Adult Basic Education: Community Health Partnerships and Health Disparities [PDF]
Health Literacy Research and Practice, 2019 Background: Adult Basic Education (ABE) is the national system that offers adults with low literacy and/or limited English with educational services in reading, writing, math, technology, and communications from basic levels to high school equivalency ...
Marcia Drew Hohn +7 more
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Special Supplement: Health Literacy and Adult Basic Education [PDF]
Health Literacy Research and Practice, 2019 This supplement of HLRP: Health Literacy Research and Practice seeks to affirm the relevance of adult basic education (ABE) to advancements in the health literacy field.
Maricel G. Santos +1 more
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Health Systems and Adult Basic Education: A Critical Partnership in Supporting Digital Health Literacy [PDF]
Health Literacy Research and Practice, 2019 Technological innovation often is presented as a way for health systems to deliver services to more patients at a lower cost. However, this increase in technology usage has changed what patients are expected to know and do without any additional ...
Kathy Harris +2 more
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A Quantile Regression Approach to Understanding the Relations Among Morphological Awareness, Vocabulary, and Reading Comprehension in Adult Basic Education Students. [PDF]
J Learn Disabil, 2016 The purpose of this study was to investigate the joint and unique contributions of morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge at five reading comprehension levels in adult basic education (ABE) students.
Tighe EL, Schatschneider C.
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Reading component skills of learners in adult basic education. [PDF]
J Learn Disabil, 2010 The purposes of this study were to investigate the reliability and construct validity of measures of reading component skills with a sample of adult basic education (ABE) learners, including both native and nonnative English speakers, and to describe the
MacArthur CA +3 more
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Signposts of change in the landscape of adult basic education in Austria: a telling case
European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 2020 Drawing on a strongly grassroots and expertise-supported development in the field of adult basic education in Austria, this paper traces the current shift to politically motivated interventions.
Irene Cennamo +2 more
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Modeling the Relations Among Morphological Awareness Dimensions, Vocabulary Knowledge, and Reading Comprehension in Adult Basic Education Students. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2016 This study extended the findings of Tighe and Schatschneider (2015) by investigating the predictive utility of separate dimensions of morphological awareness as well as vocabulary knowledge to reading comprehension in adult basic education (ABE) students.
Tighe EL, Schatschneider C.
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The Contributions of Phonological and Morphological Awareness to Literacy Skills in the Adult Basic Education Population. [PDF]
J Learn Disabil, 2016 The Adult Basic Education (ABE) population consists of a wide range of abilities with needs that may be unique to this set of learners. The purpose of this study was to better understand the relative contributions of phonological decoding and ...
Fracasso LE, Bangs K, Binder KS.
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The Impact and Outcomes of Integrating Health Literacy Education Into Adult Basic Education Programs in Boston [PDF]
Health Literacy Research and Practice, 2019 Background: Adult basic education (ABE) is the national system that offers educational services in English language development, reading, writing, math, technology, and communications to adults with low literacy, limited English, or both.
Marcia Drew Hohn, Lorna Rivera
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Defining Success in Adult Basic Education Settings: Multiple Stakeholders, Multiple Perspectives. [PDF]
Read Res Q, 2013 This study employed quantitative and qualitative research approaches to investigate what constitutes “success” in Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs from the perspectives of multiple educational stakeholders: the state funding agency, the teachers, and
Tighe EL +3 more
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