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Utah State Office of Education, Salt Lake City. – 1990
This report describes the educational and economic achievements and challenges of the Utah adult education program in a statistical outline and in a chart format. Section A outlines general achievement information: numbers of Utah adults without a high school diploma; total enrollees; educational achievements (attendance, diploma or passage of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness
Download full textHibpshman, Terry – 1989
This review of the Parent and Child Education (PACE) program discusses the professional literature that supports the PACE model, data analysis of the program, and suggestions for improving the design of program evaluation. The PACE program is based on widely accepted ideas about the relationship between family characteristics and children's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Adult Basic Education, Children
Morehead State Univ., KY. Appalachian Adult Education Center. – 1975
To assess different methods of preparation for the General Educational Development (GED) examination in rural and urban sites, a study was designed to compare three different types of delivery systems: (1) a support program alone without educational television (ETV); (2) ETV alone; and (3) ETV plus a personal contact, supplemental training support…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Students, Community Education
Martinson, Karin; Friedlander, Daniel – 1994
An evaluation of California's statewide Greater Avenues for Independence (GAIN) Program was based mainly on a sample of more than 2,500 welfare recipients in five of the six counties included in the ongoing evaluation. The evaluation drew on previously completed analyses and new data based on a survey of these recipients and the results of a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Dropout Rate
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Research. – 1990
Statewide results of South Carolina's Basic Skills Assessment Program (BSAP) are provided in terms of the percentages of students meeting statewide performance standards in reading, mathematics, writing, and science. BSAP tests were administered statewide on April 23-27, 1990, in grades 1, 2, 3, 6, and 8. The BSAP Exit Examination was administered…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Research. – 1990
To comply with state law, the results of the South Carolina Basic Skills Assessment Program (BSAP) are reported for the 1989-90 school year. Accomplishments included: (1) administering the readiness test--the Cognitive Skills Assessment Battery (CSAB)--to all first graders; (2) administering criterion-referenced basic skills tests to all students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests
Continuing Education Inst., Needham, MA. – 1997
The Adult Diploma Program is a high school equivalency program that is operated as a partnership between the Continuing Education Institute in Watertown, Massachusetts, and five area businesses. In early 1997, 36 of the program's 40 graduates were surveyed regarding their activities since graduation and their views of the program's usefulness to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Crossland, Ron – 1998
The Running Start program was created by the 1990 Washington State Legislature to expand educational options for public school students. Running Start allows eleventh and twelfth grade high school students to take college-level courses, tuition-free, at the 32 community and technical colleges in Washington. This annual progress report for 1996-97…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annual Reports, College Credits, College Programs
Royce, Sherry, Ed. – 2000
This booklet contains profiles of nine outstanding adult learners from eight Pennsylvania counties who have been recognized for their educational achievements and for acknowledging the power of education in their lives and overcoming great personal difficulties to improve and enhance the quality of their lives and those of their families and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
