[AAACE-NLA] CASAS or EFF: Faith- or Evidence-Based?

[andresmuro@aol.com]

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From: tsticht at znet.com
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Sent: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:05:06 -0800
Subject: [AAACE-NLA] CASAS or EFF: Faith- or Evidence-Based?

Efforts to implement either competency-based or standards-based  
education
in adult literacy education over the last quarter system have also 
produced
no evidence to support these reforms. There has been no evaluation of 
the
Equipped for the Future (EFF) effort and the Comprehensive Adult Student
Assessment System ( CASAS) with its competency-based education (CBE)
approach has produced no evidence that programs implementing CBE are 
more
effective than programs that do not implement CBE.

At the present time, then, the movement to implement either CBE or EFF
content standards education in adult literacy education is progressing 
as a
faith-based rather than an evidence-based movement.

Tom:

This is called "the best professional wisdom that we have" I believe 
that WIA stipulates that both scientific research and professional 
wisdom are valid sources of knowledge. In other words, everything goes.

Andres