Issues and trends in adult basic education
Subtitle: focus on reading
By: edited by Frances A. Karnes, Clyde N. Ginn, and Beverly Bell Maddox.
Contributors: Ginn, Clyde N.; Karnes, Frances A.; Maddox, Beverly Bell.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Reading (Adult education) -- Addresses, essays, lectures.; Adult education.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

CONTENTS:
Interests and adult education -- Needs in reading instruction and adult basic education -- Differences between adults and youth affecting learning -- Life skills education for adult learners -- ABE urban extension : towards a strategy of intervention -- Adult basic education : some spin-off for culturally deprived youth education -- Reading diagnosis : evaluation in ABE classes -- A comparative readability study of materials used to teach adults to read -- Cognitive evaluation in ABE -- Criterion referenced testing for functional literacy -- Evaluating  basic education for adults : some economic and methodological considerations -- The concept and measurement of functional literacy -- Token reinforcement and adult basic education -- Simulation games and adult education -- Cooperative learning process : shared learning experience in teaching adults to read -- Freire, Gray and Robinson on reading -- Language experience approach in a jobs corps reading lab -- Without reading you ain’t nothing -- Survival literacy : teaching reading to those with a “need to know” -- Using the tape recorder in teaching adults to read -- The usefulness of five basic word lists in teaching adults to read -- The effectiveness of taped reading instruction in increasing the reading rate and comprehension of undereducated adults -- Everyday materials improve adults’ reading -- A computer assisted literacy development program -- Two-way TV technology and the teaching of reading -- Reading program helps employees step ahead -- PREP : hope for the educationally disadvantaged in the military service -- ABE classes for mentally ill : a new dimension for adult education -- Adult basic education and public libraries : services to the disadvantaged adult.
Table of contents: label: 1.
title: Factors affecting adult learning
pagenum: 1; label: 2.
title: Issues in teaching adults to read
pagenum: 55; label: 3.
title: Diagnosis and evaluation
pagenum: 89; label: 4.
title: Methods of instruction in adult education
pagenum: 155; label: 5.
title: Innovative programs
pagenum: 209