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O'Neill, Shirley; Gish, Annabelle – 2001
A study investigated ways employers and their apprentices and trainees perceive how these employees' English language and literacy (ELL) skills affect their learning and performance in the workplace in the current context of New Apprenticeships. The research design and methodology involved sending an opinion survey to a stratified random sample of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Attitude Measures, Basic Skills
Download full textBynner, John – 2002
The relationship between literacy, numeracy, and employability was examined by analyzing data on basic skills that were collected in two of Great Britain's birth cohort studies--the National Child Development Study and the 1970 British Cohort Study. The functional literacy and numeracy skills of samples of 10% of the participants in each study…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship
