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LITERACY: RESOURCES :
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EDUCATION: ADULT EDUCATION:
LINCS: Literacy Information and Communication System
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LINCS: Literacy Information and Communication System
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The LINCS Resource Collections are online subject-oriented collections of
high-quality instructional resources, including multi-media resources,
informed by research, especially scientifically based and other rigorous
research, for use by adult education and literacy educators. The
high-quality resources in the LINCS Resource Collections are limited to
items that have completed a rigorous internal and external process in
which researchers and other experts in the field reviewed the resources
and found them to be grounded in scientifically based and/or other
rigorous research. If you are new to the field of adult basic and literacy
education, a brief background document for adult literacy is available.
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The Workforce Competitiveness Resource Collection contains resources on
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Basic Skills
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Featured Resources
Reading: Direct and Rich Vocabulary Instruction. In Vocabulary Instruction
(J.F. Baumann and E.J. Kameenuie (Eds.) Vocabulary Instruction. New York:
Guilford Press. This chapter provides teachers with ways to set up a
language rich experience in the classroom for deep understanding of word
meanings.
http://lincs.ed.gov/lincs/resourcecollections/BasicReading
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Writing: Literacy and Numeracy for Adults: Write to Communicate This
excellent website from the National Centre for Literacy and Numeracy for
Adults in New Zealand has developed research to practice materials for
educators and adult learners on Learning Progressions (from low literate
to higher literate levels) for Numeracy (Make Sense of Numbers to Solve
Problems, Reasons Statistically, Measure and Interpret Shape and Space),
and Literacy (Listen and Speak to communicate, Read with Understanding,
Write to Communicate.)
http://lincs.ed.gov/lincs/resourcecollections/BasicWriting
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Mathematics & Numeracy:
More Than Reshuffling: Lessons from an Innovative Remedial Math
Program at the City University of New York> More Than Reshuffling is a
companion paper to More Than Rules
http://lincs.ed.gov/lincs/resourcecollections/
abstracts/basicskills/RC_skills_abs58
and it is suggested that More Than Rules be read before this article.
http://lincs.ed.gov/lincs/resourcecollections/BasicMath
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Health Literacy: Health Information Literacy Outreach: Improving Health
Literacy and Access to Reliable Health Information Online in Rural Oxford
County Maine The goal of this health information outreach project was to
increase access to health information and improve health literacy in rural
areas of Maine.
http://lincs.ed.gov/lincs/resourcecollections/BasicHealth
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LINCS Resource Collections/Basic Skills
Reading
http://lincs.ed.gov/lincs/resourcecollections/BasicReading
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Products/Materials
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Title: Acquiring new vocabulary through book discussion groups
This is only one of many lesson plans from Read Write Think that can be
used/adapted for the adult education classroom.
Title: Creating Authentic Materials and Activities for the Adult Literacy
Classroom
This handbook is based on the results of "The Literacy Practices of Adult
Learners Study" which focused on the nature and impact of two dimensions
of classroom practice in adult basic education.
Title: Direct and Rich Vocabulary Instruction. In Vocabulary Instruction
(J.F. Baumann and E.J. Kameenuie (Eds.) Vocabulary Instruction. New York:
Guilford Press.
This chapter provides teachers with ways to set up a language rich
experience in the classroom for deep understanding of word meanings.
Title: Effective Practices for Developing Reading Comprehension
This research article summarizes much of the research about reading
comprehension and what good readers do when they read.
Title: Fluency development: Practice means progress
This resource introduces adult education practitioners to fluency's
definition, importance, and effective techniques, and recommends guided
reading through modeling, simultaneous reading, assistance and correction,
and combinations of these methods.
Title: Introducing comprehension strategies to adult readers
This multi-media resource (website link, text, and video clips) provides
practitioners with practical strategies to help struggling readers with
comprehension skills.
Title: Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy
This resource from New Zealand provides a framework that indicates what
adult learners can know and can do as they develop their expertise in
literacyListen with Understanding, Speak to Communicate, Read with
Understanding, Write to Communicate.
Title: Literacy and Numeracy for Adults
This excellent website from the National Centre for Literacy and Numeracy
for Adults in New Zealand has developed research to practice materials for
educators and adult learners on Learning Progressions (from low literate
to higher literate levels) for Numeracy (Make Sense of Numbers to Solve
Problems, Reasons Statistically, Measure and Interpret Shape and Space),
and Literacy (Listen and Speak to communicate, Read with Understanding,
Write to Communicate.)
Title: Many Literacies: Modules for training adult beginning readers and
tutors.
This handbook grew out of the experiences of the teachers and students in
a community based literacy program. It is both a documentation of the
experiences of the program and a guide for teachers.
Title: Metacognition, Cognitive Strategy Instruction, and Reading in Adult
Literacy
This chapter describes the role of metacognition and cognitive strategies
in reading comprehension and promising techniques to improve metacognitve
monitoring.
Title: Reading and Adult English Language Learners: A review of the
Research
This resource synthesizes and reviews an extensive body of research on
adult English language learners and learning to read, including what
facilitates this process.
Title: Reading Next: A Vision for Action and Research in Middle and High
School Literacy (Second edition)
Reading Next is a report that provides recommendations for meeting the
needs of the eight million struggling adolescent readers and provides a
vision for capturing the effects of what elements work, when, and for
whom.
Title: Reading Skills for Today's Adults
This resource is an interactive website where students can practice their
reading fluency with leveled passages of high interest topics to adults
(e.g. "Tom lost his job", "Wanted: A good repair shop", "A healthy
pregnancy", "Safe at home").
Title: Reversing Reading Failure in Young Adults
This article was written by two educators, with experience working in
Harvard's Reading Lab, who are developing research-based programs for
nationwide dissemination at the Boys Town Reading Center (part of the
National Resource & Training Center).
Title: Study Circle Guide: Research-based Adult Reading Instruction.
This very comprehensive study circle guide provides all that one would
need to conduct a study circle for teachers of adults to give them the
background research on reading instruction as well as opportunities to
reflect on their practice. The guide provides detailed descriptions of how
to conduct study circles, including lesson plans for each of the three
days, do's and don'ts, general facilitation tips, class readings, and
homework readings.
Title: Teaching learners what reading is all about
This resource introduces adult education practitioners to the components
of reading that are part of making more fluent readers. It provides
details, including objectives, audience, time, agendas, session
preparation, and resources for 13 lessons designed to help learners
understand the research-based components of reading.
Title: Teaching Reading to Adult English Language Learners: A Reading
Instruction Staff Development Program
This comprehensive and self-contained resource was developed by the Center
for Applied Linguistics for the Adult ESOL Program, Office of Adult And
Community Education, Fairfax Co. Public Schools. The resource contains
materials for four workshop sessions, including a Facilitator Guide,
Facilitator Notes, and Participant Handouts. The sessions include:
Introduction to Teaching Reading, Selecting Appropriate Texts and
Developing a Good Reading Lesson, Focus on Pre-Reading, Putting a Reading
Lesson Together.
Title: Teaching Reading to Adults: A pack of resources and ideas for adult
literacies tutors
This tutor/teacher pack contains many strategies and ideas for teaching
reading to adults. It covers topics such as working with low level
readers, working with mixed ability groups, finding appropriate materials,
teaching and learning approaches.
Title: Techniques for Teaching Beginning Level Reading to Adults
The author has teaching experience at The Community Center in Cambridge,
MA where her students are at the beginning-level of reading (equivalent to
grade 0-2). She is concerned about applying reading acquisition research
conducted with children to teaching adults in ABE classes to read.
Research Papers/Articles
Title: A Focus on Vocabulary
This booklet is a compilation of research on vocabulary. While much of the
research comes from the K-12 literature, the concepts are highly practical
for use in the adult education classroom.
Title: Affecting change in literacy practices: Impact of two dimensions of
instruction
Motivated by issues of intergenerational literacy, the researchers
investigated the extent to which the use of authentic materials and the
level of collaboration between students and teachers affect learners'
literacy practices outside the classroom. The researchers used mixed
methods and provide data as well as learner snapshots in this resource.
Title: How should adult ESL reading instruction differ from ABE reading
instruction?
This article provides a research based rationale to identify which general
teaching reading strategies work for all learners and which of those
strategies do not work for English Language Learners.
Title: Improving Literacy of L1-Non-Literate and L1-Literate Adult English
as a Second Language Learners
This small study examines and compares the impact of a whole-part-whole
method on literate and non-literate non-native speakers of English
learning to read.
Title: Learning To Read: Literacy Acquisition by Children and Adults.
