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The Impact of Education on Incarcerated Youth and Educational Gains at a Juvenile Facility in Rural Nevada Using Test for Adult Assessment Results: a Quantitative Study Using Casual Comparative Design
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Sherry L. Spencer – ProQuest LLC, 2022
I will discuss data collected throughout this dissertation to discover whether adjudicated youth made educational gains while incarcerated at a juvenile facility in rural Nevada. The problem addressed in this study was adjudicated youth returning to a society lacking the support necessary to succeed in education and life. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education, Delinquent Rehabilitation, Youth
Expanding the Purpose of a Prison Education Classroom
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Thomas, Robert G. – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2012
In 1979, when the author began as an academic instructor at the Central Coast Adult School, located inside the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo, California, he saw his teaching role in the traditional sense of imparting knowledge through the school's curriculum. Over time, however, his viewpoint changed as he came to recognize that the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education
The Experimental Manpower Laboratory for Corrections. Progress Report on Phase III, June through August, 1972.
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Rehabilitation Research Foundation, Elmore, AL. Draper Correctional Center. – 1972
This progress report summarizes the activities from June to August, 1972, of the Experimental Manpower Laboratory for Corrections at Draper Correctional Center. EMLC studies are designed to determine if behavior modification techniques are feasible and provide viable alternatives to aversive control. In the Token Economy (Ecology) Project, inmates…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education
An Analysis of Expected Grade Level Gain as a Result of Participation in the Mandatory Functional Literacy Program.
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Smith, Roger D.; Sua, Dangbe Wuo – 1991
A study attempted to measure the academic gain resulting from 150 hours of mandatory participation in the Mandatory Functional Literacy (MFL) program. The Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) was administered to 58 inmates at Lake Correctional Institution (Florida) prior to beginning the MFL program and again upon completion of the required…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation