Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

This report presents insights from the past three Power in Numbers reports, accompanied by case studies that illustrate how organizations have implemented best practices in the real world.

This themed edition of the COABE Journal highlights educational programs, approaches, and professionals who work with adults currently serving or who have served time in correctional settings.

This report explores how improving the process by which edtech is developed and deployed in the marketplace can result in greater classroom impact for adult educators and learners.

This introductory guide for educators is part of the Power in Numbers initiative, funded by the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE). Power in Numbers aims to help adult learners receive the higher-level math skills they need to succeed. This guide provides educators with step-by-step instructions for identifying, reviewing and remixing high-quality OER.

These resource sheets for administrators and educators are part of the Power in Numbers initiative funded by the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE). Power in Numbers aims to help adult students receive the higher-level math skills they need to succeed. This resource provides administrators and educators with an understanding of what open educational resources (OER) are, why they are useful and how to get started using them.

Power in Numbers aims to help adult students receive the higher-level math skills they need to succeed in the real world. This video series comprises of three short videos in English and Spanish and an accompanying video discussion guide. The series serves to promote the importance and relevance of advanced math skills to inspire adult learners.

This report explores the potential for technology to enhance the teaching and learning of advanced math skills for adults.

This presentation describes how math anxiety affects learners and specific techniques to help ease and overcome these effects.

Supplemental videos and materials for Advance Unit 3 - Math, designed to help adult educators implement the instructional advances required by CCR standards. 

This study investigated whether five web-based instructional programs increased the capacity of adult basic education (ABE) programs to provide efficient and effective leaning opportunities to adult students.

A special issue of the Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary and Basic Education devoted to numeracy.

A repository of standards-based units and lessons created by Kentucky Adult Education instructors.

A searchable database of over 7,000 local literacy programs and GED testing centers across the country.

This webinar, published by the Commission on Adult Basic Education (COABE) reviews a variety of free technology resources that can be integrated into the adult education classroom. 

This report explores the potential for technology to enhance the teaching and learning of advanced math skills to adults. 

IMET is a tool for evaluating a comprehensive textbook or textbook series for alignment to the Shifts and major features of states’ challenging academic content standards.

Achieve the Core’s Aligned is a publication dedicated to the conversation about Common Core aligned instructional materials.

BetterLesson provides a well-organized collection of teacher-created mathematics lessons that address each of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for mathematics.

CCR Standards-based professional development (PD) Math materials made for adult educators.

The Math Advanced Units contain three components: a facilitator’s guide, an annotated PowerPoint presentation, and participant materials.

This video features a math lesson on teaching inequalities using the concept first, notation last teaching strategy.

Six short, interactive modules on addition and subtraction, including two videos.

Ten interactive tutorials on algebra topics. 

This guide offers a way to manage higher-level math standards to address time constraints and other potential impediments to full implementation. 

Inside Mathematics provides a resource for educators (teachers and administrators) who strive to provide the best mathematics instruction they can for their students.