Policy and Adult Reading Instruction

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Policy and Adult Reading Instruction

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Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) Reading Initiatives

This page of the OVAE website describes major initiatives in the area of Reading funded and promoted by the United States federal government.

This page of the NCSALL [1] web site recommends specific NCSALL publications for policymakers.

Reder, S. (2009). Scaling up and moving in: Connecting social practices views to policies and programs in adult education. Literacy and Numeracy Studies, 17(1), 35-50.
- (from abstract) In this article research is presented that illustrates how measures of adults’ engagement in literacy and numeracy practices can be used in conjunction with well-entrenched proficiency measures to provide a richer quantitative framework for adult literacy and numeracy development. Longitudinal data about learners indicate that adult education programs are more closely aligned with practice engagement measures than with proficiency measures. Program participation leads to increased practice engagement that, over time, leads to the very gains in proficiency currently valued by policy makers.

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