Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

Explore a collection of 871 high-quality multimedia instructional resources, informed by research, for use by adult educators. These resources have been reviewed by subject matter experts and recommended and approved by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE), Division of Adult Education and Literacy. Search the collection by category, keyword, date and more.

Showing 15 - 16 of 16 resources for "Research"

  • Cover of Teaching Adults to Read

    Teaching Adults to Read

    2012
    Instructional Material
    Research
    This booklet summarizes the emerging principles and trends in adult reading instruction identified in a report of the Reading Research Working Group: ResearchBased Principles for Adult Basic Education Reading Instruction.This group of adult education and reading experts was established by the National Institute for Literacy and co-sponsored by the National Center for the Study of Adult...
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  • Numeracy: A Challenge for Adult Education

    2003
    Research
    This paper discusses the concept of numeracy and the way it was operationalized in the Adult Literacy and Lifeskills (ALL) survey to develop items for numeracy assessment. The second part is the author’s suggestions for implementation of numeracy in educational settings based on his own study of numeracy in adult basic education.
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