Multiple intelligences and adult literacy : a sourcebook for practitioners.

Este trabajo presenta una visión general de la teoría de las Inteligencias Múltiples (MI) con ejemplos que los educadores pueden utilizar en el aula con los estudiantes de alfabetización de adultos. Este práctico libro de consulta, realizado con las experiencias de los profesores que participaron en el estudio de las Inteligencias Múltiples de Adultos (IAM), incluye: los fundamentos de la teoría de las Inteligencias Múltiples (IM); las reflexiones cara al futuro sobre los éxitos y desafíos del uso de la teoría de MI en la educación de adultos, además de una serie de actividades para explorar esta teoría con los estudiantes; discusiones sobre cómo esta teoría puede ser utilizada para desarrollar experiencias de aprendizaje y estrategias educativas que aprovechen los puntos fuertes de la inteligencia de los estudiantes; lecciones y actividades para utilizar la teoría de las MI en el lenguaje, el aprendizaje del inglés, la escritura, la lectura, las matemáticas, la ciencia; preguntas de discusión para la reflexión individual y grupal y la experiencia de las aulas para probar estas ideas en el marco docente.

Skills for life : improving adult literacy and numeracy. Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General.

En este informe se dan a conocer los principales resultados de un programa puesto en marcha por el Departamento de Educación y Formación, en marzo de 2001 cuya finalidad era la de romper con el bajo nivel de alfabetización y aritmética de la población adulta de Inglaterra, mejorar sus habilidades para la vida y elevar el nivel de calidad de esta modalidad de educación en todas las zonas del país. Para ello, se han llevado a cabo iniciativas que permiten actualizar la formación de los profesores en materia de alfabetización, lenguaje y aprendizaje de las matemáticas y se han desarrollado diversos enfoques para identificar a las personas con baja cualificación y animarlas a la participación en el aprendizaje.

Adult literacy, numeracy and language : policy, practice and research.

Es un recurso para los profesionales, investigadores y estudiantes de los cursos de adultos y educación continua, para estudiantes de postgrado e investigadores en el campo de la educación post-obligatoria. Estudia la práctica social de la alfabetización, la aritmética y el lenguaje y las implicaciones de la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de las competencias básicas de los adultos. Los principales expertos internacionales propugnan un cambio en el enfoque de su definición por otra más abierta que sostiene que la alfabetización, la aritmética y el lenguaje son más que un conjunto de habilidades o técnicas, pues están determinadas por el contexto social y cultural en el que están teniendo lugar, el sentido que tienen para los usuarios, y los fines que persiguen.

Practice multiple-choice papers suitable for : key skills level 1 communication, level 1 adult literacy (basic skills), and ESOL skills for life level 1 reading.

Este recurso puede ser utilizado tanto por los tutores como por los estudiantes que siguen las habilidades básicas, alumnos adultos de alfabetización en la evaluación final en el nivel 1 y los estudiantes de ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) en lectura. Contiene 12 cuestionarios, cada uno con 40 preguntas de opción múltiple para evaluar la capacidad del candidato para identificar los puntos e ideas principales de los escritos, entender el significado de los documentos y su estilo de escritura, interpretar la información de tablas, gráficos y mapas, y reconocer la ortografía, la gramática y la puntuación. También, incluye las respuestas y las hojas de evaluación para fotocopiar.

Practice multiple-choice papers suitable for : key skills level 2 communication, level 2 adult literacy (basic skills), and ESOL skills for life level 2 reading.

Este recurso puede ser utilizado tanto por los tutores como por los estudiantes que siguen las habilidades básicas, alumnos adultos de alfabetización en la evaluación final en el nivel 2 y los estudiantes de ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) en lectura. Contiene 12 cuestionarios, cada uno con 40 preguntas de opción múltiple para evaluar la capacidad del candidato para identificar los puntos e ideas principales de los escritos, entender el significado de los documentos y su estilo de escritura, interpretar la información de tablas, gráficos y mapas, y reconocer la ortografía, la gramática y la puntuación. También, incluye las respuestas y las hojas de evaluación para fotocopiar.

The effects of adult literacy on earnings and employment

This paper provides evidence of the effects of adult literacy on individuals’ income and employability in Brazil based on information obtained from the monthly employment survey (PME). The OLS results indicate that after controlling for observable characteristics, there is a 21.25% increase in wages for individuals who become literate; however, there is no significant impact on employability. Moreover, the findings show an 8.1% increase in the probability of being employed in the formal sector. We also explore the longitudinal structure of the dataset to control for unobservable fixed characteristics of individuals. The fixed-effects estimators show smaller effects compared to the OLS estimators. We find that literacy has a 4.4% effect on wages and a 4.3% impact on the probability of being formally employed. The effects are significantly different from zero.

