[NLA] Research in adult literacy education

[AWilder106@aol.com]

Dear Nancy,

Please excuse me for butting in on this very interesting discussion, but I am 
puzzled.  It sounds from your description as though policy, derived from 
research, is being dumped on you, your voice was not heard in the original 
research, and now there is a mismatch between student needs that you observe 
and policy requirements.  Am I right? Maybe not. I think the only policy 
demand that has been thrashed out on the NLA regards reporting requirements, 
and I don't know how they are linked, if they are, to research findings.  
Could you be specific on this point?  Or is it that no one is listening to 
what you want to say?

As regards methodology, the research reports I've read and the research I 
participated in were very specific about how the sample (programs, teachers, 
etc.) were drawn, and to what population they could therefore be generalized 
to.  

Thanks.

Andrea
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