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Hughes, Bob; Arbogast, Janet; Kafer, Lindsey; Chen, Julianna – Adult Learning, 2014
Teaching graduate students to conduct evaluations is typically relegated to evaluation methods courses. This approach misses an opportunity for students to collaboratively use evaluation skills to explore content. This article examines a graduate course, Issues in Adult Basic Education, in which students learned evaluation methods concurrently…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Graduate Students, Evaluation Methods, Methods Courses
Knox, Alan B.; And Others – 1972
An outcome of a study of adult basic education programs initiated three years ago by the Columbia University Center of Adult Education, the evaluation guide with its step-by-step instructions can be used for both formative and summative evaluations of adult basic education programs. Background research involved in this publication included direct…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation
Dutton, Donnie; And Others – 1972
The overall effectiveness of the educational experiences provided at three Middle Tennessee ABE workshops was determined. Two instruments were used to collect data from approximately 300 adult basic education personnel from all counties in Middle Tennessee; these instruments were a questionnaire and an evaluation scale. The participants' responses…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Participant Satisfaction
Harrison, David – 1979
This guide is intended for use by adult basic education practitioners in the screening of basic reading textbooks prior to their adoption for classroom use. The guide is in the form of a questionnaire and consists of dichotomous-choice questions arranged into three sections that relate to the product design, adult learning, and reading instruction…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Questionnaires
Thomas, Audrey M. – 1989
This guide resulted from a project conducted to develop a process for evaluating adult basic education (ABE) tutoring programs. Through a literature search and discussions with ABE practitioners in Canada, a list of 17 statements of good practice was formulated. These statements were used as a basis for the development of a program questionnaire,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Practices, Evaluation Criteria
Mezirow, Jack – 1975
Designed to assist evaluators of statewide programs for Adult Basic Education (ABE), the document presents a perspectives discrepancy assessment approach. The evaluation design and instrumentation presented were used to evaluate ABE programs in Iowa, and this effort is described, together with suggestions for adapting the Iowa design to fit other…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Voss, Cameron – 1994
A women's program worked to develop procedures for assessing student progress that would help prevent the sense of failure that women reading at low grade levels often develop after failing to pass the General Educational Development (GED) Test quickly. An on-site assessment research group was formed. The group's curriculum developer created three…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Alternative Assessment, Evaluation Methods
Urey, Donna – 1999
A project was conducted to redesign the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education required student tracking form to provide for better student tracking. The Student Intake and Data form supplied by the PDE from program year 1996-97 was used as a point of comparison, and evaluations of this form by…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Data Collection
Muller, Josef, Ed.; Dietrich, Anja, Ed. – 1989
This document contains a collection of literacy program evaluation instruments from developing countries, as well as several papers describing how to use evaluation instruments to assess various types of systems. The following titles (with author or country of origin) are contained in this collection: "Designing a System of Evaluation and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Developing Nations
Dutton, Donnie; And Others – 1972
The overall effectiveness of the educational experiences provided at two West Tennessee ABE Workshops conducted in November 1971, excluding an objective measure of gain in knowledge, was studied. A questionnaire and an evaluation scale for use by workshop participants were administered to adult basic education personnel from all counties in West…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Evaluation Methods, Females

Davis, Ann E.; Yap, Kim O. – 1992
Teachers, administrators, volunteers, and students involved in Adult Basic Education/English-as-a-Second-Language (ABE/ESL) programs in Washington were interviewed regarding their perceptions of assessment and their assessment needs. The primary objective of the study was to gather information that could be used in developing an assessment model…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Attitudes, Adult Basic Education, Community Colleges
Brown, Edward B.; Dutton, Donnie – 1972
Three 2-week Adult Basic Education (ABE) Institutes were conducted in Tennessee during the summer of 1972. The three were an ABE Guidance and Counseling Institute, an ABE Materials and Teaching Institute, and an ABE Reading Institute. Each institute consisted of approximately 30 participants from the various regions of the state, and graduate…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Credit Courses, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods
Hardiman, Sydney Schwartz – 1999
A 5-month project was conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council (GPLC) to develop a better posttest to evaluate student goals and their tutoring experience after they had worked with a volunteer tutor for approximately 50 hours. During the project, the existing evaluation form was reviewed, and a new one-page posttest evaluation sheet…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
Gal, Iddo; Schuh, Alex – 1994
Baseline information about numeracy education provision in the United States was collected in a questionnaire completed by 350 (57.9%) of 650 adult education programs surveyed. The usable responses yielded data about numeracy education provided to 774,955 students in 15 states. Among the study's main findings were the following: more than 80% of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Holt, Daniel D., Ed. – 1992
This document is a guide to the use of alternative assessments (surveys, interviews, observation measures, and performance samples) in a family literacy project. This resource guide focuses on using alternative approaches to identify learners' needs, determine learners' ongoing progress in meeting project objectives, ascertain overall success of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Alternative Assessment, Data Analysis, Data Collection
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