For nearly one year, the EdTech Center at World Education led a field test of the unique mobile app, Learning Upgrade. In this report, we share use scenarios and observations gleaned from this research in adult English speakers of other languages (ESOL) and basic education programs across the U.S. The field test helps us better understand how and…

The focus of the Technology Solutions for Adult Basic Skills Challenges column is common challenges of adult basic skills practitioners, expressed, for example, in the Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS) Integrating Technology group for which, David Rosen is the moderator, in other LINCS groups, in his national and state…

The present study aimed to assess the performance of a non-formal basic education (NFBE) schools project initiated in the province of Punjab with the assistance of the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA). The study was conducted in 120 NFBE schools in four districts of Punjab and it lasted for a period of three months. It was a survey…

This dissertation investigates the Community Writing and Education Station (CWEST), a community engagement project that partners a community adult basic literacy program with a university writing lab. The author argues that the community and university partners, the Lafayette Adult Resource Academy (LARA) and the Purdue Writing Lab, offer positive…

For this research, learners did extensive graded reading (EGR) with traditional graded readers, and they also interacted with short graded stories in the liberal arts and sciences (LAS). This study describes the purpose and format of the LAS stories used by hundreds of university students and adult learners in Japan. It summarizes the results of…

Scholars of adult basic literacy curricular materials have argued that the skill-based, deficit-oriented approach of many such materials denies the interests and motivations of adult learners. Exploring why these kinds of curricular materials are prevalent in adult basic literacy education, this article focuses on the case of ProLiteracy, a…

The volume addresses the ways that the field of adult basic education has already been impacted by changes in technology and what needs to happen for learners and teachers to take full advantage of newly developing resources. The analysis is organized around three main themes: Learning, Teaching, and Organizing. Each section reviews relevant…

The mail order catalogs of T. Eaton Company and Robert Simpson Company have been the most universally used texts for adult basic education in Canada's remoter areas. (MF)

THESE WORKBOOKS, WHICH ARE USED IN THE ADULT BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAM IN DANBURY, CONNECTICUT, PROVIDE TEACHING MATERIALS AND DRILL EXERCISES IN MULTIPLICATION. PART I CONTAINS MULTIPLICATION TABLES, PROBLEMS, AND DRILL INVOLVING THE NUMERALS TWO THROUGH NINE. PART II CONTAINS PROBLEMS AND DRILL EXERCISES USING THE NUMERALS TEN TO TWELVE, NUMBERS…

The document contains 27 stories selected for adults who are reading from the second grade to 3.5 grade level. The title of the story, its appropriate grade level, and the author's name are listed for each story. Included with each story are several content-oriented questions of varying formats. (AG)

A variety of methods in instructing adults is presented in this teacher's manual which also mentions the availability of packets of instructional materials and lists the subject areas covered. To this is added comments on the background material for the adult teacher, and on the importance of aims, motivation, and development in lesson plans for…

The Newspaper offers tremendous potential as a means to teach most of the basic reading skills. (NL)

This manual provides teachers with lesson plans in consumer education. Each lesson contains background material offering the teacher specific information on the subject of the lesson, development of understandings, student worksheets, and discussion questions to encourage student involvement. The ten lesson plans are--Buying on time, Retail…

This "Scope and Sequence Chart" contains programed, semi-programed, self-directed, and immediate-response curricular materials. These materials have been categorized into the areas of language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies, and placed into grade level scales. (author/nl)