This report examines whether research on children's reading acquisition
can inform adult literacy instruction. It first considers the implications
of both narrower and broader concepts of literacy . The report then
reviews the literature on (a) how children learn to read, (b)
characteristics of low-literate adults, and (c) the practices of adult
literacy programs. This review concludes that there are both important
commonalities and differences between how children learn to read and how
adults can be taught to read in literacy programs.
Title: Patterns of Global, Vowel, and Consonant Spelling Development in
Adult Literacy Students
This study involved adult low-literacy students who were enrolled in an
Orton-Gillingham-based literacy program for four semesters during which
time they received multisensory reading & spelling instruction consisting
of four books specifically developed for adult learners.
Title: Patterns of Word Recognition Errors Among Adult Basic Education
Native and Nonnative Speakers of English
This two-page research brief addresses teaching higher level readers and
how to support continued progress to higher levels of reading; their
primary focus was on readers error patterns.
Title: Reading comprehension strategies for adult literacy outcomes
This research comprises content analysis of three common standardized
tests for adults, commonly accepted as reasonable proxies for the global
construct of adult literacy, to determine the comprehension skills that
adults need to pass them.
Title: The Role of Vocabulary Instruction in Adult Basic Education
Vocabulary has long been recognized as a key factor in reading
comprehension. In this chapter, Curtis analyzes research and theories on
vocabulary, vocabulary acquisition, and reading comprehension. She
presents approaches to vocabulary instruction that have been proven
effective and also makes recommendations for practice, research, and
policy.
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LINCS Resource Collections/Basic Skills
Writing
http://lincs.ed.gov/lincs/resourcecollections/BasicWriting
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Products/Materials
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Title: Dialogue Journals: Interactive Writing to Develop Language and
Literacy.
This article describes the teaching method of dialogue journals as an
interactive, student-centered way for teachers to open channels of
communication with their students in a natural context.
Title: Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (background)
This report provides the theoretical and research base behind the Learning
Progressions for Literacy and Numeracy and the allied resources.
Title: Literacy and Numeracy for Adults: Write to Communicate
This excellent website from the National Centre for Literacy and Numeracy
for Adults in New Zealand has developed research to practice materials for
educators and adult learners on Learning Progressions (from low literate
to higher literate levels) for Numeracy (Make Sense of Numbers to Solve
Problems, Reasons Statistically, Measure and Interpret Shape and Space),
and Literacy (Listen and Speak to communicate, Read with Understanding,
Write to Communicate.)
Title: Many Literacies: Modules for training adult beginning readers and
tutors.
This handbook grew out of the experiences of the teachers and students in
a community based literacy program. It is both a documentation of the
experiences of the program and a guide for teachers.
Title: The Power of Writing, the Writing of Power: Approaches to Adult
ESOL Writing Instruction
The author presents five current approaches to teaching second language
writing, the theoretical perspectives on which they are based, their
implications for practice, and the messages they send learners.
Title: Writing Next: Effective Strategies To Improve Writing Of
Adolescents In Middle And High Schools
This report identifies 11 elements of current writing instruction found to
be effective for helping adolescent students learn to write well and to
use writing as a tool for learning.
Research Papers/Articles
Title: Collaborative Writing
This study on collaborative writing is a spin off of the Effective
Practice Study in writing, also conducted by the NRDC.
Title: Learning to Write in the Laptop Classroom
This study attempted to determine if students who used laptop computers
for writing tasks in the classroom and in their homes showed improvement
in the quality of their writing.
Title: Research in Writing: Implications for Adult Literacy Education
This resource is chapter three, volume 2 in the NCSALL publication, Review
of Adult Learning and Literacy. It is a meta analysis of various studies
and trends about the "forgotten of the three R's-writing."
Title: Some Consequences of Writing Assessment
This article reviews research on ways that writing assessments in the
United States have affected the way writing is taught. The author focuses
on writing assessments given at the end of high school but the points she
makes are applicable to the adult literacy classroom.
Title: Teaching and Learning Writing: A Review of Research and Practice
This research report is the first phase of a British study that intends to
identify principles of effective teaching and learning of writing for
adult literacy learners.
Title: Using Research on Writing
This article is not a research study, rather a brief literature review of
writing research and its applicability to basic skills adults. It is part
of a publication focused on writing and adults, and examines mostly the
k-12 and college research base, applying it to improving adults' writing.
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LINCS Resource Collections/Basic Skills
Mathematics & Numeracy
http://lincs.ed.gov/lincs/resourcecollections/BasicMath
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Products/Materials
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Title: Accommodating Math Students with Learning Disabilities
Mathematics-based learning disabilities- or dyscalculia- are described
along with common problems that learners with dyscalculia may encounter.
Some teaching strategies and accommodations are summarized for instructors
working with adults with such learning disabilities.
Title: Adult Education Content Standards Warehouse
The Adult Education Content Standards Warehouse is a website from a
project funded by the U.S. Department of Education to support states in
developing and using content standards to improve the quality of adult
education programs.
Title: Algebraic Thinking in Adult Education
This resource explores the reasons that algebraic thinking is necessary
for adults to enable them to meet the demands of the workplace of the
future.
Title: "Bestimation"-Using basic calculators in the numeracy classroom
This report looks at how the imaginative use of calculators can enhance
teaching and learning in adult numeracy classes.
Title: Changing the Way We Teach Math: A Manual for Teaching Basic Math to
Adults
This document is a manual for teaching basic math to adults. Written as
part of a project funded by the Canadian National Office of Literacy and
Learning (NOLL), it was designed for use by adult basic education
instructors who are interested in changing their teaching practice.
Title: Construction Math Toolkit
This math toolbox combines fun, industry-required math lessons with
supplemental academic and career guidance information. It was developed at
Renton Technical College in Renton, WA as part of a Transition Math
Project.
Title: Developing Adults Numerate Thinking: Getting Out From Under the
Workbooks
In this article, the author makes a case for substantive change in how and
what we teach in mathematics.
Title: Famous Problems in the History of Mathematics
The web site, Famous Problems in the History of Mathematics, discusses
seven math problems that have puzzled mathematicians throughout history.
Title: FDIC Money Smart-A Financial Education Program
The FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) has developed Money Smart
to help adults outside the financial mainstream enhance their money skills
and create positive banking relationships.
Title: GED as Project: Math & the GED
This resource was developed to help adult education students in Virginia
achieve success on the GED.
Title: Hands on Banking: Adults Instructor Guide.
The Wells Fargo Hands on Banking program is an interactive and engaging
financial education program designed for self-paced individual learning
and group use.
Title: Illuminating Understanding: Performance Assessment in Mathematics
The author describes what performance assessment is in the context of
teaching math to adult learners.
Title: More Than Reshuffling: Lessons from an Innovative Remedial Math
Program at the City University of New York
More Than Reshuffling is a companion paper to More Than Rules
(http://lincs.ed.gov/lincs/resourcecollections/abstracts/basicskills/RC_skills_abs58)
and it is suggested that More Than Rules be read before this article.
Title: The Importance of Algebra for Everyone
Tricia Donovans article, The Importance of Algebra for Everyone, discusses
how algebraic thinking can be taught to ABE, Pre-GED, and ESOL students.
The article summarizes the importance of numeracy for success in college
and as citizens in the 21st century.
Title: The Inclusion of Numeracy in Adult Education
Chapter 5 of NCSALLs 2002 Review of Adult Learning and Literacy, The
Inclusion of Numeracy in Adult Basic Education, provides a comprehensive
view of the state of numeracy instruction in the United States and other
English speaking nations.
Title: Literacy and Numeracy for Adults: Make Sense of Numbers to Solve
Problems.
This website from the National Centre for Literacy and Numeracy for Adults
in New Zealand has developed research to practice materials for educators
and adult learners on Learning Progressions (from low literate to higher
literate levels) for Numeracy (Make Sense of Numbers to Solve Problems,
Reasons Statistically, Measure and Interpret Shape and Space), and
Literacy (Listen and Speak to communicate, Read with Understanding, Write
to Communicate.)
Title: Math AnxietyLiterature Review with References
This literature review by a mathematics professor at Humboldt State
University focuses on the adult who suffers from math anxiety, with
occasional references concerning math anxiety throughout the lifespan.
Title: More Complicated Than It Seems: A Review of Literature About Adult
Numeracy Instruction
This review of literature about adult numeracy instruction was prepared by
a Canadian basic skills math instructor in her own search for the answer
to the question of how ABE instructors can apply research findings to
their practice.
Title: More Than Rules: College Transition Math Teaching for GED Graduates
at the City University of New York
This paper describes how the College Transition Program (CTP) has
attempted to strengthen GED graduates transition into The City University
of New York (CUNY) through a semester of reading, writing, mathematics,
and academic advisement.
