When adult learners return to formal education after a period of absence, coping with change is a constant and often omnipresent challenge. As they come to break down previous barriers to success in an educational arena, many adult learners are able to change the perceptions they have of themselves as learners. Previously held assumptions are…

THESE WORKBOOKS, WHICH ARE USED IN THE ADULT BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAM IN DANBURY, CONNECTICUT, PROVIDE TEACHING MATERIALS AND DRILL EXERCISES IN MULTIPLICATION. PART I CONTAINS MULTIPLICATION TABLES, PROBLEMS, AND DRILL INVOLVING THE NUMERALS TWO THROUGH NINE. PART II CONTAINS PROBLEMS AND DRILL EXERCISES USING THE NUMERALS TEN TO TWELVE, NUMBERS…

The document contains 27 stories selected for adults who are reading from the second grade to 3.5 grade level. The title of the story, its appropriate grade level, and the author's name are listed for each story. Included with each story are several content-oriented questions of varying formats. (AG)

THE AUTHOR BRIEFLY REVIEWS STUDIES AND REPORTS ON ADULT BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN LATIN AMERICA, WHERE IN MOST COUNTRIES AT LEAST 40 PERCENT OF THE ADULT POPULATION IS ILLITERATE. EDUCATION HAS BEEN RELATED TO NATIONAL ECONOMIES, HEALTH, AND SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PROBLEMS. NATIONAL BUDGETS FOR LITERACY PROGRAMS ARE GROWING AND IN SOME COUNTRIES…

An attempt to apply a theoretical model of behavior to an analysis of teaching styles (nomothetic, idiographic, and transactional) of adult basic education instuctors concludes that the Gentzels-Thelen model provides an adequate tool; that illiterate adult students appreciate having their interests acknowledged, yet expect that teachers will be…

Functional literacy is defined as that educational level comparable to the eight years of schooling required of children in the Yugoslavian elementary system.'' Census results show that 19.7 percent of the population of age ten or over is illiterate. This paper considers research findings on the conceptualization and organization of elementary…

French-speaking inhabitants of Errol, New Hampshire, learn to communicate in the English language. (CK)

A description of several federally sponsored projects aimed at developing new materials and instructional strategies to improve the effectiveness of present educational programs for undereducated adults." (Authors/AA)

A critique of the annual report from the National Center for Educational Statistics, Adult Basic Education Program Statistics: Students and Staff Data." (EB)

Provides examples of how Internet-based materials are being used to teach adults number sense, data analysis, graphing and measurement as well as to provide practice in computation and estimation. (Author)

Analysis of interviews with five adult basic education tutors led to a three-dimensional model using interviews as texts. The model considers texts as (1) particular versions of reality; (2) a way of defining identity; and (3) a particular selection of conventions. (SK)

This investigation was undertaken to investigate the threshold levels of literacy and language proficiency necessary for adult learners to use the Internet for independent learning. The report is triangulated around learning from large-scale surveys, learning from the literature, and learning from the field. Reported findings include: (1)…