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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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The Relationship between Basic Skills and Operational Effectiveness in the British Army
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Swain, Jon – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2015
This paper draws on data that formed part of a major three-year longitudinal study (2008-2011), which set out to investigate basic skills (BS) provision and needs in the British army and its relationship to operational effectiveness. Using mixed methods, the findings draw on qualitative data from 60 semi-structured interviews with 26 young…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Basic Skills, Operations Research, Longitudinal Studies
Teachers' Attempts to Integrate Research-Based Principles into the Teaching of Numeracy with Post-16 Learners
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Swain, Jon; Swan, Malcolm – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2009
This paper describes some outcomes of a nine-month design-based research study into the professional development of 24 numeracy teachers with post-16 learners. The teachers were encouraged to integrate eight research-based teaching principles into their classroom practices as they implemented a set of discussion-based mathematics learning…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Numeracy, Teaching Methods, Classroom Observation Techniques
Issues Involved in Designing and Administering an Assessment Instrument to Measure Adult Learners' Progress in Numeracy Classes
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Swain, Jon; Brown, Margaret; Coben, Diana; Rhodes, Valerie; Ananiadou, Katerina; Brown, Peter – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2008
This paper describes the process of designing and administering a sufficiently valid and reliable assessment instrument to measure the progress in attainment of adult learners studying numeracy, and discusses some of the inherent difficulties that were involved. The fieldwork took place during 2003-2005 and involved a sample of 34 teachers and 412…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Psychometrics
"Beyond the Daily Application": Motivations for Adults Attending Numeracy Classes
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Swain, Jon – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2005
This article reports research findings from a 21-month empirical project called "Making Numeracy Teaching Meaningful to Adult Learners," which was funded by the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC). It looks at motivations behind adult learners returning to study numeracy in three FE colleges, and finds…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students