April 1993 to help employees of five textile and apparel manufacturing companies in southeastern Alabama improve their literacy and numeracy skills. A second…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Development
