[NLA] Research in adult literacy education

[AWilder106@aol.com]

Sheryl,

I agree with you, especially after I read the brief job descriptions that 
David Rosen posted yesterday. This feels potentially like a policy jungle. 
Just to provide an example for your own point,  Nancy H.  recently went 
through all my questions and described clearly her sense of injustice, where 
and why it arose.  David used, I believe, evidence from this list when he 
went before a national policy representative in New Hampshire to testify 
about the pitfalls in the use of the NRS. There was lots of talk on the nla 
list on this topic.

Clearly one does not want to get booted from a job, but we need to find out 
how real this menace is, and on what research base future policy may be built 
from--specifically, the studies.

My extended example of a school evaluation I initiated  was done in private 
education, as was the participatory method I described for another cluster of 
private schools.  Here in the northeast we've got a lot of them.

Research can be done on any topic.  You can also do research on evaluation or 
just study evaluation, no research, take what is given.  When I did my work I 
scooted around the evaluation literature and came up with a different 
methodology, very sound, but definitely not ordinary.

So....what research are we talking about here?  On how people read and write? 
 Or on program effectiveness?  Or what?  I think it's important to identify 
the research base.  How are we going to do this?

Andrea
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