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Campbell, Kim Sydow – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2016
Flipping originated in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields, where didactic transmission of conceptual knowledge has been the standard pedagogy. Flipping has resulted in additional focus on procedural knowledge within class meetings. This article argues that business and professional writing pedagogy, which already focuses…
Descriptors: Workplace Literacy, Writing Instruction, Business Communication, Teaching Methods
Washington, Melvin C. – American Journal of Business Education, 2014
Twenty-first century organizations are increasingly becoming global information networks where the emphasis on written communication is growing exponentially. Effective writing skills are becoming more essential to workplace success and thus a central focus in business programs across the country. This article addresses writing issues in business…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Business Administration Education, Business Communication, Writing Skills
Taylor, Maurice; Evans, Karen; Pinsent-Johnson, Christine – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate how knowledge of different kinds is put to work in workplace education programmes for adults with low skills and adults with higher skills. A novel framework, which has moved beyond narrow conceptions of "transfer" to concentrate on different forms of knowledge and the ways these are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Literacy, Transfer of Training, Knowledge Level
Freeman, Robin; Le Rossignol, Karen – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2010
The role of a professional and creative writing degree is to provide resources, structured workshops, professional interactions--and the potential for creative risk. Opportunities for risk, within the structured environment of the university, challenge the individual's perspectives and judgements, as well as their ability to analyse and to reflect…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Creative Writing, Experiential Learning, Risk
Yu, Han – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2008
To teach students how to write for the workplace and other professional contexts, technical writing teachers often assign writing tasks that reflect real-life communication contexts, a teaching approach that is grounded in the field's contextualized understanding of genre. This article argues to fully embrace contextualized literacy and better…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Writing Teachers
English, Leona M.; Fenwick, Tara J.; Parsons, Jim – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2005
Workplace education's interest in spirituality is examined, with an emphasis placed on why this interest might be increasing and what challenges it presents. This article interrogates commonplace strategies to integrate spirituality in workplace education,--providing holistic education, creating sacred spaces and mentoring--questions each approach…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Ethics, Teaching Methods, Higher Education
Hollenbeck, Kevin; Timmeney, Bridget – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2009
Findings from an evaluation of a workplace literacy program funded by the State of Indiana are presented. Working with employers, providers were given considerable latitude to design their own training regimens. The state awarded certificates to workers who achieved certain levels of proficiency in reading, math, critical thinking, problem solving…
Descriptors: Productivity, College Attendance, Workplace Literacy, Computer Literacy
Geertshuis, Susan A.; Fazey, John A. – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2006
Purpose: The aim of this study is to explore approaches to learning in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach: Computer based questionnaires are used with a sample of over 300 employees. Findings: Using a version of the Revised Approaches to Study Inventory (RASI) adapted to workforce development, the factor structure of deep, surface and…
Descriptors: Employees, Factor Structure, Psychometrics, Teaching Methods
Anger, W. Kent; Tamulinas, Alys; Uribe, Andrea; Ayala, Cesar – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2004
Mexican immigrants working at a wholesale nursery were involved in developing user instructions for a computer-based instruction system. Sixty-one Latinos with 0 to 16 years of education completed user instructions delivered on the computer, and all but 3 completed training content about the nursery. Based on objective criteria, program use was…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Immigrants, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
Brandenburg, Dale C.; Richey, Rita C. – 1998
Analysis of the Project ALERT (Adult Literacy Enhanced & Redefined through Training) Workplace Literacy Project produced a description of the needs assessment process, steps, and instruments that can be used for needs assessment in other workplace education projects. The data for the needs assessment were collected through the following methods: a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Continuing Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
Woods, Gordon and Co., Toronto (Ontario). – 1988
An evaluation was conducted of three adult literacy and basic skills programs in Ontario (Canada) to identify the type and nature of clients served and services provided by the programs. Research methodology included mailed questionnaires (n=150, 78 percent returned), 92 personal and telephone interviews with instructors and administrators of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Foreign Countries
International Masonry Inst., Washington, DC. – 1990
In a workplace literacy program designed by the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen and the International Masonry Institute, the basic skills of 615 participants were assessed in mathematics, reading, writing, presentation, listening-responding, and problem-solving at sites in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. Available data…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology
Philippi, Jorie W.; Mikulecky, Larry; Lloyd, Paul – 1998
This document contains four evaluations of Project ALERT (Adult Literacy Enhanced & Redefined through Training), a workplace literacy partnership of Wayne State University, the Detroit Public Schools, and several city organizations, unions, and manufacturers in the automobile industry that was formed to meet employees' job-specific basic skills…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Continuing Education, Education Work Relationship, Institutional Cooperation
Brandenburg, Dale C. – 1998
In order to evaluate the Project ALERT (Adult Literacy Enhanced & Redefined through Training) Workplace Literacy Project, data were collected to gauge the impact of the program on individual participants, the organizations in which they were employed, and to provide the use of whole language and multimedia techniques in workplace literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Communication Skills, Continuing Education, Education Work Relationship
Perin, Dolores; And Others – 1994
This report documents the Workplace Literacy for Psychiatric Health Care Workers project, a partnership between a labor union and the City University of New York through which workplace literacy instruction was provided to mental hygiene therapy aides (MHTAs) employed in five state-operated psychiatric hospitals in New York City. Among the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Behavioral Objectives, Check Lists
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