Improving Literacy Instruction for Adults

改善成人识字教学

• 批准号: 6666940
• 负责人: Daryl F Mellard
• 金额: $ 67.33万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-25 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6666940
• 关键词: adult human (21+); clinical research; comprehension; education evaluation /planning; human subject; interview; learning; questionnaires; reading

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Adult Literacy programs struggle to provide effective instruction for adults seeking their services. A growing convergence of research findings reveals how to improve instruction with children and adolescents. We propose to extend the knowledge garnered with these younger populations to addressing adults' needs. Our goal is to validate instructional interventions appropriate for adults with limited literacy proficiency. Our application offers a multi-disciplinary, systematic, and programmatic research plan with three aims. First, we will research what component skills for reading are incorporated within common assessments of literacy (CASAS, NAAL, and GED). This will aid in the design of effective adult interventions and give us the necessary information to explicate an intervention model linking the relationship of reading components and interventions to global adult literacy outcomes. Our group has extensive success improving children and youth literacy and, more recently, in adult education settings. We will adapt our interventions to the adult learner and adults' instructional settings. Second, we will select appropriate interventions based on our Aim 1 findings and rigorously test these interventions with adults under well-controlled conditions. We are specifically interested in enhancing performance on the component reading skills of word analysis, fluency, and reading comprehension. We predict that these skills will be closely related to gains on adult literacy measures. Our final aim addresses the significant issue of successfully translating research findings into practice in more typical settings. More specifically, these studies will examine how effective these interventions are on learners' outcomes when the research controls and supports are reduced from what was available in the previous studies.

描述（由申请人提供）：成人扫盲计划努力为寻求他们服务的成年人提供有效的指导。越来越多的研究结果揭示了如何改善对儿童和青少年的教学。我们建议将从这些年轻人那里获得的知识扩展到解决成年人的需求。我们的目标是验证适合读写能力有限的成年人的教学干预措施。我们的申请提供了一个多学科、系统和程序化的研究计划，有三个目标。首先，我们将研究哪些阅读技能组成部分被纳入了常见的读写能力评估（CASAS、NAAL和GED）。这将有助于设计有效的成人干预措施，并为我们提供必要的信息，以解释将阅读成分和干预措施与全球成人扫盲结果的关系联系起来的干预模型。我们的小组在提高儿童和青少年的读写能力方面取得了广泛的成功，最近在成人教育方面也取得了成功。我们将使我们的干预措施适应成人学习者和成人的教学环境。其次，我们将根据Aim 1的研究结果选择适当的干预措施，并在控制良好的条件下对成年人进行严格的测试。我们特别感兴趣的是提高词汇分析、流畅性和阅读理解等部分阅读技能的表现。我们预测，这些技能将与成人识字率的提高密切相关。我们的最终目标是解决在更典型的环境中成功地将研究成果转化为实践的重要问题。更具体地说，这些研究将检查当研究控制和支持从以前的研究中减少时，这些干预措施对学习者的结果有多有效。