Learning for well being : Studies using the International Adult Literacy Survey

This thesis is a collection of five independent but closely related studies. The overall purpose is to approach the analysis of learning outcomes from a perspective that combines three major elements, namely lifelonglifewide learning, human capital, and the benefits of learning. The approach is based on an interdisciplinary perspective of the human capital paradigm. It considers the multiple learning contexts that are responsible for the development of embodied potential – including formal, nonformal and informal learning – and the multiple outcomes – including knowledge, skills, economic, social and others– that result from learning. The studies also seek to examine the extent and relative influence of learning in different contexts on the formation of embodied potential and how in turn that affects economic and social well being. The first study combines the three major elements, lifelonglifewide learning, human capital, and the benefits of learning into one common conceptual framework. This study forms a common basis for the four empirical studies that follow. All four empirical studies use data from the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) to investigate the relationships among the major elements of the conceptual framework presented in the first study. Study I. A conceptual framework for the analysis of learning outcomes This study brings together some key concepts and theories that are relevant for the analysis of learning outcomes. Many of the concepts and theories have emerged from varied disciplines including economics, educational psychology, cognitive science and sociology, to name only a few. Accordingly, some of the research questions inherent in the framework relate to different disciplinary perspectives. The primary purpose is to create a common basis for formulating and testing hypotheses as well as to interpret the findings in the empirical studies that follow. In particular, the framework facilitates the process of theorizing and hypothesizing on the relationships and processes concerning lifelong learning as well as their antecedents and consequences. Study II. Determinants of literacy proficiency: A lifelong-lifewide learning perspective This study investigates lifelong and lifewide processes of skill formation. In particular, it seeks to estimate the substitutability and complementarity effects of learning in multiple settings over the lifespan on literacy skill formation. This is done by investigating the predictive capacity of major determinants of literacy proficiency that are associated with a variety of learning contexts including school, home, work, community and leisure. An identical structural model based on previous research is fitted to the IALS data for 18 countries. The results show that even after accounting for all factors, education remains the most important predictor of literacy proficiency. In all countries, however, the total effect of education is significantly mediated through further learning occurring at work, at home and in the community. Therefore, the job and other literacy related factors complement education in predicting literacy proficiency. This result points to a virtual cycle of lifelong learning, particularly to how educational attainment influences other learning behaviours throughout life. In addition, results show that home background as measured by parents’ education is also a strong predictor of literacy proficiency, but in many countries this occurs only if a favourable home background is complemented with some post-secondary education. Study III. The effect of literacy proficiency on earnings: An aggregated occupational approach using the Canadian IALS data This study uses data from the Canadian Adult Literacy Survey to estimate the earnings return to literacy skills. The approach adapts a labour segmented view of the labour market by aggregating occupations into seven types, enabling the estimation of the variable impact of literacy proficiency on earnings, both within and between different types of occupations. This is done using Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM). The method used to construct the aggregated occupational classification is based on analysis that considers the role of cognitive and other skills in relation to the nature of occupational tasks. Substantial premiums are found to be associated with some occupational types even after adjusting for within occupational differences in individual characteristics such as schooling, literacy proficiency, labour force experience and gender. Average years of schooling and average levels of literacy proficiency at the between level account for over two-thirds of the premiums. Within occupations, there are significant returns to schooling but they vary depending on the type of occupations. In contrast, the within occupational return of literacy proficiency is not necessarily significant. The latter depends on the type of occupation. Study IV: Determinants of economic and social outcomes from a lifewide learning perspective in Canada In this study the relationship between learning in different contexts, which span the lifewide learning dimension, and individual earnings on the one hand and community participation on the other are examined in separate but comparable models. Data from the Canadian Adult Literacy Survey are used to estimate structural models, which correspond closely to the common conceptual framework outlined in Study I. The findings suggest that the relationship between formal education and economic and social outcomes is complex with confounding effects. The results indicate that learning occurring in different contexts and for different reasons leads to different kinds of benefits. The latter finding suggests a potential trade-off between realizing economic and social benefits through learning that are taken for either job-related or personal-interest related reasons. Study V: The effects of learning on economic and social well being: A comparative analysis Using the same structural model as in Study IV, hypotheses are comparatively examined using the International Adult Literacy Survey data for Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The main finding from Study IV is confirmed for an additional five countries, namely that the effect of initial schooling on well being is more complex than a direct one and it is significantly mediated by subsequent learning. Additionally, findings suggest that people who devote more time to learning for job-related reasons than learning for personal-interest related reasons experience higher levels of economic well being. Moreover, devoting too much time to learning for personal-interest related reasons has a negative effect on earnings except in Denmark. But the more time people devote to learning for personal-interest related reasons tends to contribute to higher levels of social well being. These results again suggest a trade-off in learning for different reasons and in different contexts.

The library in the TVA adult education program,

"Selected references": p. [67]-68.

Adult literacy in Illinois : results of the State Adult Literacy Survey /

"January 1994."

Library literacy program, analysis of funded projects.

At head of title: Library programs, LCSA VI.

An overview of the adult literacy initiative in America /

Mode of access: Internet.

Equipped for the future : a customer-driven vision for adult literacy and lifelong learning /

"July 1995."

National Adult Literacy Congress, leadership in action : September 17-20, 1993 : goals and action plans : source notes--summary /

Mode of access: Internet.