Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

This compendium describes five innovative practices in bridge and integrated education and training (IET) programs as selected by the  Advancing Innovation in Adult Education project.

The Personal and Workplace Success Skills Library is a curated collection of resources to guide the integration of personal and workplace success skills into curriculum and instruction, advising and coaching, assessment, and program design.

This compendium describes the four innovative practices in secondary
credentialing selected from the Round 1 Advancing Innovation in Adult
Education applications.

The Self-study Guide for Evidence-Based Practices in Adult Literacy Education helps adult literacy education providers collect, organize, and analyze evidence they can use to plan for and improve program implementation and performance.

This policy brief identifies common elements of developmental education policies at the system and state levels: college readiness assessments, assessment cut scores, multiple measures for course placement, innovative course models and reporting systems.

This handbook is a practical guide that supports the delivery of quality distance education programming.

This online evaluation toolkit is designed to help financial educators understand evaluation concepts and efficiently apply them to document the impact their educational programs have on students.

This open-access version of the Northstar Digital Literacy Project assessments can be used for assessing digital literacy skills to inform instruction.

This report details the progress of all 50 states and the District of Columbia towards achieving the Workforce Data Quality Campaign’s (WDQC) 13-point State Blueprint for state data systems.

This toolkit offers information about policies and legislative templates that states can enact to improve data infrastructure and promote data use.

The Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education provides a forum for sharing research, information, theory, commentary, and practical experiences that will improve the quality of services for adult basic education, literacy, and numeracy learners.

This issue features articles focused on the ways that research can affect policy and practice.

The Toolkit features v​ideos and supplemental materials to help teachers write and select well-designed assessments.

The purpose of this qualitative research paper is to describe the college prospects of transitioning adults with a GED credential and special needs, in terms of characteristics, challenges, attributes, and supports; the article concludes with interviewee and researcher recommendations for adult education programs and colleges to support transitioning adults.

STAR is a project of the U.S. Department of Education that provides training and support for teachers of intermediate reading students in effective, evidence-based practices in the four major components of adult reading instruction: alphabetics, fluency,vocabulary, and comprehension.

This is the report of a project that focused on the development and evaluation of teaching strategies for formative assessment in numeracy.

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This three-hour, self-paced course was designed for use by volunteers, teachers and program administrators in the field of ABE who are interested in learning how to effectively use data to identify and/or clarify their program’s mission and highlight its success. 

This publication highlights the effect that assessment policies have on student placement rates in community colleges. 

This resource from New Zealand provides a framework that indicates what adult learners can know and can do as they develop their expertise in literacy - Listen with Understanding, Speak to Communicate, Read with Understanding, Write to Communicate.

This three-hour, self-paced course was designed for use by volunteers, teachers and program administrators in the field of ABE who are interested in learning how to effectively review and use data once it has been collected. 

This Policy Brief examines the major assessments in use today to measure adult learning gains and determine student placements – e.g., BEST, CASAS, TABE, COMPASS, ASSET, and ACCUPLACER in terms of their use and issues of alignment.

This three-hour, self-paced course was designed for use by volunteers, teachers and program administrators in the field of ABE who are interested in learning to use data to improve program services. 

A transcript of this resource is available under the webcast screen. 
https://neces.ed.gov/naal/index.asp

Instructional material, from Ontario, Canada, covers assessing learner progression based on the student's point of view.