[AAACE-NLA] Delusion of Accountability in Adult Education

[AWilder106@aol.com]

Colleagues,

I may be ahead of the argument, here.

Victoria Purcell-Gates showed that contextualized adult literacy, where students had more of a say in what was included in  their  programs, translated into higher  literacy gains as measured by increases in adult literacy in the home.  Soft, right?  But tatistically sound.  NCSALL study.

Hypothetically, then, students who worked toward their own goals (with one hopes, connected texts that supported those goals), might score higher on the  (gasp!)  TABE.  This assumes, following Art's  point, and Tom Sticht's in a post quite a while ago, that literacy is generalizable across domains, e.g., words that appear on menus  are likely to appear other places, too.

Certainly a kind of triangulation.

Who is doing this?

Andrea