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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"adult literacy"”.
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How does blended learning motivate adult literacy learners?
This piece of work looks at how adult literacy learners in the context of an urban Dublin community education centre are motivated by using a blended learning approach to improving their literacy skills. Chapter one introduces the thesis and gives some background to why this topic was chosen. …
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Identification of teaching competencies of adult literacy teachers as perceived by the supervisors and the teachers of adult literacy in Kenya
… was to identify the teaching competencies of adult literacy teachers as perceived by supervisors and teachers of adult literacy in Kenya. The two research questions that guided the survey focused on perceptions that respondents considered to be most important in enabling the literacy teachers …
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Adult literacy learning: perceptions and motivations of volunteer tutors
Most adult literacy studies tend to focus on learner outcomes, and the few that do include tutors usually focus on their compassion as volunteers and/or assess the effectiveness of tutor training. Since community adult literacy programs are largely dependent on volunteer tutors to provide …
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Teacher Preparation and Professional Development in Adult Literacy Education
Adult literacy educators enter into teaching positions where they are entrusted with the education of adult learners, often without any prior preparation, and with very little guidance on how to actually teach the learners in their classes. Many “happen upon” jobs teaching adult literacy education, …
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What place does accreditation have in learner centred adult literacy?
In recent times the field of adult literacy has witnessed many developments. From a position of low status pre 2000 it now finds itself firmly under the Governments spotlight. This is due in the main to the results of the International Adult Literacy Survey published in 1997 in which 1 in 4 Irish …
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Virtual study sessions for adult literacy education teachers’ multilingual awareness
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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What is it like for you?: a phenomenological study: teaching adult literacy in a further education college under the auspices of the Adult Literacy Core Curriculum
This study is about the experience of teaching adult literacy in a further education college under the auspices of the Adult Literacy Core Curriculum (ALCC) between the years 2002 to 2005. A universal description was derived from the perspectives of five college lecturers, called co-researchers, …
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Examining students’ attitudes toward blended learning in adult literacy and basic skills programs
Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) programs offer adult learners, with low literacy and basic skills, opportunities to improve employment skills and pre-requisite courses for entrance into post-secondary education. Barriers to learning that students encounter in LBS programs might be reduced through a …
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To Educate a Nation: A Case Study on Adult Literacy & Women in Ghana
<p>Adult literacy is one of the most effective ways to increase access and reduce disparities in education that have disproportionately affected generations of uneducated and undereducated women. Ghana is a leader in providing literacy programs, but evidence is lacking regarding the involvement of …
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Investigating the Self-Assessment of Adult Literacy Learners with Dyslexia across Several Cognitive Domains
The dissertation evaluated the ability of adult literacy learners with dyslexia to assess their cognitive abilities in two separate domains: reading and memory. This study also evaluated the effect that one-on-one tutoring had on the learner's ability to accurately self-assess these cognitive …
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What is counted becomes what counts: Measuring the correct learning outcomes in adult literacy.
… on the experiences of practitioners involved in adult literacy assessment. It began with reviewing existing Irish policy on assessment and extended for comparative purposes towards international policy. It queries the current quantitative method of collecting data on literacy skills attainment …
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Factors associated with Adult Literacy Student Outcomes in Campus-based versus Community-based programs
… of Georgia (TCSG) formally trains over 100,000 adult literacy students each year free of charge at a variety of campus-based and community-based programs located at community centers, churches, libraries, or businesses. A common, yet unproven, assumption among senior administrators and adult …
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Motivation and Reading Achievement: Understanding the Needs and Motivation Processes of Adult Literacy Learners
Adult struggling readers are understudied and most evidence-based remedial approaches target youth. This thesis examined relationships among motivation constructs across typical and struggling adult readers. Age was also investigated as a moderator in these relationships. Participants included 198 …
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Investigating the tripartite aspects of transactional distance in a blended multimedia adult literacy programme
… the role of transactional distance in an Adult Basic Education and Training Level One (ABET L1) multimedia, blended learning programme. While empirical research acknowledges that dialogue assumes an important role in mediating the communicative chasm between adult learner and facilitator, …
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Selecting instructional media in functional adult literacy programmes in Lusaka district: challenges and possible solutions.
… Selection of Instructional Media in Functional Adult Literacy Programmes in Lusaka District. It sought to establish the criteria used by facilitators when selecting the instructional media in Functional Adult Literacy programmes in Lusaka District as well as the challenges they encountered in …
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Women Participation in Adult Literacy Programme: A case of Kabompo District in North Western Province
… to evaluate levels of women participation in the Adult Literacy programme in Kabompo District of North-western province.The study was mainly meant to answer the questions raised as specified in the objectives. Objectives for the study included: establishing why women enrol in the Adult Literacy …
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Selecting instructional media in functional adult literacy programmes in Lusaka district: challenges and possible solutions.
… Selection of Instructional Media in Functional Adult Literacy Programmes in Lusaka District. It sought to establish the criteria used by facilitators when selecting the instructional media in Functional Adult Literacy programmes in Lusaka District as well as the challenges they encountered in …
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Voices in a Knowledge Conversation : an exploration of two narrative representations of Adult Literacy Learners
As a result of policy changes in adult literacy education in England in recent years, political and public narratives about adult literacy learners have become dominated by the notion of skills deficit, demonstrating a disregard for adult learners’ lives and life experiences beyond employment and …
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