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Improving Adult Literacy Outcomes : Lessons from Cognitive Research for Developing Countries

Despite the existence of about one billion illiterates in the world, adult literacy programs make up 1-5 percent of government or donor budgets, and they remain severely underfunded in comparison to primary education. Though dropout and course comp...

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Main Author: Abadzi, Helen
Language:English
en_US
Published: 2013
Subjects:
ABE
ADULT BASIC EDUCATION
ADULT EDUCATION
ADULT ILLITERACY
ADULT LITERACY
ADULT LITERACY INSTRUCTION
BASIC EDUCATION
BASIC SKILLS
BIOLOGY
CLIENT COUNTRIES
COMPLEXITY
CONTINUING EDUCATION
CURRICULUM
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
EDUCATION PROJECTS
EDUCATION SECTOR
ESSENTIAL SKILLS
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
ILLITERACY
ILLITERATES
INTERVENTIONS
LANGUAGES
LEARNING
LEVEL OF EDUCATION
LITERACY ACTIVITIES
LITERACY CAMPAIGNS
LITERACY CLASSES
LITERACY INSTRUCTION
LITERACY PROGRAMS
LITERACY PROJECTS
LITERACY RATES
LITERACY RESEARCH
LITERACY SKILLS
LITERACY TESTS
LITERACY TRAINING
NER
NON-FORMAL EDUCATION
NONFORMAL EDUCATION
NUMERACY
POLICY DEVELOPMENT
POVERTY REDUCTION
PRIMARY SCHOOL
QUALITY EDUCATION
RADIO
READING
READING COMPREHENSION
READING DIFFICULTIES
READING INSTRUCTION
READING MATERIALS
READING SCORES
READING SKILLS
READING TIME
REASONING
REDUNDANCY
RURAL AREAS
SCHOOLS
TEACHER SELECTION
TEACHER TRAINING
TEACHERS
TEACHING
TEXTBOOKS
UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION
VOCABULARY
WRITTEN LANGUAGE
YOUTH LITERACY
DONORS
SOCIAL BENEFITS
COGNITIVE ABILITY
TRAINING
HEALTH ISSUES
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/06/2427511/improving-adult-literacy-outcomes-lessons-cognitive-research-developing-countries
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15136

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/06/2427511/improving-adult-literacy-outcomes-lessons-cognitive-research-developing-countries
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15136

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