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Prins, Esther; Monnat, Shannon; Clymer, Carol; Toso, Blaire Wilson – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2015
This paper uses data from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) to analyze the relationship between U.S. adults' self-reported health and proficiencies in literacy, numeracy, and technological problem solving. Ordinal logistic regression analyses showed that scores on all three scales were positively and…
Descriptors: Competence, Tests, Health, Knowledge Level
Ro, Eunseok; Ryu, Jin – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2013
The factors determining foreign language abilities have received copious attention from foreign language studies, and these research findings provided highly converging pedagogical implications for language teachers. However, not many studies have focused on non-academic learners especially with respect to their literacy skills. To fill this gap,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Literacy, Surveys, Student Placement
Huang, Jiuhuan; Newbern, Claudia – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2012
This article reports on a study that examines the effects of metacognitive reading strategy instruction on reading performance of adult ESL learners with limited English and literacy skills. The strategy instruction was implemented over a period of four months with a group of 18 learners who were enrolled in a high beginning literacy course in an…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Literacy, Reading Strategies, English (Second Language)
Binder, Katherine S.; Lee, Cheryl S. – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2012
Resilient readers are those who, despite their poor phonological decoding skills, have good comprehension abilities (Jackson & Doellinger, 2002). Thus far, these readers have been identified in college settings. The purpose of this study was to a) determine if this reader profile was present in a sample taken from an Adult Basic Education…
Descriptors: Profiles, Adult Basic Education, Literacy, Reading Comprehension