Authentic Materials: Questions for Researchers – to Inform Practitioners

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The Use of Authentic Materials in Adult Literacy Classrooms
Erik Jacobson
American Institutes for Research/CALPRO

Questions for Researchers – to Inform Practitioners

• How do you know your students are learning?
• How do you measure student achievement on a school-wide basis?
• How do results impact inmates?
• Use of technology as authentic material
• Impact of high school
• How can you privilege this work in ways that validate it up the food chain, i.e., you can’t test this with a standardized test, but learning gains occur?