Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection
Explore a collection of 838 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.
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Retail Customer Service Course
2010
This resource supports the teaching of specific education and training content that can be implemented by classroom instructors in the context of a particular career cluster.
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Supporting the Use of Data through Professional Development
2010
This resource guide, developed by the American Institutes for Research, highlights four states’ efforts in integrating NRS-related professional development on data use into their accountability and professional development systems.
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Teaching Excellence in Adult Literacy (TEAL)
2010
This resource gives an overview of the Department of Education's Teaching Excellence in Adult Literacy (TEAL) project.
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The Breaking Through Practice Guide
2010
This guide is a compilation of practices developed and implemented by community colleges involved in the Breaking Through initiative from 2005 through 2008.
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The three divides: The digital divide and its relation to basic skills and employment in Portland, USA and London, England.
2010
The context of this comparative study was the rising importance of digital competence and access to computers as part of contemporary employ-ability. Recent studies have consistently shown that individuals who have ʻdigitalʼ accessʼ have had more education and higher status occupations. This study capitalised on the availability of comparable longitudinal research resources relevant to the target populations – in the UK, the 1970 British Cohort Study and in Portland, Oregon, the Longitudinal Study of Adult Learning.
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TIAN in Action: Teachers' Stories
2010
The Teachers Investigating Adult Numeracy (TIAN) Project is a professional development program piloted and field-tested with Adult Basic Education teachers in six states across the country.
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What Community College Developmental Mathematics Students Understand about Mathematics
2010
Carnegie Senior Partner Jim Stigler and colleagues Karen B. Givvin and Belinda J. Thompson from the University of California, Los Angeles were commissioned by Carnegie to investigate what community college developmental mathematics students understand about mathematics and how we might help turn around the alarming statistics that show that an enormous number of those students drop out of college because they aren’t successful in math courses.
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