Toward Defining and Improving Quality in Adult Basic Education (eBook, PDF)

Issues and Challenges
Redaktion: Belzer, Alisa

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume revisits, problematizes, and expands the meaning of quality in the context of adult basic education. Organized around three themes-Accountability, Standards, and the Use of Documentation and Research; Program Structures and Instruction; and R

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135601324
• Artikelnr.: 39909195

Autorenporträt

Alisa Belzer

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. Part I: Accountability
Standards
and the Use of Documentation and Research. A. Belzer
Introduction: Why Quality? Why Now? L. Condelli
Accountability and Program Quality: The Third Wave. S.G. Stein
Equipped for the Future and Standards-Based Educational Improvement: Achieving Results That Matter for Adult Learners. D. Greenberg
Tales From the Field: Struggles and Challenges of Conducting Ethical and Quality Research in the Field of Adult Literacy. M.B. Bingman
C. Smith
Professional Development and Evidence-Based Practice in Adult Education. Part II: Program Structures and Instruction. H. Beder
Quality Introduction in Adult Literacy Education. A. Belzer
Volunteer One-to-One Tutoring: Critical Factors in Providing Quality Instruction. J.P. Comings
S. Cuban
Supporting Persistence of Adult Basic Education Students. J.P. Gee
Learning to Read as a Cultural Process. M.K. Gillespie
The Forgotten R: Why Adult Educators Should Care About Writing Instruction. M.J. Schmitt
M. Merson
The EMPower Project: Connecting Curriculum Development and Research. Part III: Rethinking Our Assumptions and Concepts. E. Hayes
Reconceptualizing Adult Basic Education and the Digital Divide. H.S. Wrigley
Beyond the Life Boat: Improving Language
Citizenship
and Training Services for Immigrants and Refugees. E.N. Askov
C. Kassab
E.L. Grinder
L.M. Semali
D. Weirauch
E.L. Saenz
B. Van Horn
Filling in the Black Box of Family Literacy: Implications of Research for Practice and Policy. S. Reder
Giving Literacy Away
Again: New Concepts of Promising Practice. V.L. Gadsden
The Adult Learner in Adult and Family Literacy: Gender and Its Intersection With Role and Context. G.A. Hull
M. Jury
J. Zacher
Possible Selves: Literacy
Identity
and Development in Work
School
and Community.