[AAACE-NLA] Towards Quality in Adult Literacy Education [fake d-from]

[Brown, Charlene]

Which standards are we to use?  Sounds like a leadership question.

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From: David Rosen [mailto:djrosen at comcast.net] 
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 6:37 PM
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Terry,

Your point is well taken.  There are many sets of program quality 
standards to consider.  Indeed, in addition to TESOL's, every state has 
a set of adult education program quality indicators/standards.  This is 
required by the U.S. Department of Education. And there might be a 
meta-analysis someplace that boils all these down to the standards that 
all these sets have in common.  (If there is, someone let me know.) In 
the last few years our country has gone standards-crazy.  We have so 
many, which set is a program supposed to use?

That problem aside, many of these program and curriculum standards 
(TESOL, Equipped For the Future Curriculum standards, some of the state 
quality indicators, the Baldridge standards and others) are a good 
place to start in improving program quality.  Perhaps the problem is 
that too few programs take seriously any set of standards.  I mentioned 
the Baldridge effort because it's a good example of one set of good 
program quality standards actually put to use in  improving program 
quality. I know it's not the only example.

Are others aware of programs taking a set of program quality standards 
seriously, that is, putting in the hard work, year after year, to 
collect data and make decisions to improve programs, leading to program 
quality?  How about examples from Pennsylvania, and from other states?

David J. Rosen
djrosen at com,cast.net





On Dec 18, 2004, at 4:07 PM, Terry Said wrote:

> My question is what exactly makes one group's
> standards for quality control better than another
> group's? I was curious about the Baldridge Method and
> went to look at its site. Apparently this is a
> business-model which I'm not saying is all bad but for
> those of us in ESL why would these standards be better
> than the standards of one of our parent organizations
> such as TESOL (Teachers of English to Students of
> Other Languages)which has spent time and professional
> effort developing standards for Adult Education ESL.
>
>
> Terry Pruett-Said
> ESL teacher
>
>
>
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