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Click -- http://www.ourdailybreadmissions.org/Counseling%20&%20Teaching.htm -- to visit the site below
Title Pastoral Counseling & Teaching / America's Schools in Crisis
Year 2000-
Organization Our Daily Bread, Missions -Association of Accredited Bible Schools & Teachers
Summary The purpose of the study was to collect basic and factual information about private schools, public schools, teachers and teaching methods, and home educators and their students in order to build an understanding of them. More specifically, the objectives of this study were to answer questions about (a) demographic characteristics of families, (b) selected significant characteristics of schools of what is working and what is not, (c) student performance on standardized achievement tests, (d) the relationship between student achievement and various factors related to their education, and (e) changes in data from the previous year, (f) teaching methods used.
Contents Ideas and information -- Community and support.
Subjects Cognitive disabilities / Computer assisted instruction / Curriculum / Curriculum development / Disabilities / Learner centered curriculum / Learning styles
 
Click -- http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~ncsall/research/report15.pdf -- to visit the site below
Title Cognitive skills matter in the labor market, even for school dropouts.
Series NCSALL Reports #15
Year 2000
Organization National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (U.S.); Harvard University. Graduate School of Education
Personal author Tyler, John H; Murnane, Richard J.; Willett, John B.
Summary Study examines the labor market payoff to cognitive skills for school dropouts and whether it differs by gender and race/ethnicity.
Contents Executive summary - Introduction - Data - Statistical analysis - Analytic model - Estimation - Results - Conclusions - References.
Subjects Cognitive skills / Employability / Employment education relationships / Quantitative research / Research / Standardized tests / Statistics
 
Click -- http://www.literacy.org/products/ncal/pdf/TR0001.pdf -- to visit the site below
Title Cognitive reading assessment for low literate adults: an analytic review and new framework.
Series Technical Report TR00-01
Year 2000
Organization National Center on Adult Literacy.
Personal author Sabatini, John P.; Venezky, Richard L.; Kharik, Polina; Jain, Richa
Summary Study of Adult Reading Acquisition (SARA) is a longitudinal research project designed to measure the development of reading subskills of adults enrolled in instructional programs.The study design serves as a model for using achievement tests.
Contents Rationale for the construction of cognitive assessments - Cognitive assessments: Measures of cognitive processing skills - Implementing cognitive assessments in the SARA project design - Design of SARA tests and test paradigms - Conclusions.
Subjects Adult learning / Assessment / Cognitive skills / Learning psychology / Reading skills / Research / Vocabulary skills
 
Click -- http://www.learningfrompractice.org/palpin/monos01/banthony.htm -- to visit the site below
Title Practitioner inquiry: The use of a Metacognitive-Task Analysis Method to Teach a Deaf Adult Literacy Student Basic Communication
Year 2001-
Organization Pennsylvania Adult Literacy Practitioner Inquiry Network (PALPIN)
Personal author Anthony, Robert A.
Summary This paper investigates the use of a metacognitive-task analysis method for teaching basic communication to a deaf adult. This method differs significantly from the traditionally used literacy instruction for deaf and hard of hearing individuals.
Contents Action plan - Methods - Measurement - Presentation of data - Timeframe - Results - Summary of results.
Subjects American sign language / Cognitive skills / Communication skills / Deaf / Deaf literacy / Literacy research
 

 
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