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Waterhouse, Peter; Virgona, Crina – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2004
A key challenge of Australia's vocational education and training (VET) system is to serve the broad needs of individuals, communities, and industries. This includes the provision of literacy and generic skills which meet the needs of all groups. This study investigates and documents workplace literacy in aged care facilities and call centres,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Older Adults
Sticht, Thomas G.; And Others – 1973
The major purposes of the project were to determine the nature of the literacy problem in the Army by studying the literacy demands of Army jobs together with the literacy skills of Army personnel, and to develop a literacy training program to provide job-related-functional, literacy skills. Literacy research and development performed by HumRRO…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Armed Forces, Educational Research, Functional Literacy
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Anger, W. Kent; Tamulinas, Alys; Uribe, Andrea; Ayala, Cesar – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2004
Mexican immigrants working at a wholesale nursery were involved in developing user instructions for a computer-based instruction system. Sixty-one Latinos with 0 to 16 years of education completed user instructions delivered on the computer, and all but 3 completed training content about the nursery. Based on objective criteria, program use was…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Immigrants, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
Mikulecky, Larry; And Others – 1995
The research on workplace literacy programs during the past two decades has revealed a great deal about the requisites for successful workplace literacy programs. The following have been identified as characteristics of effective workplace literacy programs: active involvement by all project partners; employee involvement in the early stages of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Cooperation, Educational Objectives
Woods, Gordon and Co., Toronto (Ontario). – 1988
An evaluation was conducted of three adult literacy and basic skills programs in Ontario (Canada) to identify the type and nature of clients served and services provided by the programs. Research methodology included mailed questionnaires (n=150, 78 percent returned), 92 personal and telephone interviews with instructors and administrators of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Foreign Countries
Jones, Paul L.; And Others – 1989
An intensive industry immersion program of reading and mathematics was conducted in Spring 1989 for employees at Valley Products, Inc., in a cooperative venture by the Literacy Foundation, Memphis, the Memphis City Schools Adult Education Program, and the company. Employee participants were assessed with the San Diego Quick Assessment Test to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Corporate Education, Educational Needs
Mikulecky, Larry – 1989
A general increase in the demand for workplace basic skills mirrors the general increase in societal basic skills demands. As a result, many adults are participating in second-chance basic skills education. Second-chance basic skills programs are offered by a wide variety of providers, but populations actually served by programs rarely amount to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Corporate Education
Schultz, Katherine – 1992
Although the National Workplace Literacy Program is relatively new, a new orthodoxy of program development based on particular understandings of literacy and learning has emerged. Descriptions of two model workplace education programs are the beginning points for an examination of the assumptions contained in most reports of workplace education…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Course Content
Rupert, Duane F. – 1988
One aspect of the Greece (New York) Central School District's Continuing Education Division is an adult literacy program for students who enter with a reading level below the sixth grade as measured by the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) (17 percent of students). Students at this level receive instruction in one of four environments: adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Diagnostic Teaching
Hellman, Linda – 1995
The generic workplace curricula in this document were developed in a workplace education project conducted in Pima County, Arizona, which served 524 workers (58 percent from minority groups) at 14 worksites. Generic curriculum and competencies were developed for each subject area rather than each specific worksite. Of 374 workers who completed the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Competence
Radencich, Marguerite C., Ed. – 1994
The following articles are included: "Reconceptualizing the Language of Adult Literacy" (Ilsley, Stahl); "Expanding the Definition of Literacy for Adult Remedial Readers" (Heathington); "Adult Literacy Programs" (Davis); "Stages in the Reading Development of Adults" (Norman, Malicky); "Reading Concepts…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
Naval Technical Training Command, Millington, TN. Research Branch. – 1989
A pilot program of the industry immersion model of reading and mathematics instruction was conducted on site at the Airport Field Maintenance Facility, Memphis, in January-February 1989. After this intensive immersion program (80 hours of instruction in 4 weeks), the 12 participants showed significant gains averaging 2.2 grade levels in reading…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Needs, Employee Attitudes
Lessard, Richard – 1995
For the past 4 years, Alpena Community College, in Michigan, has participated in the Workplace Partnership Project (WPP), a federally funded grant program designed to provide literacy skills to individuals currently employed but lacking the background to keep pace with the changes of the modern workplace. The process for establishing classes at a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Industrial Training, Job Skills, Labor Force Development
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New Horizons in Adult Education, 1993
Volume 3 includes the following: "Comparison of Computer and Audio Teleconferencing" (Norman Coombs); "Intellectual Suppression" [book review] (Roger Boshier). Contents of volume 4 are as follows: "Straight Time and Standard Brand Adult Education" (John Ohliger); "Comparison of Folk High Schools in Denmark, and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Australian Advisory Council on Languages and Multicultural Education, Canberra. – 1989
This collection of papers is a review of the adult literacy projects in Australia funded under the 1987-89 Adult Literacy Action Campaign (ALAC) of the National Policy on Languages. Fourteen authors describe various literacy projects and, often, their outcomes. The projects described are grouped in seven areas. On the subject of Literacy Training…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Disabilities
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