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1. Aboriginal-Enhanced Access to Native Learning (2000)
Authors: Sally Gaikezheyongai
This report is the result of the latest Native Women's Resource Centre literacy project. It is the result of a one-year project that included a community needs assessment aimed at improving access to Native learning programs and services. An overview of the 13 year history of Native Literacy Programs in Toronto is presented. At least 60 community members were consulted, including : (past, present and future) Native Learners, Native literacy practitioners and representatives from local Native agencies who have hosted Native Literacy programs over the years. The report also attempts to demystify what is meant by utilizing a culture-based approach and framework in developing a Native Literacy Program.
For further information, contact :
The Native Women's Resource Centre of Toronto Inc.
191 Gerrard Street East
Toronto ON M5A 2E5
Tel. (416) 963-9963
Fax. (416) 963-9573
WWW : http://www.nativewomenscentre.org/
Added: 2001-08-01
2. Addressing Canada's Literacy Challenge: A Cost/ Benefit Analysis (2009)
Authors: T. Scott Murray, Mike McCracken, Doug Willms, Stan Jones, Richard Shillington, John Stucker
In this report, the authors discuss the cost and the importance of investing in literacy. They suggest that advanced literacy is the single most important tool that Canadians need to compete in the global economy and present estimates of the total cost of raising the literacy skill of the adult population to Level 3.
This report includes an executive summary and forward followed byfive chapters:
Chapter 1- Introduces the report and provides background on the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey and the International Survey of Reading Skills (ISRS) studies upon which analyses in the report are based.
Chapter 2 - Summarizes what was measured in the ISRS and what it means
Chapter 3 - Defines segments in the Canadian literacy market
Chapter 4 - Contains estimates of the costs and benefits of releasing Canada’s economic potential through literacy instruction
Chapter 5 - Summary and conclusions
Added: 2009-01-08
3. Adult Basic Education & College Preparatory Student Outcomes Project (1997)
1995 - 96 Report
Authors: Murray J. MacKinnon
Provides data about ABE students in British Columbia and the educational, social, and economic effects of ABE programs as reported by them. Includes statistical data about who the students are, why they enroll, what outcomes they expect, whether their goals are met, and the barriers they experienced. Third in a series of three reports.
Added: 2000-09-11
4. Adult Basic Education Student Outcomes Project (1996)
1994-95 Report
Authors: Berkowitz and Associates Consulting Inc.
Second in a series of three reports, this study looks at students who attended for 0-6 months and compares them with those who attended for 7-13+ months. It also reviews Point of Entry profile factors that might have affected completion rates.
Added: 1996-01-01
5. Adult Learning in Canada: A Comparative Perspective (2007)
Results from the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey
Series: International Adult Literacy Survey
Authors: Kjelle Rubenson, Richard Desjardins, Ee-Seul Yoon
This report uses the results of the 2003 Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey to describe adult learning in Canada. The goal of the report is to present a comprehensive portrait of adult learning including participation in organized forms of adult learning, both formal and non-formal, as well as informal learning. The report addresses differences in participation between selected countries and within Canada and notes changes in participation patterns. Findings from the 2003 Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey are, when appropriate, compared to results from the 1994-1998 International Adult Literacy Survey. In addition to a detailed introduction, this document includes the following sections:
Chapter 1 - International, provincial and territorial comparisons of adult learning
Chapter 2 -Adult learning: who is being left out?
Chapter 3 -Adult learning and the world of work
Added: 2008-03-03
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6. 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
Thomas Sticht, an International Consultant in Adult Education, offers his views of the Adult Literacy and Life Skills (ALL) Survey.
Added: 2005-05-18
7. At Risk: A Socio-economic Analysis of Health and Literacy Among Seniors (1998)
Series: The Monograph Series
Authors: W. Craig Roberts, Gail Fawcett
More and more research demonstrates that social, demographic and economic factors and practices affect the health of a population. However, much less is known about literacy skills and practices among those with higher health risks. Understanding these relationships is important, since weak literacy skills may impede good health care practices and healthy lifestyle decisions. Literacy can therefore be considered an important policy issue for health promotion: enhancing literacy can help to achieve health promotion goals, and understanding literacy practices and patterns can assist in more effectively directing health messages to target populations.
Using Canadian data from the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), this research paper compares the health-related characteristics of seniors with their literacy skills and practices. The findings support the view that literacy skills and practices may serve as "barriers" in the attainment of good health.
This highlights paper is a summary from the fifth in a series of monographs using data from the IALS. For more information, contact : Nancy Darcovich, Statistics Canada, at (613) 951-4585. The document is also available on the National Literacy Secretariat Website at : http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/nls/ials/atrisk/cover.htm (98.12.29)
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Added: 1998-01-01
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8. Backgrounder on the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL) (2005)
Authors: Movement for Canadian Literacy
This backgrounder was prepared by the Movement for Canadian Literacy. It highlights some of the key findings from the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL), provides additional survey background, and summarizes the literacy community's response.
Added: 2005-05-12
9. Barriers to Youth in Acquiring Literacy Assistance (1997)
Authors: Linda L. Jessup
The research project described in this document investigated barriers to attaining literacy training with a sample of low literacy youth (aged 16 to 25 years) from both urban and rural settings in Southwestern Ontario. The study found six identifiable factors as barriers, and found that the reasons for nonparticipation in literacy training programs were multidimensional. The report includes a literature review, the research questions, discussion of the findings, an analysis of how the findings compare with similar studies done by Beder, Hayes, and Darkenwald, and discussion of how the findings could inform a literacy campaign for youth.
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Added: 1997-06-04
10. Benchmarking adult literacy in North America (2001)
an international comparative study
Series: International Adult Literacy Survey
Authors: Albert Tuijnman
This report is a monograph stemming from the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS). Publication of this monograph was supported by the United States Department of Education, Office of Vocational, Adult Education and the Applied Research Branch, Human Resources Development Canada. This monograph presents 10 international indicators that allow readers to compare the literacy proficiency of Canadians and Americans with that of populations of other countries. The findings confirm that low literacy is an important issue in all regions and countries surveyed. But there are both countries that do better and countries that do worse than either Canada or the United States. Understanding why these differences have occurred, and particularly, what policies may have contributed to success and failure, is an important consideration.
Drawing on the results of the IALS, on the findings of previous research, and on the collective experience of member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), this monograph concludes with a proposal for 10 targets and tools for improving literacy. While not all will carry equal weight in national and state provincial strategies, each will have to be considered as part of a comprehensive and encompassing plan of action for building a truly literate North America.
To obtain more information : Scott Murray, Statistics Canada, Tel. (613) 951-9035. This product can be ordered at a cost of $10 from : Statistics Canada, Dissemination Division, Circulation Management, 120 Parkdale Avenue, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6, Tel. 1-800-267-6677, Fax 1-877-287-4369, E-mail : order@statcan.ca The report is also available online in pdf format at : http://www.statcan.ca:80/english/freepub/89-572-XIE/free.htm (01.08.15)
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Added: 2001-04-03
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