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 Adult Literacy Program Practice: A Typology Across Dimensions of Life-Contextualized/Decon...
NCSALL Reports #2 July 1998 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Describing Program Practice: A Typology Across Two Dimensions This study created a typology of adult literacy programs across the United States that describes the distribution of programs along two dimensions: relevance of materials, referred to as li...
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NCSALL Reports #2 July 1998 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Describing Program Practice: A Typology Across Two Dimensions This study created a typology of adult literacy programs across the United States that describes the distribution of programs along two dimensions: relevance of materials, referred to as life-contextual/decontextual; and control of decisions, referred to as dialogic/monologic. This information provides a data-based
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NCSALL Reports #2 July 1998 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Describing Program Practice: A Typology Across Two Dimensions This study created a typology of adult literacy programs across the United States that describes the distribution of programs along two dimensions: relevance of materials, referred to as life-<span class="highlight">contextual</span>/decontextual; and <span class="highlight">control</span> of decisions, referred to as dialogic/monologic. This information provides a data-<span class="highlight">based</span>
Toward a New Pluralism in ABE/ESOL Classrooms: Chapter 4
making, they are also making another transition, growing acculturated to different roles and environments. As new residents of the United States, they are learning how to function successfully in this culture. In particular, they are learning how to understand and manage the role...
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making, they are also making another transition, growing acculturated to different roles and environments. As new residents of the United States, they are learning how to function successfully in this culture. In particular, they are learning how to understand and manage the role of student in an American institution of higher education. Such transitions can be difficult for individuals to make due to inequities of power and ideology within our society and its educational systems. In many ways then
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making, they are also making another transition, growing acculturated to different roles and environments. As new residents of the United States, they are learning how to function successfully <span class="highlight">in</span> this culture. <span class="highlight">In</span> particular, they are learning how to understand and manage the <span class="highlight">role</span> of student <span class="highlight">in</span> an American institution of higher education. Such transitions can be difficult for individuals to make due to inequities of power and ideology within our society and its educational systems. <span class="highlight">In</span> many ways then
How Does Technology Affect
ix EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Because knowledge-based economies, like that of the United States, require increasing levels of education and training, augmenting access to postsecondary education is an issue of significant importance to the nation. Technology, particularly the Internet, has bro...
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ix EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Because knowledge-based economies, like that of the United States, require increasing levels of education and training, augmenting access to postsecondary education is an issue of significant importance to the nation. Technology, particularly the Internet, has broadened opportunities for students to participate in postsecondary education considerably. Thousands of online courses are now available, and an increasing number of on-campus courses possess a technology component
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ix EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Because knowledge-<span class="highlight">based</span> economies, like that of the United States, require increasing levels of education and training, augmenting <span class="highlight">access</span> to postsecondary education is an issue of significant importance to the nation. Technology, particularly the Internet, has broadened opportunities for students to participate <span class="highlight">in</span> postsecondary education considerably. Thousands of online courses are now available, and an increasing number of on-campus courses possess a technology component
Choosing and Using Web Sites for Literacy Instruction: Evaluation Resources and Strategies
after all." Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland As of January, 2000, there were close to 10 million Internet web sites. If Internet use continues to increase at its current rate, almost 60 million US households will have Internet access by 2003 (Nielsen, 2000). That...
Summaries of the Evaluations Referenced in Emerging Answers 2007
Stewart, F, Weaver, M, Monteith, C, Van Der Pol, B Impact of Increased Access to Emergency Contraception Pills Obstetrics & Gynecology, 108(5): p1098-1106 2006 Contact person: Elizabeth Raymond, Clinical Research Division, Family Health International, PO Box 13950, Research Tr...
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Stewart, F, Weaver, M, Monteith, C, Van Der Pol, B Impact of Increased Access to Emergency Contraception Pills Obstetrics & Gynecology, 108(5): p1098-1106 2006 Contact person: Elizabeth Raymond, Clinical Research Division, Family Health International, PO Box 13950, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 eraymond@fhi.org Country: United States Location in country: Nevada and North Carolina Rural/urban: NR Income level: NR Pregnancy Risk level: High STD/HIV Risk
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http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/ea2007/EA2007_program_summaries.pdf#page=88
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Stewart, F, Weaver, M, Monteith, <span class="highlight">C</span>, Van Der Pol, B Impact of Increased <span class="highlight">Access</span> to Emergency Contraception Pills Obstetrics & Gynecology, 108(5): p1098-1106 2006 Contact person: Elizabeth Raymond, Clinical Research Division, Family Health International, PO Box 13950, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 eraymond@fhi.org Country: United States Location <span class="highlight">in</span> country: Nevada and North Carolina Rural/urban: NR Income level: NR Pregnancy Risk level: High STD/HIV Risk
The Outcomes and Impacts of Adult Literacy Education in the United States
varying reading ability. Although these contextual constraints are well known by most experienced researchers of adult literacy education, the Wisconsin study is one of the very few that has acknowledged the problems these features pose in study design. The authors of the study note t...
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varying reading ability. Although these contextual constraints are well known by most experienced researchers of adult literacy education, the Wisconsin study is one of the very few that has acknowledged the problems these features pose in study design. The authors of the study note that, although a control group would have been desirable, establishment of a control group was beyond the means of the study and that, while collection of pre-data at the time of enrollment would have been desirable, such data were
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varying reading ability. Although these <span class="highlight">contextual</span> constraints are well known by most experienced researchers of adult literacy education, the Wisconsin study is one of the very few that has acknowledged the problems these features pose <span class="highlight">in</span> study design. The authors of the study note that, although a <span class="highlight">control</span> group would have been desirable, establishment of a <span class="highlight">control</span> group was beyond the means of the study and that, while collection of pre-data at the time of enrollment would have been desirable, such data were
Colorado Model Content Standards
development of the economic system of the United States; • analyzing the history of the relationship between economics systems and the role of governments throughout history; • describing characteristics of specific economic systems and how these systems have existed in diffe...
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development of the economic system of the United States; • analyzing the history of the relationship between economics systems and the role of governments throughout history; • describing characteristics of specific economic systems and how these systems have existed in different ways at different times throughout history (for example, manorialism, mercantilism, capitalism, socialism, communism); and • tracing the historical factors that lead to the transition from local and regional economies to a globally
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http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeassess/documents/OSA/standards/history.pdf#page=16
www.cde.state.co.us/cdeassess/documents/OSA/standards/history.pdf#page=16
development of the economic system of the United States; • analyzing the history of the relationship between economics systems and the <span class="highlight">role</span> of governments throughout history; • describing characteristics of specific economic systems and how these systems have existed <span class="highlight">in</span> different ways at different times throughout history (for example, manorialism, mercantilism, capitalism, socialism, communism); and • tracing the historical factors that lead to the transition from local and regional economies to a globally
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