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Adult Learning ResourcesRelated Adult Learning Publications
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| Adult Basic Education & Community Colleges in Five States by Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy (CAAL), September 2003 | This paper analyzes adult education and literacy
program characteristics of community college systems in five states
(Oregon, California, Iowa, Connecticut, and Hawaii) based on research
conducted by the Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System (CASAS).
The characteristics investigated include size of enrollment,
demographics, education level, retention, staffing, service to welfare
clients, and learning gains. http://www.caalusa.org/casasworkingpaper.pdf |
| Adult Education &
Literacy and Community Colleges in Kentucky by Forrest P. Chisman |
This is Working Paper 4 in a series being issued by
Council for the Advancement of Adult Literacy (CAAL) in its task force
study of the role and potential of community colleges in adult education
and literacy. It provides the major findings, issues, and
recommendations about the adult education system in Kentucky. http://www.caalusa.org/caal_ky_case_chisman.pdf |
| Adult ESL and the Community College by JoAnn (Jodi) Crandall and Ken Sheppard, December 2004 | This is Working Paper 7 in a series being issued by
Council for the Advancement of Adult Literacy (CAAL) in its task force
study of the role and potential of community colleges in adult education
and literacy. It introduces some key issues about the quality and
articulation of ESL programs offered by community colleges. http://www.caalusa.org/eslreport.pdf |
| Adult Learners and
State Policy by Richard A. Voorhees and Paul E. Lingenfelter, February 2003 |
This study reviews the participation of adults in
postsecondary education and outlines policies and strategies states can
use to enhance the capacity of their work force. http://www.sheeo.org/pubs/pubs_results.asp?issueID=4 |
| The Adult Learning Gap
Why States Need to Change Their Policies Toward Adult Learners
by Alice Anne Bailey and James R. Mingle, October 2003 |
This paper explores the gap between the need for
lifelong learning and the capacity to support adult postsecondary
education needs with recommendations to help state leaders and others in
their efforts to close the gap. http://www.communitycollegepolicy.org/html/Issues/access/pdf/MingleReport.pdf |
| Best Practices in
Adult Learning A CAEL/APQC Benchmarking Study by Thomas A. Flint and Associates, 1999 |
This study reports on a year-long project to find and
document some the innovative ways that colleges and universities serve
adult learners. http://www.cael.org/publications_cael_books.htm |
| Breaking Through: Helping Low-Skilled Adults Enter and Succeed in College and Careers by Marty Liebowitz and Judith Combes Taylor, November 2004 | This report looks at whether and how community colleges
can significantly improve the odds that low-income, low-skilled adults
earn college-level occupational and technical credentials. http://www.jff.org/JFF_KC_Pages.php?WhichLevel=1 &lv1_id=4&lv2_id=0&lv3_id=0&KC_M_ID=67 |
| The Condition of Education 2004: Indicator 7 - Adult Participation in Work-Related Learning by John Wirt, Susan Choy, Patrick Rooney, Stephen Provasnik, Anindita Sen, and Richard Tobin, June 2004 | This report is Indicator 7 of a series of 38 indicators
in the National Center for Education Statistics Condition of Education
2004. It surveys and analyzes populations, 16 years old and above, who
participated in adult education for work-related reasons. http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2004/2004077.pdf |
| The Condition of Education 2004: Indicator 29 - Employees Who Study by John Wirt, Susan Choy, Patrick Rooney, Stephen Provasnik, Anindita Sen, and Richard Tobin, June 2004 | This report is Indicator 29 of a series of 38
indicators in the National Center for Education Statistics Condition of
Education 2004. It studies older undergraduates who consider themselves
employees first and students second. http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2004/2004077.pdf |
| Education and the Common Good: Social Benefits of Higher Education in Kentucky by Amy L. Watts, 2001 | This report attempts to answer the question: What
return the state of Kentucky can expect for the investment it is making
in the education of its citizens. http://www.kltprc.net/books/educationcommongood/education_and_the_common_good.pdf |
| Effectiveness and
Efficiency in Higher Education for Adults: A Guide to Fostering
Learning by Morris T. Keaton, Barry G. Sheckley, and Joan Krejci Griggs |
This book outlines eight key learning principles to
help adults learn best with greatest impact and least cost/effort
expended. http://www.cael.org/publications_cael_books.htm |
| Expanding Access to Learning: The Role of Virtual Universities by Carol A. Twigg, 2003 | The Center for Academic Transformation at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute assesses the current state of statewide virtual
university initiatives and offers an alternative strategy to the
predominant collaborative model. http://www.thencat.org/Monographs/Innovations.html |
| Findings from the Condition of Education 2002: Nontraditional Undergraduates by Susan Choy, August 2002 | This report contains a special analysis that is
republished from the Condition of Education 2002 in a booklet form. It
describes nontraditional undergraduates in terms of their demographic
characteristics, enrollment patterns, ways of combining school and work,
participation in distance education, and persistence patterns. http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/2002012.pdf |
| From the Prison Track to the College Track: Pathways to Postsecondary Success for Out-of-School Youth by Lili Allen, Cheryl Almeida, and Adria Steinberg, April 2004 | The authors of this publication focus on four types of
learning environments that appear to hold particular promise for
vulnerable and potentially disconnected youth. They identify the unique
characteristics that make these programs work, and identify four high
schools - one employing each approach - that help disengaged youth
graduate and go on to college and/or meaningful employment. http://www.jff.org/JFF_KC_Pages.php?WhichLevel=1 &lv1_id=4&lv2_id=0&lv3_id=0&KC_M_ID=79 |
| Held Back: How Student
Aid Programs Fail Working Adults by Brian Bosworth and Victoria Choitz, April 2002 |
This report provides findings from a project that
investigated how state and federal postsecondary student aid programs
might better support the education and training needs of working adults.
