Syracuse Labor/Management Consortium Workplace Literacy Skills Improvement Project. Evaluation Report.

Autor/inn/en	Mosenthal, Peter B.; Hinchman, Kathleen A.
Institution	Onondaga-Cortland-Madison Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Syracuse, NY.
Titel	Syracuse Labor/Management Consortium Workplace Literacy Skills Improvement Project. Evaluation Report.
Quelle	(1993), (221 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Leitfaden; Unterricht; Lehrer; Adult Basic Education; Adult Literacy; Basic Skills; Cooperative Programs; Documentation; Education Work Relationship; Inplant Programs; Labor Education; Literacy Education; Mathematics Instruction; Outcomes of Education; Program Effectiveness; Program Evaluation; Skill Development; Testing; Unions; Workplace Literacy; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lesson concept; Instruction; Unterrichtsentwurf; Unterrichtsprozess; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult education; Erwachsenenbildung; Basic skill; Grundfertigkeit; Dokumentation; Betriebliche Weiterbildung; Labour education; Arbeitserziehung; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Testdurchführung; Testen
Abstract	An evaluation of this Syracuse, New York workplace literacy skills improvement project had three purposes: to characterize changes in the baseline performance of adults' workplace literacy skills as a function of instructional treatment; to characterize changes in workers' and supervisors' perceptions of worker effectiveness as a function of instructional treatment; and to monitor the project for compliance with grant specifications. Participants included a total of 67 workers from a variety of Syracuse-area manufacturing companies. They were evaluated using the Educational Testing Service's Tests of Applied Literacy Skills, which measure three domains: document, quantitative, and prose literacy. The evaluations showed that attendance at classes ranged from 73 to 100 percent for the 9 classes that were offered. In addition, almost all teacher-made pre/posttests showed gains. The project suffered from plant layoffs and shutdowns, decreasing the numbers of employees who participated and making evaluation more difficult. However, workers and their supervisors were pleased with the classes and workers also expressed increased self-confidence. The report includes scoring rules for the evaluation tests. Also appended are sample forms used in the project, an explanation of developing contextualized curricula, and curriculum outlines for the following courses: math for maintenance, technical documentation, metric conversion for blueprint reading, math for statistical process control, procedural documentation, math for charting, math for machine operators, and metric immersion for skilled trades. (Contains 11 references.) (KC)
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