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Greetings,
This is cross-posted from the Assessment discussion list.
Aaron
>Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:01:39 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Marie Cora <marie.cora@hotspurpartners.com>
>Subject: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:1278] Seeking Studies of APL, CASAS, EFF
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>Dear List Members:
>
>The following post/request is from Tom Sticht.
>Thanks,
>marie cora
>__________________________________________
>
>
>In Search of Evidence for the Effectiveness of Standards-Based
>Approaches to
>Adult Basic Education
>
>Tom Sticht
>
>Years ago the federally sponsored Adult Performance Level (APL) study
>developed content standards (competencies), curricula aligned with the
>standards, and an APL assessment of the competencies. APL was
>implemented
>widely throughout the US.
>
>Similarly, the California sponsored CASAS has produced a system of
>content
>standards (competencies), curricula materials keyed to the standards,
>and
>an assessment system aligned to the standards.
>
>In a report [Sticht, T. G.; McDonald, B. A.; Erickson, P. R.(1998).
>Passports to Paradise: The Struggle To Teach and To Learn on the
>Margins
>of Adult Education. El Cajon, CA: Applied Behavioral and Cognitive
>Sciences, Inc., (available online at www.searchERIC.org] colleagues and
>I
>looked at twenty years of data and reports on the implementation of
>CASAS
>in California and could not find any data suggesting that this
>standards-based approach was any more effective in affecting retention,
>learning or achievement of goals than the "traditional" approaches.
>
>
>Most recently, another
>federally sponsored effort, EFF, has produced content standards,
>curriculum
>guides, and work toward assessment as another government sponsored
>effort to
>develop an integrated content standards, curriculum, assessment aligned
>instructional system for adult basic education, secondary education, and
>ESOL.
>
>I am interested in finding case studies in which either APL, CASAS, or
>EFF
>integrated programs are compared in experimental or quasi-experimental
>(treatment, convenience comparison group)research designs to
>"traditional"
>or "conventional" programs to determine if these integrated models are
>more
>effective than "traditional" programs in improving student learning as
>assessed by pre- and post-tests of the curriculum and/or on generic
>tests
>such as the TABE, ABLE, etc.
>
>If anyone knows of such studies, or any other studies of one ABE program
>versus another, I am interested in learning about them.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tom Sticht
>tsticht at aznet.net
Aaron Kohring
Coordinator, LINCS Literacy & Learning Disabilities Special Collection
Center for Literacy Studies, University of Tennessee
EFF Center for Training and Technical Assistance
Phone:(865) 974-4109 main
(865) 974-4258 direct
Fax: (865) 974-3857
e-mail: akohring@utk.edu
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