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ABE Students Want Math Skills for Handling $: A User Needs Assessment Survey of Adult Basic Education Students
Pickens, Leslie – Adult Literacy and Basic Education, 1977
How to use math in handling money is the most important life-coping skill/competency adult basic education students in Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Alaska want and need, according to a survey conducted by the Adult Consumer Education Project, part of the Adult Education Program at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. (SH)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Consumer Education, Educational Needs, Educational Research
Project APPLE CORE. Annual Report, July 1, 1975 to September 30, 1975.
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Louisiana State Dept. of Education, Baton Rouge. – 1975
Project Apple Core (Adult Performance Level), a 15-month project funded through Section 309 of the Adult Education Act of 1966, was carried out in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, to provide a career-oriented instructional program for undereducated and underemployed adults in that area. The document briefly describes some aspects of the project, in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Basic Skills, Career Education
Adult Basic Education: Research and Dissemination. Proceedings of the Virginia A.B.E. Dissemination Conference (Roanoke, Virginia, July 16-18, 1979).
1979
These proceedings contain eleven presentations made at the 1979 Adult Education Dissemination Conference (July 16-18) in Roanoke, Virginia, to disseminate results of demonstration projects funded by the Adult Education Act, Title VI, P.L. 95-561 and Amendments, Section 310. A brief report on a special project workshop (March 4-7, 1980) in Roanoke…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Basic Skills, Beginning Reading
The Development and Testing of Adult Vocational Programs Utilizing the Adult Performance Level Competency Approach. Final Report.
Tennessee State Dept. of Education, Nashville. – 1979
A project set out to develop and test adult performance level (APL) materials for pre-vocational programs to enable adults to develop those skills needed to seek and retain employment. Addressing the APL area of occupational knowledge only, methodology focused on (1) joint planning in material development and testing; (2) extensive training in…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Adult Basic Education. Adult Performance Level Curriculum Handbook: Occupational Knowledge, Consumer Economics, Health and Safety, Government and Law, Community Resources.
Harding, Mildred; Thomas, Claire – 1978
Beginning with a brief project report, this curriculum guide is intended to enable teachers to work effectively with Adult Performance Level (APL) programs. The manual (1) clarifies the concept of APL, (2) describes the APL-ABE (Adult Basic Education) curriculum at Florida Junior College (FJC), (3) provides examples of effective lesson plans for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Audiovisual Aids, Basic Skills
Survival English Learning Experience Program for Foreign Born Adults. A 310 Special Demonstration Project, 1980/81.
Glover-Smith, Alma J.; Bell, Bernadette S. – 1981
Written for teachers, coordinators, and supervisors, this manual describes the structural content of Project SELEP (Survival Skills in English Learning Experience Program). It indicates areas of concern in planning, establishing, and evaluating classes emphasizing survival skills for daily living appropriate for the foreign born adult in an…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Development