Greetings fellow list subscribers.  I hope that your work has gotten off to 
a good and hopeful start in this new year.

I am wondering if any of you used the resource "How Are We Doing?": An 
Inquiry Guide for Adult Education Programs, which was published by the 
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) in 
2001.  In the introduction to "How Are We Doing?", the authors address 
three questions that instructors and program administrators ask: (1) What 
difference are we making? (2) How do we know? and (3) "How can we show it?"

This guide seems to be one possible way to explore a question about quality 
in adult basic and literacy education that was posted last month on the 
AAACE-NLA online discussion list.  The posting by Thomas Sticht included 
the heading "Can We Improve Quality in Adult Literacy Education If We Don't 
Know What Quality Is?". {To view the archives, go to 
http://lists.literacytent.org/pipermail/aaace-nla.}

For those who have used "How Are We Doing?": An Inquiry Guide for Adult 
Education Programs, please consider commenting about your experience. (I am 
also curious as to whether you agree that it addresses the issue about 
quality noted above.)

For those who are unfamiliar with "How Are We Doing?", you can find it at 
http://pli.cls.utk.edu/comp_models.htm (scroll down the page to find the 
actual title).

Thank you,
Kim