Title: Numeracy Matters
Myrna Manly reviews research on adult numeracy contained in two important
studies: the Adult Literacy and Lifeskills Survey (ALL) and the Adult
Education Program Study (AEPS). Both studies conclude that often the
numeracy skills of adults are not sufficient to function successfully in
todays society.
Title: Preparing Students for College-level Math
Part of the National College Transitions Network (NCTN) Promising Practice
Series. This series presents information on strategies from the field that
are designed to promote the transition of ABE students to postsecondary
education.
Research Papers/Articles
Title: A Review of the Literature in Adult Numeracy: Research and
Conceptual Issues
This review is the first major product of the Adult Numeracy Initiative, a
two-year project funded by the Office of Vocational and Adult Education,
U.S. Department of Education, and conducted by the American Institute for
Research. The report provides a synthesis of research on several facets of
adult numeracy, including instructional approaches, interventions, and
assessment.
Title: An Environmental Scan of Adult Numeracy Professional Development
Initiatives and Practices
This environmental scan examines recent and current numeracy professional
development initiatives in the United States and informs numeracy research
and other initiatives at the state and federal levels.
Title: Beyond the Daily Application: Making Numeracy Teaching Meaningful
to Adult Learners
This project, conducted in three colleges in England, explored adult
learners' relations with numeracy in both formal and informal contexts.
The two principal methods of data collection were semi-participant
observation within the classroom, and semi-structured interviews.
Title: Building Academic Skills in Context: Testing the Value of Enhanced
Math Learning in CTE
An experimental study tested a model for enhancing mathematics instruction
in five high school career and technical education (CTE) programs
(agriculture, auto technology, business/ marketing, health, and
information technology).
Title: The Components of Numeracy
The research article examines the nature of numeracy. After a thorough
review of curricular and assessment frameworks and standards documents
from adult education, K-12, and community college the authors discuss the
definitions of numeracy and its difference from mathematics.
Title: Designing Instruction with the Components of Numeracy in Mind
The article discusses the importance of using the components and
subcomponents of numeracy when planning math instruction.
Title: Does Numeracy Matter More?
This study, based on two longitudinal studies in the UK, challenges the
assumption that numeracy is less important than literacy for functioning
effectively in adult life.
Title: Proportional Reasoning: Lessons from Research in Data and Chance -
Mathematics/Numeracy
This article describes two contexts where proportional reasoning is needed
for a thorough understanding of the problem and the reactions of students
to the tasks.
Title: Using Part-Whole Thinking in Math
The article, "Using Part-Whole Thinking in Math" by Dorothea Steinke,
discusses the importance of teaching students this approach to
understanding mathematics.
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LINCS Resource Collections/Basic Skills
Health Literacy
http://lincs.ed.gov/lincs/resourcecollections/BasicHealth
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Products/Materials -- Research Papers/Articles
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Products/Materials
Title: Health Literacy in Adult Basic Education: Designing Lessons, Units,
and Evaluation Plans for an Integrated Curriculum
This guide is designed to help adult educators to integrate health
literacy skills into their current adult education instruction.
Title: Life Skills to Life Saving: Health Literacy in Adult Education
This concise 4-page article sums up why adult literacy programs are
effective and important venues in which to address health literacy, and
also gives some specific ideas on how to do this.
Title: National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy
This National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy seeks to engage
organizations, professionals, policymakers, communities, individuals, and
families in a linked, multisector effort to improve health literacy.
Title: Queens Library Health Literacy Curriculum for ESOL Learners
Written for a library-based class to improve English language skills in
the context of learning about health, this can be used in ESOL classes as
well. There are beginning and intermediate curricula, each containing 20
units with lesson plans, worksheets and mp3s.
Title: Research-based Health Literacy Materials and Instruction Guide
These Health Literacy Materials were developed for an adult literacy
research study and experimentally tested using a randomized design. While
the complete results have not yet been formally published, there were some
important findings, which showed that the materials were effective at both
improving literacy skills and health knowledge.
Title: Staying Healthy: An English Learners Guide to Health Care and
Healthy Living
The Staying Healthy resource guide is an informational resource for
students or patients, but can also be used to address ESOL competencies
with the accompanying Teachers Guide. The main book includes sections on
health care, your doctor, medicines, nutrition, chronic diseases, and
general rules of staying healthy.
