Reasons Practitioners Use a State Literacy Resource Center. Practitioner Research Briefs, 1999-2000 Report Series.

Autor/in	Finn, Donald
Institution	Virginia Adult Educators Research Network, Dayton.
Titel	Reasons Practitioners Use a State Literacy Resource Center. Practitioner Research Briefs, 1999-2000 Report Series.
Quelle	(2000), (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Administrator Attitudes; Adult Basic Education; Adult Education; Adult Literacy; Conferences; Education Service Centers; Educational Attitudes; Educational Resources; Literacy Education; Program Effectiveness; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Centers; Teacher Surveys; Teacher Workshops; Use Studies; Virginia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult education; Erwachsenenbildung; Adult basic education; Adult training; Service center; Service centers; Service centre; Service centres; Pädagogisches Zentrum; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Bildungsmittel; Lehrerverhalten; Teacher centres; Lehrerzentrum; Benutzerschulung
Abstract	The Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center located at Virginia Commonwealth University serves various professional development needs of adult education practitioners throughout the state. In order to determine whether the center was providing the professional development resources, information, and services that the state's adult education practitioners wanted, a study was conducted to ask the question, "Why do adult education practitioners use a state literacy resource center?" Data were collected from three administrators, one program manager, two regional specialists, and four classroom teachers. All were Caucasian females ranging in age from the late 30s to the early 50s. Two group interviews were conducted (one with the administrators and the other with the teachers), and e-mail messages were collected. The study found five main reasons why practitioners use the center: (1) to receive information about off-site conferences and workshops; (2) to access on-site staff development and training opportunities; (3) to borrow from the lending library; (4) to access project and grant information; and (5) to receive referral information. The study concluded that the center works well to serve practitioners' needs and that it should keep doing what it is doing, especially offering access to conferences. (KC)
Anmerkungen	For full text: http://www.vcu.edu/aelweb/Donald_Finn.pdf.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC