Includes bibliographical references and index.

CONTENTS:
Interests and adult education -- Needs in reading instruction and adult basic education -- Differences between adults and youth affecting learning -- Life skills education for adult learners -- ABE urban extension : towards a strategy of intervention -- Adult basic education : some spin-off for culturally deprived youth education -- Reading diagnosis : evaluation in ABE classes -- A comparative readability study of materials used to teach adults to read -- Cognitive evaluation in ABE -- Criterion referenced testing for functional literacy -- Evaluating basic education for adults : some economic and methodological considerations -- The concept and measurement of functional literacy -- Token reinforcement and adult basic education -- Simulation games and adult education -- Cooperative learning process : shared learning experience in teaching adults to read -- Freire, Gray and Robinson on reading -- Language experience approach in a jobs corps reading lab -- Without reading you ain’t nothing -- Survival literacy : teaching reading to those with a “need to know” -- Using the tape recorder in teaching adults to read -- The usefulness of five basic word lists in teaching adults to read -- The effectiveness of taped reading instruction in increasing the reading rate and comprehension of undereducated adults -- Everyday materials improve adults’ reading -- A computer assisted literacy development program -- Two-way TV technology and the teaching of reading -- Reading program helps employees step ahead -- PREP : hope for the educationally disadvantaged in the military service -- ABE classes for mentally ill : a new dimension for adult education -- Adult basic education and public libraries : services to the disadvantaged adult.