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Predicting Employment Outcomes of Consumers of State-Operated Comprehensive Rehabilitation Centers
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Beach, David Thomas – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 2009
This study used records from a state-operated comprehensive rehabilitation center to investigate possible predictive factors related to completing comprehensive rehabilitation center programs and successful vocational rehabilitation (VR) case closure. An analysis of demographic data of randomly selected comprehensive rehabilitation center…
Descriptors: Psychological Services, Rehabilitation Centers, Rural Areas, Vocational Rehabilitation
Expanding the Purpose of a Prison Education Classroom
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Thomas, Robert G. – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2012
In 1979, when the author began as an academic instructor at the Central Coast Adult School, located inside the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo, California, he saw his teaching role in the traditional sense of imparting knowledge through the school's curriculum. Over time, however, his viewpoint changed as he came to recognize that the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education
An Analysis of Expected Grade Level Gain as a Result of Participation in the Mandatory Functional Literacy Program.
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Smith, Roger D.; Sua, Dangbe Wuo – 1991
A study attempted to measure the academic gain resulting from 150 hours of mandatory participation in the Mandatory Functional Literacy (MFL) program. The Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) was administered to 58 inmates at Lake Correctional Institution (Florida) prior to beginning the MFL program and again upon completion of the required…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation