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An Examination of the Adult Performance Level Project and Its Effects upon Adult Literacy Education in the United States.
Kazemek, Francis E. – Lifelong Learning, 1985
The author explores why he believes the Adult Performance Level criteria, related objectives and the instructional strategies, and programs that follow from the objectives are unsupportable by any empirical evidence and detrimental to both individuals and society. (CT)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Persuasive Discourse
An Examination of the Adult Performance Level Project and Its Effects upon Adult Literacy Education in the United States.
Kazemek, Francis E. – 1983
The Adult Performance Level (APL) project, which developed and validated a series of objectives for adult functional competency free from school-based notions of literacy, is the most widely accepted approach to adult literacy and adult literacy education in the United States today. Yet a review of the project and its impact reveals that the APL…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Competency Based Education, Functional Literacy