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Direct linkLippert, Anne; Gatewood, Jessica; Cai, Zhiqiang; Graesser, Arthur C. – Grantee Submission, 2019
One out of six adults in the United States possesses low literacy skills. Many advocates believe that technology can pave the way for these adults to gain the skills that they desire. This article describes an adaptive intelligent tutoring system called AutoTutor that is designed to teach adults comprehension strategies across different levels of…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Educational Technology, Adult Literacy, Skill Development
Njie, Valerie; Cramer, Elizabeth – 1988
The Bidwell Training Center, Inc., in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, evaluated the effectiveness of IBM's Principle of the Alphabet Literacy System (PALS), an interactive instructional program to teach adolescents and adults writing and reading skills. Bidwell's goal was to use PALS to teach large numbers of adults who read below the fifth-grade level.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Classroom Techniques, Computer Managed Instruction
Nurss, Joanne R. – 1989
A study evaluated the IBM Principles of Adult Literacy (PALS) program in 1988-89. Three adult education centers in Georgia (two with PALS and one without) were studied to determine whether, for adult nonreaders, the PALS program produced gains in reading equal to or greater than those produced by a traditional noncomputerized program. In addition…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Sabatini, John P. – 2001
An analysis was conducted of the results of a formative evaluation of the LiteracyLink "Workplace Essential Skills" (WES) learning system conducted in the fall of 1998. (The WES learning system is a multimedia learning system integrating text, sound, graphics, animation, video, and images in a computer system and includes a videotape series, a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Computer Software