Research Papers/Articles
Title: The Health Literacy of Americas Adults: Results from the 2003
National Assessment of Adult Literacy
The Health Literacy of Americas Adults is the first release of the
National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) health literacy results. The
results are based on assessment tasks designed specifically to measure the
health literacy of adults living in the United States.
Title: Health Information Literacy Outreach: Improving Health Literacy and
Access to Reliable Health Information Online in Rural Oxford County Maine
The goal of this health information outreach project was to increase
access to health information and improve health literacy in rural areas of
Maine.
Title: Literacy and Health in America
This report explores the relationship between literacy and health by
re-examining data from two large-scale surveys of adult literacy conducted
by ETS for the U.S. Department of Education: the National Adult Literacy
Survey (NALS) and the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS).
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LINCS Resource Collections
Program Management
http://lincs.ed.gov/lincs/resourcecollections/ProgramManagement
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Assessment:Module 3: Communicating Success to Stakeholders This
three-hour, self-paced course was designed for use by volunteers, teachers
and program administrators in the field of ABE who are interested in
learning how to effectively use data to identify and/or clarify their
programs mission and highlight its success.
Learning
Disabilities:Charting the Course: Supporting the Career Development of
Youth with Learning Disabilities This guide aims to help youth service
professionals better understand issues related to learning disabilities so
they can help youth with diagnosed and undiagnosed learning disabilities
develop individual strategies that will enable them to succeed in the
workplace.
Program
Improvement:Learners' Engagement in Adult Literacy Education (NCSALL
Research Brief) This research brief describes a qualitative study
conducted by NCSALL researchers to identify and examine contextual factors
that contribute to engagement in adult education. The purpose of the study
was to examine how learning contexts shape learner engagement.
Transitions to Post-secondary
Education:Postsecondary Success of Young Adults: System Impact
Opportunities in Adult Education Findings and Recommendations This report
was developed as part of the Postsecondary Success initiative funded by
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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LINCS Resource Collections
Workforce Competitiveness Resource
http://lincs.ed.gov/lincs/resourcecollections/Workforce
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The Workforce Competitiveness Resource Collection includes resources
applicable to workforce basic skills education, English language
acquisition, and/or technology. Although these topics are separate, some
of the selected resources will be useful across topics. For example, a
resource listed under English Language Acquisition might also be
appropriate for use under Workforce Education, or one listed under
Technology might be useful with adults in the workforce.
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Additional resources, organized by career clusters or occupational
categories, can be found in the Career Pathways Instructional Materials
Library. Professionals in state adult education departments shared these
examples as online materials that their teachers use in the classroom to
build basic skills and prepare adults for success at work. Most materials
in this library have not been reviewed by the Collections external content
experts; externally reviewed resources are marked by an asterisk ().
English Language Acquisition | Technology and Distance Learning |
Workforce Education
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Featured Resources
English Language
Acquisition:Working with Adult English Language Learners with Limited
Literacy: Research, Practice, and Professional Development This manual,
using the career pathway programCarreras en Salud (Health Careers) as an
example, provides information on components, considerations, and how-to
information to develop a bridge career for ABE and adult ESL students.
Technology:Integrating Computers in Adult Basic Skills Education In this
concise and practical research resource the author provides a framework to
guide effective integration of computers into the adult education
classroom.
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Workforce
Education:Integrating Adult Basic and Occupational Training: A Review of
Research and Practice This report prepared by Commonwealth Corporation for
the Rhode Island Economic Policy Council is a compilation of previous
studies done as well as additional material to examine evidence in support
of the integration of basic skills and occupational training.
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Overall Website Contents
Overview
Regional Resource Centers
Resource Collections
Basic Skills
Program Management
Workforce Competitiveness
Discussion Lists
Applying Research
Learning to Achieve Reading Profiles (ASRP)
Reading Components
Teaching Approaches
Career Pathways
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxx
http://daviddillard.businesscard2.com
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General Internet & Print Resources
http://guides.temple.edu/general-internet
COUNTRIES
http://guides.temple.edu/general-country-info
EMPLOYMENT
http://guides.temple.edu/EMPLOYMENT
TOURISM
http://guides.temple.edu/tourism
DISABILITIES
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Bushell, R. & Sheldon, P. (eds),
Wellness and Tourism: Mind, Body, Spirit,
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Wellness Tourism: Bibliographic and Webliographic Essay
David P. Dillard
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