http://www.futureworks-web.com/pdf/Held%20Back%20report.pdf |
| The Investment Payoff: A 50-State Analysis of the Public and Private Benefits of Higher Education by Alisa Cunningham, Sarah Krichels, Jamie Merisotis, Christina Redmond Daulton, Melissa Clinedinst and Loretta Hardge, February 2005 | The Institute of Higher Education staff builds on the
work of other ongoing efforts that have consistently shown that going to
college has broad and quantifiable national impacts. This report
articulates the benefits of higher education for both state and local
governments utilizing a 50-state analysis. http://www.ihep.org/Pubs/PDF/InvestmentPayoff2005.pdf |
| Life After High School: Young People Talk about Their Hopes and Prospects by Jean Johnson and Ann Duffett with Amber Ott, 2005 | This survey of young adults examines the reasons behind
the decisions they make about work or college. The study analyzes the
academic and career expectations and experiences of young people (18 to
24 years old) of different racial and ethnic backgrounds. http://www.publicagenda.org/research/pdfs/life_after_high_school.pdf |
| Low-Income Adults in
Profile: Improving Lives Through Higher Education by Bryan Cook and Jacqueline E. King, February 2004 |
This report provides a detailed description of
low-income adult college students and the challenges they face as they
pursue postsecondary education. http://www.acenet.edu/bookstore/pubInfo.cfm?pubID=310 |
| A New Emphasis and
Funding Methodology for Adult and Career Education by Council for Education Policy, Research and Improvement, January 2004 |
The Council for Education Policy Research and
Improvement provides a report and recommendations for ensuring that the
critical area of adult and career education is funded appropriately in
the state of Florida. http://www.cepri.state.fl.us/pdf/Adult&Career%20Educ%20Funding%20final%20rpt.pdf |
| Opening Doors:
Expanding Educational Opportunities for Low-Income Workers
by Susan Golonka and Lisa Matus-Grossman, May 2001 |
This report is based largely on a roundtable meeting of
a wide-ranging group of policy-makers, public agency administrators and
researchers conducted by Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation and
the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices in April
2000 on expanding postsecondary opportunities for low-income working
parents and welfare recipients. http://www.mdrc.org/publications/101/full.pdf |
| Opening Doors:
Students’ Perspectives on Juggling Work, Family, and College
by Lisa Matus-Grossman Susan Gooden Melissa Wavelet, Melisa Diaz and Reishma Seupersad, May 2001 |
This study uses information gathered in focus groups at
six community colleges from current, former, and potential students
(most of them single parents) to explore institutional and personal
access and retention issues they face as they seek a workable balance of
college, work and family responsibilities. http://www.mdrc.org/publications/260/full.pdf |
| The Role of Community
Colleges in State Adult Education Systems A National Analysis by Vanessa Smith Morest, April 2004 |
This national report reveals that neither adult
education nor community college systems are adequately aware of the
large role that community college systems play as a service provider in
adult education and literacy across the country. It is the third
resource document to be issued by Council for the Advancement of Adult
Literacy (CAAL) in its study of community colleges and adult
education/literacy. http://www.caalusa.org/columbiawp3.pdf |
| Waiting to Attend College: Undergraduates Who Delay Their Postsecondary Enrollment by Laura Horn, Emily Forrest Cataldi, Anna Sikora, and C. Dennis Carroll, June 2005 | This report describes the characteristics and outcomes
of students who delay enrollment in postsecondary education. It analyzes
demographic characteristics, why and where they enroll, types of
programs, attendance patterns and likelihood of earning a credential of
students who delay postsecondary enrollment in comparison to their peers
who enroll immediately after high school graduation. http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2005/2005152.pdf |
| Workforce Contingent
Financial Aid: How States Link Financial Aid to Employment by Rita J. Kishstein, Andrea R. Berger, Elana Benatar, and David Rhodes, February 2004 |
This research report gives an account of the study
undertaken by the American Institutes for Research to understand the
overall efficacy of the workforce-contingent financial aid programs. http://www.luminafoundation.org/research/Workforce.pdf |
The Adult Learning Campaign is supported by a grant from Lumina Foundation for Education.
For further information, please contact Bruce Chaloux at bruce.chaloux@sreb.org.
