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Download full textProper, Len – 1994
This report summarizes the 18 programs that have received Governor's Workforce Excellence Awards in Ohio over the past 3 years. The 18 award winning programs (based in companies employing from 75 to 16,000 employees) focus on the basic literacy, thinking, and personal skills that every Ohio worker must possess. They were selected from nearly 100…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Awards
Push Literacy Action Now, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1992
PLAN, Inc., a nonprofit, community-based literacy training program, conducted a workplace literacy training program in partnership with the Washington (D.C.) Hospital Center (WHC). During an 18-month period, the program provided workplace literacy training and career development skills to employees in several service departments and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Hospital Personnel
Curry, Donna; Smith, Mikki – 1993
This handbook was designed to help adult literacy education teachers to understand the plastics industry, develop a curriculum, and teach basic skills classes in a plastics company. The book contains four main sections. The first section, on the basics of plastics, contains a brief history of the industry, an elementary description of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Basic Skills
Stephens, Marguerite – 1994
A collaborative project involved Collins and Aikman, Inc., Pitt Community College, and the U.S. Department of Education in an effort to improve the literacy level of the company's work force in order to increase productivity. A pretest of about 400 of the company's 513 workers in 1 division uncovered educational needs in reading and mathematics…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Educational Needs
Catonsville Community Coll., MD. – 1993
A cooperative project received a federal education grant to provide workplace literacy education in communications, mathematics, and problem-solving skills for the printing/graphic arts industry. Partners in the 18-month program were Catonsville Community College in Baltimore (Maryland), the printing industries of Maryland and Southern…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Basic Skills
Tout, Dave; And Others – 1994
This annotated bibliography documents the resources collected and held by the Adult Basic Education Resource and Information Service in Victoria, Australia. The resources and readings listed include materials that are related in some way to workplace-based education and training--not only specific workplace materials, but also materials related to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Annotated Bibliographies
Catonsville Community Coll., MD. – 1992
This curriculum guide provides lesson plans and student activities for instruction in reading, mathematics, and writing for adults in the printing graphic arts industry. It was developed through a federal education grant for a cooperative workplace literacy program involving Catonsville Community College in Baltimore, the printing industries of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Basic Skills
Pensacola Junior Coll., FL. – 1992
The Job Enhancement Training (JET) Program was a partnership between Pensacola Junior College (PJC) and Armstrong World Industries (Florida). The partners implemented a workplace literacy training program at the company's Pensacola plant using a five-phase social context curriculum model. The curriculum, based on job analysis, used small-group…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Basic Skills
Massachusetts Career Development Inst., Springfield. – 1993
The Massachusetts Career Development Institute (MCDI) refined and expanded the existing program of Workplace Education at the Geriatric Authority of Holyoke (GAH), Massachusetts. The 18-month program provided educational and support services on site to 60 employees at the GAH. Classes were held in English as a second language, adult basic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, English (Second Language)
Continuing Education Inst., Needham, MA. – 1993
The Continuing Education Institute's Workplace ESL (English-as-a-Second Language) and ABE (Adult Basic Education) programs improved the job experience for employees with language and literacy problems in Boston (Massachusetts) by teaching them language strategies that had direct application to their jobs. Health care administrators, supervisors,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Allied Health Occupations Education
