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A National Focus on Competency-Based Adult Education.

Dorland, James R. – 1978

In this keynote address, the author introduces several topics of concern for participants in a workshop on competency-based adult education (CBAE). First, he defines four basic terms: adult performance level, minimum competency testing, comptency-based education, and competency-based adult education. Then he reviews the historical background of…

Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Competency Based Education, Educational History

Part 11: A Bill to Provide Educational Proficiency Standards. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-Fifth Congress, First Session on H.R. 6088 (September 12 and 15, 1977).

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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1977

This document contains testimony, prepared statements, letters, and supplemental materials submitted during two days of hearings held in September, 1977. Under consideration was a bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require state educational agencies to establish basic standards of educational proficiency applicable…

Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education

EFF Voice, Winter 2001.

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EFF Voice, 2001

This newsletter reports on the activities of Equipped for the Future (EFF), which is a National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) initiative that develops content standards to ensure that every adult can gain the knowledge and skills needed to fulfill real-world responsibilities as workers, parents, and citizens. A message from the NIFL…

Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Development