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Greenwood, Gordon E.; And Others – 1976
The purpose of this study was to assess self-concept, teaching behavior, and life-style changes in parents employed as paid paraprofessionals in the University of Florida Follow-Through Program during 1971-1972. Results indicate that such parents made statistically significant gains on the feelings-of-competence factor of the How I See Myself…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Behavior Change, Education, Home Programs
Download full textResearch Assessment Management, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1993
The Head Start home-based supervisor provides guidance, support, direction, and continuing staff development opportunities while attempting to maintain and improve quality of services to Head Start children and families. This guide is designed to help the home-based supervisor in carrying out responsibilities while supporting the home visitor, who…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Burnout, Coping, Home Programs
Peer reviewedMcKenzie, A. D. – Education in Rural Australia, 1994
Describes the Farm Management Home Study Program, a distance education program implemented in 1970 that has allowed over 10,000 farmers and land and business managers in rural New South Wales (Australia) to upgrade their skills through vocational programs in farm management, farm office management, and other vocational courses related to farming.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Farmer Education, Adult Learning, Competency Based Education
Eberle, Anne; Robinson, Sandra – 1980
This monograph presents what illiterate and formerly illiterate adults have said regarding what it is like to be unable to read in a world that presumes everyone is literate, and of experiences they have had while acquiring the ability to read and write. In later chapters the authors, who were involved in the Vermont Adult Basic Education (ABE)…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
Rose, Harold; And Others – 1980
This report discusses a project to provide a comprehensive pre-service and inservice training program for adult basic education (ABE) teachers and paraprofessionals throughout Kentucky. It is arranged by the project's six components. Chapters 1 and 2 focus on two activities of the adult learning disabilities teacher training component: Adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Competency Based Education
Vaughn, Carol – 2000
This document is intended as a template for individuals initiating and developing adult education distance learning programs. The introduction discusses the following issues: benefits of distance learning; flexibility; confidentiality; retention; and the best students to target. The template and supplementary materials are organized in five…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning
