The term, as we use it, includes all learners from all levels of instruction from beginning English to advanced English without regard to specific student performance levels or assessment standards. This stands for Adult Diploma Program or External Diploma Program, an alternative high school credential program for adults developed and administered through local education authorities. This term stands for the Tests of General Education Development prepared by the GED Testing Service of the American Council on Education and administered locally under the authority of the each state department of education. The five GED tests serve as the basis for granting a high school credential to adults. The current version was introduced in 1988 and includes a mathematics test.
Standards are statements about what is valued.
They are to be used to judge the quality of a curriculum or methods of evaluation. This term refers to an operational plan for instruction that details the content and the sequence of the mathematics taught, and includes objectives for learner achievement and activities for teachers for facilitation of learning. These characteristics contain implications for any curriculum planning and methodology inherent in fashioning a new vision for mathematics instruction in adult basic education. Across groups, all adult learners are goal-centered. The vastly diverse ESL population frequently has learners who hold advanced degrees in their country of origin.