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Download full textAllen, Anita Ford; Keene, Sylvia W. – 1995
The Delta Adult Literacy Council, Inc. (DALC) is a volunteer, nonprofit organization that seeks to recruit, assess, train, match, and support volunteer tutors and adult new readers. Its accomplishments, its history as a literacy organization, and its tutor training process are described. The process of student recruitment and support involves…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Agency Cooperation
Smith, Arthur E. – 1996
Two literacy programs based at the State University of New York, College at Brockport (SUNY-Brockport) universities have achieved some success, but both programs have changed, for various reasons. University students have much to gain from their involvement in literacy programs, including the satisfaction of helping others, the opportunity to…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, College Students, Higher Education
Pasch, Marvin; Oakley, Nancy – 1985
A study examined the characteristics and attitudes of tutors and students involved in Project LEARN, an adult literacy program affiliated with the Interchurch Council of Greater Cleveland, Ohio. Data for the study were obtained from several sources, including a mail questionnaire administered to all 183 tutors involved in the project, a longer…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Literacy Education
Stauffer, John – 1974
The purpose of this study was to describe tutor and student participants in a national volunteer adult literacy program, the National Affiliation for Literacy Advance, and obtain a measure of student reading achievement over time. A sample of 1,000 tutors, each representing themselves and one of their students was selected. Information was…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Adult Literacy, Cultural Differences, Educationally Disadvantaged
Farren, Sean; Todd, Mary – 1986
A study investigated the ways in which the provision for adult literacy in Northern Ireland has developed since 1975. Questionnaires were circulated to program organizers, tutors, and other personnel to determine (1) enrollment patterns, (2) program organization and the evolution toward "adult basic education," (3) personnel resources…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
Wood, Margo; And Others – 1983
The major goal of the University of Southern Maine Reading Academy Project was to demonstrate the effectiveness of process-oriented, diagnostic/prescriptive instruction by trained tutors in raising the literacy levels of adults reading at less than a sixth grade equivalency level. Preservice and inservice training using an empirical model of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
