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Numeracy Imprisoned: Skills and Practices of Incarcerated Adults in the United States
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Reder, Stephen – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2020
The development of cognitive skills is influenced by characteristics of both individuals and the environments in which they live, including their homes, neighborhoods, schools and workplaces. Contextual features of these environments shape and constrain cognitive development in various ways. This article considers the case of numeracy development…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Context Effect
Incarcerated Adults with Dependent Children
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Daniel M. Leeds; Juliana Pearson; Simone Robers; Leslie Scott – Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2020
The recent Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) provides insights into the skill levels of incarcerated adults ages 18-74 for the first time in more than a decade. Initial analyses of PIAAC data indicated that 31 percent of incarcerated adults with dependent children under 18 have low literacy skill levels…
Descriptors: Adults, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Parents
Recidivism and Correctional Education: Findings from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies and National Reporting System
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Patterson, Margaret B. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2021
Nearly all incarcerated adults will eventually be released to reenter communities and rebuild their lives. The literature indicates half of re-entering adults return to prison within five years and recidivism is higher for adults with low education attainment. The aim of this paper is to add to existing knowledge on incarcerated adult…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Correctional Education, Adult Education, Institutionalized Persons
Incarcerated Adults with Low Skills: Findings from the 2014 PIAAC Prison Study
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Patterson, Margaret – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2019
Incarcerated men and women in state and federal prisons face multiple educational and economic challenges. Disabilities and health concerns of incarcerated adults exceed that of the general population. Despite widespread availability of correctional education programs in prisons, only a small proportion of prisoners complete them. Employing…
Descriptors: Adults, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education
How to Unlock the Power of Prison Education. Policy Report
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Steurer, Stephen J. – ETS Center for Research on Human Capital and Education, 2020
Using data from two of the most recognized studies on the incarcerated population, the "U.S. PIAAC Survey of Incarcerated Adults" and a comprehensive evaluation by the RAND Corporation for the Bureau of Justice Assistance, as well as insights from interviews with leading experts in the U.S. penal system and his own observations made over…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Role of Education
Examining Correlates of PIAAC Literacy and Passage Comprehension Performance among the U.S. Adult Prison Population
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Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Reed, Deborah K.; Branum-Martin, Lee; Nwosu, Nonyé A. O. – Journal of Correctional Education, 2019
This study used the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) prison sample to explore the predictive contributions of Print Vocabulary and Sentence Processing skills to the Literacy and Passage Comprehension performance of 461 U.S. prisoners. Both predictors were significant, but Print Vocabulary accounted for less…
Descriptors: Correlation, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Literacy