This handbook provides guidelines for designing and establishing a vocational assessment center to address the special needs of educationally disadvantaged adults. Section I contains introductory comments on the problem of undereducated and underemployed adults and SAC's efforts to develop an assessment and advisement process specifically for this…

This research synthesis provides an overview of the issues central to adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) programs since researchers and policymakers have shown interest in exploring new possibilities for the ESL component. The following topics are discussed of the Adult Education Act (AEA). The following topics are discussed in the report:…

This document describes Italy's systems and procedures for certifying qualifications and skills within the public system of general education and vocational training (VT). Section 1 details the organizational structure, special features, and system of analysis and certification of student skills/qualifications in Italy's system of general…

Open enrollment is an essential feature of the Education Department of the International Institute in St. Louis, a refugee sponsoring group offering a wide range of social, housing, and medical services; job counseling and placement; and English as a second language classes. The institute allows students to begin a language training program…

The University of Albuquerque established a degree program for adults which includes (1) a time shortened concept, (2) a seminar format in the general education program which allows the adult students an opportunity to question, critique, discuss, and engage in scholarly dialogue with seminar preceptors, (3) a flexible schedule that allows adult…

This instructor's manual is intended to serve as a guide for establishing a small business management adult education program in the local community that will help small business entrepreneurs solve their business management problems and attain the goals they have established for their businesses and their families. (The program curriculum and…

This guide is intended to assist in linking service providers to existing resources and models and to build awareness of the body of innovative work that has been developed to respond to needs of homeless adult learners. It describes materials for instruction, outreach, and program management that were primarily developed in projects funded under…

Intended as a guide for implementation of an educational program for handicapped adults, this manual discusses essential components for an educational developmental disabilities program using an adult education delivery system. Materials are based on efforts of the MSAD (Maine School Administrative District) #11 to offer educational programming to…

"Tribal Consultation Booklets" are the records and background materials of the meetings between Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) staff and tribal representatives, parents, school boards, and other interested parties in ten states, concerning potential changes or issues relating to Indian Education Programs. Such consultation meetings are…

This bibliography cites resources in 13 aspects of education relating to literacy: approaches to literacy; research and practice; critical approaches to literacy (including Paolo Freire, critical theory, literacy and gender); adult education (adult learning, working in groups); popular education and popular culture (community development, writing…

Intended to share information about specialized training and demonstration activities from a rich diversity of local subject interests, environments, and populations served, this guide is a compilation of adult education and literacy resources funded under the Adult Education Act. Information is provided on 276 projects funded under Section 353 of…

This document is an annotated guide to resources such as curriculum guides, teaching methods, research projects, demonstration projects, audiovisual materials, and manuals for use in adult education. The listings are divided into 15 sections that cover the following topics: adult education program management; adults with disabilities;…

This document, which is a supplement to an ongoing study on the structures of the education and initial training systems in the European Union, focuses on education and initial training in the following five countries: Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Slovenia; and Cyprus. The document consists of separate reports for each country. Each report is…

A study described the policies and procedures utilized in exemplary adult vocational education programs in five school planning districts in Ohio. The study, which entailed an analysis of programs involving 34,618 students and 832 instructors, focused on program implementation and administration, student goals and outcomes, instructor…

This catalog, the sixth in a series of annual listings of special adult education projects, is designed to keep practitioners in the field of adult education informed about projects funded by states under section 310 of the Adult Education Act. Included in the catalog are descriptions of a total of 243 projects focusing on the following program…