Equipped For The Future How Instructors Can Support Adult Learners Through Performance; And A Reform Agenda For Adult Literacy Lifelong Learning

Combines 2 reports on adult literacy & lifelong learning. (1) How Instructors Can Support Adult Learners Through Performance: Chapters: key characteristics of performance-based assess. (PBA) for the classroom; examples of PBA methods; scoring & reporting results on student performance; developing PBA tasks & preparing students for them; & the role of PBA in an adult learner assess. system. (2) A Reform Agenda for Adult Literacy & Lifelong Learning: Chapters: equip. Americans for the future; listening to cust. of the adult literacy system; standards-based system reform: defining common benchmarks for continuous improve.; what adults need to know & be able to do. Illustrated.WestEd, Sri Amanda is the author of 'Equipped For The Future How Instructors Can Support Adult Learners Through Performance; And A Reform Agenda For Adult Literacy Lifelong Learning', published 2000 under ISBN 9780756714017 and ISBN 075671401X.