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Materials available for downloading:

Condelli, L. (2000). National Reporting System for Adult Education: Guidelines.

Condelli, L. (1996). Evaluation Systems in the Adult Education Program: The Role of Quality Indicators.

Condelli, L., and Kutner, M. (1997). Developing a National Outcome Reporting System for the Adult Education Program.

Corley, M.A. (2005). Differentiated Instruction: Adjusting to the Needs of All Learners

Dimsdale, T. and Kutner, M. (2004). Becoming an Educated Consumer of Research: A Quick Look at the Basics of Research Methodologies and Design.

Kutner, M., Webb, L., and Matheson, N. (1996). A Review of Statewide lEarner Competency and Assessment Systems.

Additional Adult Education and Literacy materials:

Condelli, L. (March 2001). An update on the National Reporting System for adult education. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the State Directors of Adult Education, Memphis, TN.

Condelli, L. (2000). NRS Guidelines for Conducting the Follow-up Survey. Washington, DC: Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education.

Corley, M. A., and Taymans, J. (June 2001). Enhancing services to inmates with learning disabilities: Systemic reform of prison literacy programs. The Journal of Correctional Education , 52 (2).

Corley, M. A., and Taymans, J. (Fall 2001). The status of adults with learning disabilities and the role of self-determination: A review of the literature. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education .

Kutner, M., and Salinger, T. (April 2001). Measuring the literacy skills of America’s adults: An enhanced literacy framework and analytic models for the 2002 National Assessment of Adult Literacy. Paper presented at the National Council on Measurement in Education, Seattle, WA.

Kutner, M., Sherman, R., Tibbetts, J., and Condelli, L. (1997). Evaluating professional development: A framework for adult education.

Kutner, M., and Tibbetts, J. (1997). Looking to the future: Components of a comprehensive professional development system for adult educators.

Sherman, R., Green, K., Taylor, L., and Greenberg, I. (1997). Inquiry/research compendium.

Sherman, R., Rudick, S., Kendziora, K., Weidler, D., and Innes, F. (in press). Putting the PRO in protégé: A guide to mentoring in Head Start and Early Head Start. Report for the Policy and Program Studies for the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC.

Sherman, R., Tibbetts, J., Woodruff, D., and Weidler, D. (1999). Instructor competencies and performance indicators for the improvement of adult education programs. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Division of Adult Education and Literacy.

Sherman, R., Voight, J., Tibbetts, J., Dobbins, D., Evans, A., and Weidler, D. (2000). Adult educators’ guide to designing instructor mentoring, Washington, DC.

Sherman, R., Weidler, D., Tibbetts, J., and Dobbins, D. (2000). Management competencies and sample indicators for the improvement of adult education programs, Washington, DC.

Wasik, B., Herrmann, S., Dobbins, D., and Roberts, J. (in press). Family Literacy: A promising practice for the twenty-first century. In B. Day (Ed.), North Carolina Association for Supervision in Curriculum and Development (NC-ASCD) Journal of Curriculum and Instruction.

Wasik, B., Dobbins, D., and Herrmann, S. (in press). Intergenerational family literacy: concepts, research, and practice. In S. B. Neuman and D. Dickinson (Eds.), Handbook of Research in Early Literacy for the 21st Century. NY: Guilford Publications.