Establishing an Evidence-Based Adult Education System. NCSALL Occasional Paper.

Autor/inn/en	Comings, John P.; Beder, Hal; Bingman, Beth; Reder, Stephen; Smith, Cristine
Institution	National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, Boston, MA.
Titel	Establishing an Evidence-Based Adult Education System. NCSALL Occasional Paper.
Quelle	(2003), (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Adult Basic Education; Adult Learning; Adult Literacy; Adult Students; Cooperative Planning; Definitions; Educational Planning; Educational Research; English (Second Language); Guidelines; Instructional Development; Instructional Systems; Literacy Education; Program Validation; Research Methodology; Research Needs; Research Utilization; Secondary Education; Student Needs; Theory Practice Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult education; Erwachsenenbildung; Adulte education; Adult training; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Begriffsbestimmung; Bildungsplanung; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Richtlinien; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Unterrichtsorganisation; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Forschungsbedarf; Forschungsumsetzung; Sekundarbereich; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung
Abstract	To benefit from the support of public and private sector leaders and to ensure that all students receive effective services, the adult education system must identify program models that have empirical evidence to support claims of effectiveness. The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences defines evidence-based education as "the integration of professional wisdom with the best available empirical evidence in making decisions about how to deliver instruction." An evidence-based adult education system would have the following components: (1) basic and applied research; (2) program model evaluation; and (3) practitioner knowledge. These three components would work together in a cycle that continually improves program models. The main steps in establishing an evidence-based adult education system are as follows: (1) define groups of students to focus on in the initial baseline program evaluations; (2) for each group of students, identify specific achievement outcomes and tools for measuring them; (3) choose a few groups to begin with first; (4) support a team to develop the baseline program models for each group; (5) engage research methodology experts to design an evaluation of the baseline program models; and (6) publish a detailed description of the baseline program models and the program model evaluation methodology. (Contains 28 references.) (MN)
Anmerkungen	For full text: http://ncsall.gse.harvard.edu/research/op_comings3.pdf.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC