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Creator:: Haddon, R. Lance
Abstract:: National statistics indicate that as many as 23 million adults in the United States are illiterate and another 40 million lack literacy skills necessary to function effectively or on more than a narrow basis in this society. People without literacy skills or who have only marginal reading ability find themselves...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: learners' objectives. Reading Ability Research on the effectiveness of adult literacy programs typically

Creator:: Orr, Evelyn Bonnie Fairburn
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of placing adults in reading materials based on scores from a word-opposite test. The population was randomly selected from students attending developmental education classes at three Oregon community colleges. The Word Opposite Reading Placement Instrument (WOPI) was derived from a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , except when they are written for a special use such as adult developmental education reading courses or

Creator:: Prickel, Donald O.
Abstract:: The major purposes of this study were (1) to construct a reliable and valid scale for measuring writing self-efficacy levels in adult basic education students, (2) to further test the scale's validity and reliability by administering it to a second selected group of adult basic education students, and (3) to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: and valid scale for measuring writing self-efficacy levels in adult basic education students, (2) to

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