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Download full textEastern Wyoming Coll., Torrington. – 1969
Undertaken by Eastern Wyoming College, this pilot program of adult basic counseling and testing sought to stimulate the enrollment of school dropouts in adult basic education courses, help enrollees discover their vocational interests and capabilities, and aid them in their personal and social adjustment. A full-time counselor took charge of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Adult Basic Education, Adult Counseling
Kriley, Pat – 1999
An adult educator in Butler, Pennsylvania, noticed that, although students who took the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) seemed highly motivated to improve their basic skills in mathematics and spatial relations, only 2 of her 20 students who took the GATB made a concerted effort to develop their vocabulary. Thinking that those two students…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Cooperative Learning
Allen, Ronald Lorraine – 1968
This study sought to determine characteristics of successful and unsuccessful students in a program of adult Indian basic, prevocational, and family life education conducted at the University of Montana. Subjects were 127 Indians from seven Montana reservations. They were divided into three groups; those who successfully completed the program;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Adult Basic Education, Adult Dropouts
