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Download full textCarson, Joan G.; And Others – 1993
This study examined academic literacy (the reading, writing, and verbal demands on students) as a foundation for a collaboration between high school and university faculty designed to ease transitions by students from secondary to postsecondary education. The 3-year project was conducted at an urban public university that enrolls approximately…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Bound Students, College Faculty, College Preparation
Finkel, LeRoy – 1991
This book is designed for use in an introductory, college level course on educational technology, and no prior experience with computers or computing is assumed. The first of a series on technology in the classroom, the text provides a foundation for exploring more specific topics in greater depth. The book is divided into three…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Software, Courseware
Garcia, Reyna G.; Duran, Richard P. – 1991
A study was undertaken to develop a profile of Latino immigrant adults in a California community. Questions guiding the research included: how recently arrived Mexicans and their families integrate themselves into a new community and society; whether or not they do integrate themselves; and how they cope with literacy demands of everyday life. The…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Basic Education, Coping, Cultural Context
Collier, Walter V.; And Others – 1987
Through Project Learning through Industry and Volunteer Educators (Project LIVE), the Children's Aid Society has been addressing problems of literacy and school dropout in an educational partnership between junior high schools in New York City and a number of major corporations. LIVE brings together junior high school students (grades 7 and 8) who…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Corporate Support, Dropout Prevention
Stierer, Barry, Ed.; Maybin, Janet, Ed. – 1994
Articles presented include: "Introducing the New Literacy" (John Willinsky); "The Emergence of Literacy" (Nigel Hall); "Media Education: The Limits of a Discourse" (David Buckingham); "Extracts from 'Thought and Language' and 'Mind in Society'" (L. S. Vygotsky); "From Communicating to Talking" (Jerome Bruner); "What Does It Mean To Be Bilingual?"…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Bilingualism, Child Language, Classroom Communication
Schoua-Glusberg, Alicia S. – 1993
A study of the State Legalization Impact Assistance Grant (SLIAG) program in Illinois, federally funded under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, is presented. The program assists the state in providing English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) and civics instruction to help undocumented immigrants meet legal residency requirements. Data were…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Citizenship Education, Civics, English (Second Language)
Hellwege, Nancy C.; Sell, Irene L. – 1990
This manual, together with the continuing education or inservice teacher workshops for learning the Systematic Integrated Teaching/Learning Approach (SITLA), can help teachers use different approaches to work effectively with a population of adults 18 years and older who are enrolled in special education classes, college-based developmental skills…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adults, Basic Skills
Warren, Beth; Rosenberg, Ann S. – 1991
A study of biliteracy focuses on discourse as the unit of analysis needed to understand the task facing bilingual students. It investigated the way in which 22 high school students representing six different language groups in a bilingual basic skills course struggled with scientific language in an experiment on the community's drinking water.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Bilingual Education, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques
Quintero, Elizabeth; And Others – 1990
This handbook is a description of a Title VII Family Literacy Project implemented through El Paso Community College Literacy Programs in the El Paso, Texas area. The perspective is that literacy education in culturally and linguistically diverse areas must be an evolving, developmental process. The intergenerational Family Initiative for English…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Community Colleges, Cultural Context, Curriculum Development
Knapp, Michael S.; And Others – 1991
A major study of mathematics and literacy instruction in schools that serve children of poverty is currently being conducted to determine more effective educational practices. The following principal questions are addressed: (1) what new approaches are being attempted in schools serving children of poverty; (2) which of these approaches hold…
Descriptors: Children, Classroom Techniques, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1990
The 1989-90 Teacher Research and Computer Training Center Statewide Evaluation focused on the specific impact of six exemplary teacher center projects on teachers, schools, and students; 10 theme areas were identified for research. Evaluations were based on longitudinal, qualitative case studies of exemplary programs that have positively affected…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education, Demonstration Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1990
This document records the oral and written testimony given at a hearing on preparation of the work force for the year 2000 and beyond. Testimony was given by Senator Barbara Mikulski; John Lynch, whose company prepared the report, "Workforce 2000"; Joan Patterson and Nelson Brooks, coexecutive directors of the United Auto…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, Basic Skills, Educational Needs
Temple, Joanne – 1991
A study followed up 27 disadvantaged adult students (13 by interviews and student and tutor questionnaires, 12 by tutor questionnaires, and 2 by student and tutor questionnaires) who were identified as "ready to move on" from their adult basic education (ABE) program at Hackney Adult Education Institute and Hackney Reading Centre…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Case Studies
West, Linda; Wilkinson, Betty – 1981
Materials for a teacher workshop on assessing student needs for vocational English as a Second Language (VESL) are gathered. An annotated workshop outline presents the content and sequence of the workshop. Masters are provided for handouts and transparencies, which include an icebreaker activity, the workshop agenda, materials from the "Dictionary…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Assembly (Manufacturing), Auto Body Repairers, Auto Mechanics
Lane, Martha A. – 1990
This bibliography contains annotated citations of primarily non-commercial instructional materials for adult literacy education in English as a Second Language (ESL). All are for learners at beginning to intermediate English language skill levels, and were selected for ease of use by volunteers, relevance to an urban area, overall applicability to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Citizenship Education, Coping
