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Using the Newspaper as an A.B.E. Instructional Aid.

Smith, Robin; Kozacik, Mary – 1975

The paper describes the evaluation of a packet of 48 Adult Basic Education (A.B.E.) instructional units, designed to help the A.B.E. learner read the newspaper with more facility and interest. The extent to which planned activities were carried out (process) and the extent to which program objectives for changing performance of the project…

Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups

A 309 b Adult Education Special Project. Final Report, FY 1974-75.

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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

Learn to Read. A Project to Serve Functionally Illiterate English-Dominant Adults and Limited English Proficient Adults, Involving Instructors, Tutors and Students Interacting to Try New Approaches, Techniques and Methods.

Appelson, Marilyn; And Others – 1984

A 310 Project, Learn to Read, was conducted by Oakton Community College in suburban Chicago to teach reading to functionally illiterate and limited English speaking (LEP) adults using a variety of approaches. Participants included two groups. One group consisted of American-born adults who had basic oral competency but had failed to acquire…

Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Dropout Prevention