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Schick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1968
Focusing on multidisciplinary aspects of college and adult reading, the 27 articles in this volume were drawn from the seventeenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1967. Among the topics discussed in the articles are the following: psychological embarrassments of reading, rapid reading, reading rate, tutoring in a college…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Content Area Reading
Download full textGriffin, Tom; Songer, Tim – 1988
A project was undertaken at Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC), in Charlotte, North Carolina, to develop, field test, and validate reading courseware for adults that takes into account individual learning styles. Two literacy products were developed and evaluated. The first, the Learning Style Survey (LSS), is an interactive videodisc…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Audiovisual Aids
Thurston, Eric L., Ed.; Hafner, Lawrence E., Ed. – 1965
Focusing on the philosophical and sociological bases of reading, the papers in this volume were drawn from the fourteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1964. Among the topics covered in the 27 papers are the following: the philosophy and sociology of reading; reading reform; adult literacy; paperback books; factors in…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Cloze Procedure, College Students
Schick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1970
This is the first of two volumes containing papers focusing on reading processes and pedagogy that were drawn from the nineteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1969. Among the topics discussed in the 42 papers are the following: underlining, individualized reading instruction, reading improvement programs in industry…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Critical Reading
Niagara Falls Board of Education, NY. – 1975
The HEW 309(b) Special Project carried out by the Niagara Falls Adult Basic Education program, "The Identification of Preferred Cognitive Styles and Matching Adult Reading Program Alternatives for the 0-4 Grade Levels," involved research, training in cognitive style mapping, and development of a survey and process to assess the adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes
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
Greene, Frank P., Ed. – 1972
This is one of two volumes of papers drawn from the twenty-first annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1971. Focusing on junior college and college reading programs and problems, the 40 papers are arranged into the following categories: designs for programs, special admission students, ethnically different students, adult…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Higher Education, Individualized Programs
Phelps, Margaret S.; And Others – 1987
This paper describes a model for a literacy program proposed for the Rural Education Project at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville. The program would target unemployed adults, at-risk youth and others in a seven-county target area whose lack of reading skills hampers their search for employment. The model calls for cooperative…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Adults, Basic Skills
Richardson, Cathy; Blanchet-Cohen, Natasha – 2000
Adult education for indigenous peoples in Canada was examined. First, information on government institutions, indigenous organizations, international agencies, and nongovernmental organizations engaged in adult education for Canada's indigenous peoples was compiled. Next, questionnaires and survey techniques were used to research the policy and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
Darling, Sharon; And Others – 1983
This administrator's quide, one in a series of works dealing with adult literacy education, surveys the essential components of adult literacy program development and management and details the related experience of the Jefferson County Adult Reading Program (JCARP) in Louisville, Kentucky. Addressed in the individual sections of the guide are the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Guides, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy
Ward, Betty Arnett; Brice, Edward Warner – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
This bibliography should be useful to educators, researchers, teachers, personnel managers and placement officers, industrial training supervisors, vocational and rehabilitation counselors, and volunteers engaged in full- or part-time work with the backward and illiterate adult. It should serve librarians in the development of professional and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Annotated Bibliographies, Adult Literacy
