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1. Academic Studies Math - Fractions: Part 1 - An Introduction to Fractions for the Adult Learner (1999)
Support Materials and Exercises
Series: Curriculum Project - Math
Authors: New Brunswick Community College
Collection: Learning Materials
This is an introduction to fractions for the adult learner. It contains support materials and exercises.
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Added: 2005-11-01
2. Academic Studies Math - Fractions: Part 2 - The Addition and Subtraction of Fractions (1999)
Support Materials and Exercises
Series: Curriculum Project - Math
Authors: New Brunswick Community College
Collection: Learning Materials
This manual deals with the addition and subtraction of fractions. It also includes support materials and exercises.
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Added: 2005-11-01
3. Academic Studies Math - Fractions: Part 3 - The Multiplication and Division of Fractions (1999)
Support Materials and Exercises
Series: Curriculum Project - Math
Authors: New Brunswick Community College
Collection: Learning Materials
This manual deals with the multiplication and division of fractions. It also includes support materials and exercises.
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Added: 2005-11-01
4. Adult Education - Resource Guide and Learning Standards (1998)
Collection: Research Materials
'This resource guide has been developed to … demonstrate concretely how adult education practitioners across [New York] state are tackling the job of standards-based teaching and learning, and to offer examples of resource/research material.' (Foreword). Includes learning standards for English language arts and math, as well as supplements for ESOL and GED.
Added: 1998-01-01
5. Adult literacy and economic growth (2004)
Authors: Grant Johnston
Collection: Research Materials
This paper looks at whether an increase in the basic literacy skills of adults would have a positive effect on the New Zealand economy. It finds good evidence for the benefits of literacy: studies
consistently find that adults with better literacy skills are more likely to be employed, and to earn more, than those with poorer literacy skills, even when taking account of other factors which affect work performance.
There is little rigorous evidence, however, for the benefits of adult literacy training and almost no accompanying information on the costs of this training.
While there is a good case for an increased focus on adult literacy, and on workplace literacy in particular, these findings suggest a cautious approach to expanding publicly-funded adult literacy programmes.
There is a clear need for more and better New Zealand-based research, for piloting innovative literacy programmes and for undertaking good-quality evaluations. A modest increase in literacy training may not materially affect economic performance.
Added: 2006-04-11
6. Adult Literacy in Ontario (1998)
The International Adult Literacy Survey Results
Authors: Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (Ontario)
Collection: Research Materials
In 1990, Statistics Canada released the results of the Survey of Literacy Skills Used in Daily Activities (LSUDA), a 1989 Canada-wide survey of the reading skills of adults. In 1992, the then Ontario Ministry of Education reported on the LSUDA results for Ontario (Stan Jones, Survey of Adult Literacy in Ontario).
Shortly after the release of the LSUDA results in Canada and those of the National Adult Literacy Survey in the United States, interest in a comparative international study of adult literacy began to grow. In December 1995, the first results of the 1994 survey of adult literacy in seven countries, the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), were reported in Literacy, Economy and Society, a joint publication of Statistics Canada and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In September 1996, Statistics Canada released Reading the Future: A Portrait of Literacy in Canada, a report on the national data collected in IALS.
To measure literacy in IALS, respondents answered a set of test questions designed to measure adult reading skills as well as background questions about their education, work experience and literacy practices.
Ontario participated in the survey in order to gain key data to inform policy development and to focus its literacy programming. The present report covers in detail the IALS results for Ontario. It updates and supplements the previous report, Survey of Adult Literacy in Ontario. It is organized much as the previous report with a table, graph and commentary for each of the major literacy relationships. Throughout the text, shaded boxes provide background information. Usually the tables provide results for three scales -- prose, document and quantitative -- but the graphs are used to point to particularly interesting results in part of the data.
Added: 2007-05-11
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7. Adult Numeracy: Taking Mathematics from the Real World into the Classroom and Back (1988)
A Report to the Adult Basic Education Unit, Toronto Board of Education
Authors: Tom Ciancone
Collection: Research Materials
This paper looks at the nature of the adult learner who needs and seeks instruction in mathematics. Secondly, it examines the nature of mathematics learning and its role in interpreting the real world. Finally, the author explores what implications these two areas of study have for instruction of adults in mathematics.
Added: 2000-05-16
8. AWAL Guide (2006)
Handbook For Facilitators
Authors: Wendy Magahay
Collection: Learning Materials
The AWAL Guide: Handbook for Facilitators is essentially “AWAL in a box.” The background information, suggestions, and resources collected here are intended to provide you with the tools and support you need to understand, plan for, deliver, and benefit from an AWAL Workshop for your organization.
AWAL (Applications of Working and Learning) is a valuable and effective program that can result in strong benefits for both faculty development and curriculum resource development. Through meeting with and learning from employers and employees, AWAL provides a means for educators to incorporate into their own teaching practice an emphasis on the skills that Canadian workplaces have identified as essential.
However, AWAL is not intended to provide a complete examination of a job, and certainly not of the people who do those jobs.
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Added: 2006-08-04
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9. Basic Math for Windows (2000)
Review
Series: CONNECT: Canada's Resource Publication on Technology & Adult Literacy
Authors: Diane McCargar
Collection: Learning Materials
This software review from CONNECT describes Basic Math for Windows. This shareware program provides learners with multiple choice questions on a variety of math topics.
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Added: 2003-07-25
10. Best Practices in the Adult Setting (2003)
Series: Community Capacity Building Tool Kit
Authors: Joan B. Perry
Collection: Research Materials
This report builds on the document, Best Practices for Adult Literacy, which investigated best practices for facilitating the development literacy among adults.
The author undertook additional research to report on practical teaching techniques, tips, strategies, methods, and exercises for adult literacy program delivery. This document contains what has already been successful in adult literacy programs: the activities, program models, resources, and useful classroom strategies that have been tried and tested.
Added: 2004-11-22
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