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Heathington, Betty S.; And Others – Adult Literacy and Basic Education, 1986
This study developed an inventory that could be used to assess adult beginning readers' attitudes toward reading in the three attitudinal dimensions of beliefs, feelings, and behaviors and in five reading situations identified by a sample of adult beginning readers. Suggested uses for the inventory were generated. (Author/CH)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Attitude Measures, Beginning Reading
Williams, Richard P.; Strange, Terry – Adult Literacy and Basic Education, 1990
Areas of concern for matching adult readers and programs are theoretical orientation (meaning based, code based, or interactive); programing factors (reading assessment, goal formation, affective factors, negative schooling attitudes, student interests, reading interpretations); and methodologies (phonics, whole word, neuro-impress, repeated…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adult Students
