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Literacy Patterns of Production Workers in Small Manufacturing Companies in the Oklahoma City Metroplex.
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Green, Gary; Sloan, Bobby R. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 1994
The Screening Battery of the Adult Basic Learning Examination and a demographic questionnaire were completed by 65 employees in small manufacturing firms in Oklahoma City. Despite overall educational attainment of 11.5 years, grade equivalents of scores were 7.6 for reading comprehension, 8.9 for problem solving; 21.5% were classified as…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Manufacturing Industry, Problem Solving, Reading Comprehension
Learning to Become a Machine Operator: The Dialogical Relationship between Context, Self, and Content
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Brockman, Julie L.; Dirkx, John M. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2006
As work organizations restructure to remain competitive, problem solving is being pushed down to frontline workers, and emphasis is increasingly placed on workplace learning. In this exploratory, qualitative study, we focus on workers' experiences of problems within the context of their work and how these contexts foster their learning and…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Problem Solving, Human Resources, Adult Educators