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Download full textKrenzke, Tom; Mohadjer, Leyla; Li, Jianzhu; Erciulescu, Andreea; Fay, Robert; Ren, Weijia; Van de Kerckhove, Wendy; Li, Lin; Rao, J. N. K. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
The Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is a multicycle survey of adult skills and competencies sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The survey examines a range of basic skills in the information age and assesses these adult skills consistently across participating…
Descriptors: Adults, International Assessment, Adult Literacy, Competence
Direct linkGoodwyn, Latasha F. – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2019
This study examined African American students' persistence rates in an adult basic education and literacy (AEL) program by juxtaposing teacher disposition that predicts student retention in an AEL program with an AEL Integrated Education and Training program (IET) as a predictor of student success. The Teacher Attribute Survey was administered to…
Descriptors: African American Students, Adult Students, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy
Lundetrae, Kjersti – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2011
Drop-out from upper secondary school is considered a widespread problem, closely connected with youth unemployment. The aim of the current study was to examine whether parents' level of education predicted drop-out for 16-24-year-olds when accounting for basic skills. For this purpose, data from the Norwegian (n = 996) and American (n = 641)…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Secondary School Students, Unemployment, Parent Background
Averitt, Sallie D. – 1993
A study was conducted to determine: (1) if instruction correlated to the Tests of Adult Basic Education (TABE) resulted in improved basic skills for participants in the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) Program; and (2) to determine the impact of selected factors on grade-level advancement (pre- versus posttest TABE scores). A literature…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
Parsons, Samantha; Bynner, John – 1998
The factors influencing development of basic skills from birth to age 37 were examined by analyzing a sample of 1,700 people who were part of the National Child Development Study (NCDS), a longitudinal study in which data on more than 17,000 people who were born in Great Britain in a single week in 1958 were collected when they were 7, 11, 16, 23,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
