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245 0 0 _aToward defining and improving quality in adult basic education /
_cedited by Alisa Belzer.
264 1 _aMahwah, N.J. :
_bLawrence Erlbaum Associates,
_c2007.
300 _axiii, 327 pages :
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_c24 cm.
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490 1 _aRutgers invitational symposium on education series
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _gPart I.
_tAccountability, Standards, and the Use of Documentation and Research --
_tIntroduction: Why Quality? Why Now? /
_rA. Belzer --
_tAccountability and Program Quality: The Third Wave /
_rL. Condelli --
_tEquipped for the Future and Standards-Based Educational Improvement: Achieving Results That Matter for Adult Learners /
_rS.G. Stein --
_tTales From the Field: Struggles and Challenges of Conducting Ethical and Quality Research in the Field of Adult Literacy /
_rD. Greenberg --
_tProfessional Development and Evidence-Based Practice in Adult Education /
_rM.B. Bingman, C. Smith --
_gPart II.
_tProgram Structures and Instruction --
_tQuality Introduction in Adult Literacy Education /
_rH. Beder --
_tVolunteer One-to-One Tutoring: Critical Factors in Providing Quality Instruction /
_rA. Belzer --
_tSupporting Persistence of Adult Basic Education Students /
_rJ.P. Comings, S. Cuban --
_tLearning to Read as a Cultural Process /
_rJ.P. Gee --
_tThe Forgotten R: Why Adult Educators Should Care About Writing Instruction /
_rM.K. Gillespie --
_tThe EMPower Project: Connecting Curriculum Development and Research /
_rM.J. Schmitt, M. Merson --
_gPart III.
_tRethinking Our Assumptions and Concepts --
_tReconceptualizing Adult Basic Education and the Digital Divide /
_rE. Hayes --
_tBeyond the Life Boat: Improving Language, Citizenship, and Training Services for Immigrants and Refugees /
_rH.S. Wrigley --
_tFilling in the "Black Box" of Family Literacy: Implications of Research for Practice and Policy /
_rE.N. Askov, C. Kassab, E.L. Grinder, L.M. Semali, D. Weirauch, E.L. Saenz, B. Van Horn --
_tGiving Literacy Away, Again: New Concepts of Promising Practice /
_rS. Reder --
_tThe Adult Learner in Adult and Family Literacy: Gender and Its Intersection With Role and Context /
_rV.L. Gadsden --
_tPossible Selves: Literacy, Identity, and Development in Work, School, and Community /
_rG.A. Hull, M. Jury, J. Zacher.
520 _aThis volume revisits, problematizes, and expands the meaning of quality in the context of adult basic education. Covering a wide range of relevant topics, it includes contributors from the realms of both policy and practice and encompasses both the major instructional areas - reading, writing, and mathematics - as well as larger issues of literacy, learning, and adulthood. Each chapter focuses on what improving quality in the field might look like through the particular lens of the author's work. As a whole, the broad scope of topics and ideas addressed will raise the level of discussion, knowledge, and practice regarding quality in adult basic education. In this book, the term adult basic education refers to the broad range of services for adults who wish to improve their literacy and language skills, including beginning and intermediate writing, writing and numeracy, preGED, GED/Adult Secondary Education, and ESL instruction that takes place in a range of contexts including schools, community-based programs, and workplace development programs. The volume is organized around three themes: *Accountability, Standards, and the Use of Documentation and Research; *Program Structures and Instruction; and *Rethinking Our Assumptions and Concepts. Coming at a time of increasing pressure to standardize, to be accountable, and to improve outcomes, and when calls for evidence-based practice are fueling stakeholders' interest in the relationship between research and practice at all levels of the system, Toward Defining and Improving Quality in Adult Basic Education is particularly timely for scholars, graduate students, and professionals in the field of adult basic education.
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