Return-Path: <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id iBAIlUU27973; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:47:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:47:30 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <41BC126E@webmail.utk.edu> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: jataylor <jataylor@utk.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:1792] From Tom, Any scientific evidence for professional development? X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Infinite Mobile Delivery (Hydra) SMTP v3.62.01 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Status: O Content-Length: 1903 Lines: 40 [The following inquiry is from Tom Sticht, please read on ~ Jackie] On April 15, 2003, following a strand of messages about "evidence-based" instruction and how AALPD members had gone about providing professional development to encourage "evidence-based" teaching, I asked Jackie to post a message for me in which I noted that I have been looking for reports in which it has been demonstrated in a "scientific, evidence-based" manner that adult literacy professional development has produced actual improvements in some aspects of adult literacy education somehwere. For instance, has some one demonstrated with "hard" evidence that professional development lead to more enrollments, or perhaps better retention, or maybe greater learning, or increased gains on standardized tests, more people reporting they reached personal goals, and so forth. Some 20 months later I am still looking for some researcher, professional developer, or other adult literacy expert who has documented in a "scientific, evidence-based" manner that they have gone to an existing adult literacy/ABE program somewhere and improved its functioning in some way. I have followed the various NIFL discussion lists for several years, I have read numerous books and journal articles from national and state literacy research and development centers, and I have tracked federal government web sites. I still cannot find any reports in which the researchers, professional developers, or other adult literacy experts actually went to an existing program and made it better providing scientifically acceptable evidence of their accomplishments. Has any professional developer who has posted messages on the AALPD list, or any researcher that reads the AALPD list accomplished any demonstrable improvements in an existing program anywhere that they can share information about? Thanks for your help! Tom Sticht tsticht@aznet.net
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