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Heathington, Betty S.; And Others – Adult Literacy and Basic Education, 1986
This study developed an inventory that could be used to assess adult beginning readers' attitudes toward reading in the three attitudinal dimensions of beliefs, feelings, and behaviors and in five reading situations identified by a sample of adult beginning readers. Suggested uses for the inventory were generated. (Author/CH)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Attitude Measures, Beginning Reading
Hutchison, Laveria – 1977
In order to determine whether lessons addressed to the expressed personal interest of functionally illiterate adult students would improve their reading skills, 40 such students attending an urban adult education center were divided into two reading classes. All were tested on a silent reading subtest of the Adult Basic Learning Examination and…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Functional Literacy, Illiteracy
Philippi, Jorie W. – 1987
To measure the effectiveness of the Basic Skills Education Program (BSEP) reading curriculum--eight reading skill modules employing military job-specific reading materials and used by the U.S. Army in Europe (USAREUR)--and to provide information for improving it, a study examined 183 soldiers from 38 European posts who were enrolled in the BSEP…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Enlisted Personnel, Functional Literacy, Job Training
