Toward defining and improving quality in adult basic education

Summary: This collection of articles looks at quality from the perspectives of both policy and practice. Each chapter looks at one approach to improving quality. The articles are organized around three themes: accountability, standards and the use of documentation and research; program structures and instruction; rethinking our assumptions and concepts.

Record details

ISBN: 0805855459 (case : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780415878067 (case : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xiii, 327 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2012, c2007.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Introduction : why quality? : why now? / Alisa Belzer -- Accountability, standards, and the use of documentation and research -- Accountability and program quality : the third wave / Larry Condelli -- Equipped for the future and standards-based educational improvement : achieving results that matter for adult learners / Sondra G. Stein -- Tales from the field : the struggles and challenges of conducting ethical and quality research in the field of adult literacy / Daphne Greenberg -- Professional development and evidence-based practice in adult education / Mary Beth Bingman and Cristine Smith -- Program structures and instruction -- Quality instruction in adult literacy education / Hal Beder -- Volunteer one-to-one tutoring : critical factors in providing quality instruction / Alisa Belzer -- Supporting persistence of adult basic education students / John P. Comings and Sondra Cuban -- Learning to read as a cultural process / James Paul Gee -- The forgotten R : why adult educators should care about writing instruction / Marilyn K. Gillespie -- The EMPower Project : connecting curriculum development and research / Mary Jane Schmitt and Martha Merson -- Rethinking our assumptions and concepts -- Reconceptualizing adult basic education and the digital divide / Elisabeth Hayes -- Beyond the life boat : improving language, citizenship, and training services for immigrants and refugees / Beyond the life boat : improving language, citizenship, and training services for immigrants and refugees / Heide Spruck Wrigley -- Filling in the "black box" of family literacy : implications of research for practice and policy / Eunice N. Askov, Cathy Kassab, Elisabeth L. Grinder, Ladislaus M. Semali, Drucilla Weirauch, Eugenio Longoria Saenz and Barbara Van Horn -- Giving literacy away, again : new concepts of promising practice / Stephen Reder -- The adult learner in adult and family literacy : gender and its intersections with role and context / Vivian L. Gadsden -- Possible selves : literacy, identity, and development in work, school, and community / Glynda A. Hull, Mark Jury and Jessica Zacher.