Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 0 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 3 |
Descriptor
Author
Bragg, Debra D., Ed. | 1 |
Dawson, Karen S. | 1 |
Dawson, Richard E. | 1 |
Garruto, Patricia J. | 1 |
Jackson, Sharon | 1 |
Jenkins, Davis | 1 |
Moore, Lawrence H. | 1 |
Taylor, Jason L., Ed. | 1 |
Van Noy, Michelle | 1 |
Wachen, John | 1 |
Publication Type
Reports - Research | 2 |
Collected Works - Serial | 1 |
Dissertations/Theses -… | 1 |
Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 1 |
Journal Articles | 1 |
Education Level
Higher Education | 2 |
Postsecondary Education | 2 |
Two Year Colleges | 2 |
Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
Audience
Practitioners | 2 |
Policymakers | 1 |
Teachers | 1 |
Location
Illinois | 1 |
Kentucky | 1 |
Missouri | 1 |
New Jersey | 1 |
Ohio | 1 |
Washington | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Workforce Investment Act 1998 | 1 |
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Garruto, Patricia J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
High school graduates continue to enter post-secondary education lacking in basic mathematical skills and thus not academically prepared to enroll in college-level mathematics courses (ACT, 2010). Although it can be argued that those mathematical concepts should have been mastered in grades K-12, educating those students in basic skills…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, Educational Change, Academic Standards, Mathematics Education
Wachen, John; Jenkins, Davis; Van Noy, Michelle – Community College Review, 2011
The federal government and private foundations for education have established postsecondary credential completion as a national imperative. Washington State's Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) model was developed to increase the rate at which basic skills students advance to and succeed in college-level occupational programs,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Technical Education, Basic Skills, Career Education
Bragg, Debra D., Ed.; Taylor, Jason L., Ed. – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2009
This edition features current research, practice, and policy related to the Joyce Foundation's Shifting Gears initiative beginning with an interview with Whitney Smith, Manager of the Employment Program at the Joyce Foundation. Julie Strawn, Center for Law and Social Policy, presents a national perspective of basic skills reform efforts similar to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Interviews, Educational Strategies, Formative Evaluation
Dawson, Karen S.; Dawson, Richard E. – 1985
This monograph reports on an exploratory investigation of the impact of minimum competency testing on local schools. The implementation and impacts of test requirements in three Missouri and four Ohio local school districts are studied through interviews with teachers and administrators and through the analysis of written materials on the test and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Legislation
Moore, Lawrence H.; Jackson, Sharon – 1984
This manual is intended for use in training new and first-year adult basic education (ABE) teachers in Kentucky. Discussed in the introductory chapter are the roots of ABE in Kentucky, the basic goals and objectives of ABE, and the ways in which programs are established and operated locally. Next, the characteristics of adult students are…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Adult Students