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Direct linkGreenberg, Daphne; Wise, Justin C.; Frijters, Jan C.; Morris, Robin; Fredrick, Laura D.; Rodrigo, Victoria; Hall, Ryan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
Adult literacy programs are characterized by high attrition rates. Rigorous exploration of student persistence in adult reading classes is lacking. This study was an attempt to understand the profiles of adults who completed reading classes compared to a group of adults who made it to the midpoint and a group of adults who did not make it to the…
Descriptors: Persistence, Adult Literacy, Student Attrition, Academic Persistence
Murphy, Martin G. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examined the predictive relationship between adult literacy students' reading assessments in four component sub-skills (phonological decoding, vocabulary, fluency, and spelling) and their gains in reading comprehension from pretest to posttest. Additionally, the adult literacy instructors' content knowledge in reading…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement, Achievement Gains
Statistics Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). – 2000
Data drawn from 3 cycles of data collection for the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) were analyzed to identify the levels and distributions of literacy skills in the adult populations of 20 countries. The following were among the main conclusions: (1) in 14 of the countries, at least 15% of all adults have literacy skills at only the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Comparative Analysis
