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Performance Assessments for Adult Education: Exploring the Measurement Issues: Report of a Workshop

The Workforce Investment Act (WIA), enacted by Congress in 1998, requires states to establish a comprehensive accountability system for adult education programs. The WIA mandates that states must ...
Psychology Today

Helping Adult Learners by Guiding from the Sidelines

Andragogy, a term initially coined by the German educator Alexander Kapp in 1833, was later popularized by American educator Malcolm Knowles. It signifies a shift in educational methods and practices, ...
EdSource

Adult education on K-12 campuses is so much more than you might guess

EdSource · What a California State University’s new polytechnic status means for its future What a California State University’s new polytechnic status means for its future June 11, 2026 - As a ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Performance Assessments for Adult Education: Exploring the Measurement Issues: Report of a Workshop

The discussion during the workshop highlighted a number of key challenges that must be addressed when performance assessments are used for accountability in the federal adult education system: (1) ...
San Mateo Daily Journal

Adult education on K-12 campuses is so much more than you might guess

There’s an incredibly important program that takes place in the back lots of a number of K-12 school sites. Adult Education serves students aged 18 and over in English as a second language, ...