Browse by author "Thomas G. Sticht"
1. ABC's of Investing in Adult Literacy Education (2005)
Authors: Thomas G. Sticht
Collection: Research Materials
This document offers 26 reasons, one for each letter of the alphabet, for investing in adult literacy education.
Many of the reasons focus on the benefits to the overall economy from investments in education. The author points out that a dollar spent for adult literacy education produces many more dollars in returns on investment through improved productivity.
Other sections focus on globalization, health literacy, and the intergenerational transfer of an interest in learning from parents to children. The document concludes with a discussion of the zest and zeal for life that adult education can foster.
The author is a California-based international consultant in adult education and many of his arguments touch on matters specifically related to the United States. However, the document is general enough to offer a starting point for discussing adult literacy in any country.
Added: 2005-05-31
2. Adult Basic Education: Strategies to Increase Returns on Investment (ROI) (1999)
Authors: Thomas G. Sticht
Collection: Research Materials
Drawing upon a variety of studies, the author argues that adult literacy program can increase their ROI by developing 'programs that maximize the intergenerational transfer of educational benefits from parents to children, and functional-context education programs [that] integrate basic skills instruction with job and parenting skills training'.
Added: 1999-07-01
3. Adult Education and Literacy in the United States (2007)
A Syllabus and Resources for an Online Course of Self-Study
Authors: Thomas G. Sticht
Collection: Research Materials
Thomas Sticht, International Consultant in Adult Education, has put together a syllabus for self-study to give those new to the field of literacy more background in adult education and literacy development, and to offer others in the field a chance to deepen their knowledge about the field and its history, policies, practices and issues that it deals with. All recommended reading is available in the NALD Library.
Added: 2007-02-26
4. The Adult Education and Literacy System (AELS) in the United States (2000)
Moving From the Margins to the Mainstream of Education
Authors: Thomas G. Sticht
Collection: Research Materials
Describes several ways in which increased literacy in adults can impact positively at work, at home, and in the community, including improvement in children's schooling and health. Argues that the adult education and literacy system in the U. S. should no longer be marginalized.
Added: 2000-01-01
5. Adult Education and Literacy System of America: Separate and Still Unequal, The (2004)
Authors: Thomas G. Sticht
Collection: Research Materials
In this article, the author discusses the adult education and literacy system in the United States and how, after forty years, it is still separate from the K-12 system and higher education systems and still unequal in funding, facilities, instructional staff, and social acceptance.
Added: 2004-05-19
6. Adult Education for Abundance and Liberty for All (2006)
Celebrating 40 Years of the Adult Education and Literacy System of the United States
Authors: Thomas G. Sticht
Collection: Research Materials
The author discusses 40 years of Adult Education in the United States. This year, they celebrate 40 years of Adult Literacy and Literacy System that was created by the Adult Education Act of 1966, and which continues today as Title 2: The Adult Education and Family Literacy Act of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998.
How the Adult Education Act emerged from the adult basic education program of the War on Poverty illustrates how multiple interests were brought together to break through a barrier that had blocked the development of an Adult Education and Literacy System for decades.
Added: 2006-07-25
7. Adult Literacy in the United States (1994)
A Compendium of Quantitative Data and Interpretive Comments
Authors: Thomas G. Sticht, William B. Armstrong
Collection: Research Materials
This report provides information about methods of assessing adult literacy skills and programs. The authors use theoretical examples as well as extensive quantitative data from World War 1 (1917) up to the present.
Added: 2005-04-23
8. Adult Literacy: What's Hot and What's Not in 2003? (2003)
Authors: Thomas G. Sticht
Collection: Research Materials
To find out what topics in adult literacy education are in and which ones seem to be out for 2003, the author tallied the number of messages posted to the National institute for Literacy (NIFL) lists as of noon on June 30. The results of the tally prompted the author to suggest that this raises the question of just what do the NIFL lists indicate about what the adult literacy field thinks is hot and what it thinks is not.
Added: 2003-07-04
9. Adult's Perceived Literacy Near Universal in U.S., Canada, and UK (2001)
Authors: Thomas G. Sticht
Collection: Research Materials
Based on the International Adult Literacy Survey data for Canada, the US, and the UK, there appears to be a considerable discrepancy between the results of the performance tests and the self-assessments. This article provides statistics to support this theory, considers the implications of this discrepancy, and suggests topics for further study.
Added: 2001-01-01
10. ALL Wrong Again! Can Adult Literacy Assessments Be Fixed? (2005)
Series: Comments on the 2003 International Adult Literacy and Lifeskills Survey
Authors: Thomas G. Sticht
Collection: Research Materials
Thomas Sticht, an International Consultant in Adult Education, offers his views of the Adult Literacy and Life Skills (ALL) Survey.
Added: 2005-05-18
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