Intended to provide information to employers who want to hire and train hard-to-employ, disadvantaged workers, this manual summarizes and distills the most important lessons learned from the experiences of a great many employers involved in the National Alliance of Businessmen (NAB) Job Opportunities in the Business Sector (JOBS) Program and other…

The guide is primarily intended for adult educators, teachers, personnel in charge of illiterate workers, and personnel responsible for initiating and administering functional literacy programs. The method described in the guide is based upon an operational seminar in which the teaching cadres go into the field to rediscover the functional…

This document focuses on the use of puppets for educating the illiterate populations of the world in food production and family planning. It is presented as one practical and effective tool for the adult educator and literacy worker. When used as part of a total program of functional literacy for family life planning, it can help young adults gain…

This document, consisting of seven chapters and 12 appendixes, is a full final report of the Doolittle Family Education Center Experimental In-Service Training Project. Chapter II consists of the history and plan of the project including an explanation of the framework of the model that was used to conceptualize the project. Chapter III is a…

The purpose of this project grant was to develop an innovative system which will recruit, motivate, and retain the undereducated adult in the Western Maryland region of Appalachia. The evaluation of staff changes in attitude toward the device was made with positive results. The evaluation of class interaction between the experimental and the…

The prime objective of the Southeastern Project Staff Development is to provide trained leadership in Adult Basic Education (ABE). This institute specifically contributed toward this objective by preparing leadership and teaching personnel for programs which provided basic education to those who are visually impaired and undereducated and/or…

This program was designed to train teachers and aides working, or interested in working, in Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs on Indian reservations in 11 western and midwestern States. An Indian Advisory Council planned activities with Colorado State University staff. Plans involved an area-wide training institute at CSU to be followed by…

A study was conducted to explore the interaction effects of self-esteem level and perceived program utility on the retention and cognitive achievement of adult basic education (ABE) students. A total of 200 black adult students receiving public assistance and enrolling in an ABE program with a reading level below 8.0 comprised the sample. Two…

Proceedings of the 10th Conference of 100+ in New York City, which focused on Adult Basic Education, comprise this document. More than 150 participants and guests from 23 states and Canada attended the conference. Part I of the proceedings reports on the various sessions. The 45 papers presented at the conference are provided in Part II. The…

The purpose of this program was two-fold: to develop a model of adult basic education in corrections and to provide specialized training to selected individuals in adult basic education in corrections. Model development was accomplished through three activities: (1) needs assessment, (2) goals definition, and (3) model synthesis. Assessment of…

The three position papers on reading disability and illiteracy offer a description of the present position and boundaries of the problem which the current state of knowledge, research, and experience affords us. The first, "The Costs of Illiteracy" by A. Dale Tussing and Laurence B. DeWitt, attempts to describe these "costs" as the quickest way to…

Activities conducted under a grant from the Division of Adult Education Programs, U.S.O.E., are reported on. The Project included the 1970 National Institute on Instructional Television and Adult Basic Education and a variety of pre-Institute activities and post-Institute follow-up activities. State Directors of Adult Basic Education or their…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a study about the world's illiteracy. The writer recalls that the gap between underdeveloped and industrial nations is particularly wide in the field of education. About two fifths of the world's adult population, nearly 800 million people are unable to read or write. The…

This curriculum was compiled to serve as a guide, review, or supplement to the programmed materials currently in use in the Adult Basic Education Program sponsored by the University of Arkansas. The criterion for the materials selected was their ease of adaptability to a job-oriented educational approach. The document is divided into the following…

This literature search represents what is considered to be a majority of the relevant information on ABE staff training that has appeared post-1965. Primary focus of the search was on identifying concrete models for possible replication; however, other material that has practical or descriptive value for the field of adult basic education is also…