Other NCSALL Materials

We have posted to this page links to other NCSALL materials of interest to researchers but which have not been published as a Report, Occasional Paper, or in the Review of Adult Literacy and Learning.

• Summaries of Papers Presented at 20th Annual Rutgers Invitational Symposium on Education (RISE)

Rutgers University Graduate School of Education hosted Toward Defining and Improving Quality in Adult Basic Education: Issues and Challenges, on October 23-24, 2003. Co-sponsored by the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) and Pennsylvania State University’s Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy and the Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy, this research conference focused on the challenges of defining what constitutes a quality adult basic and literacy education system. It also examined the ways in which research can inform the development and implementation of quality policy and practice. Recognizing that adult basic education seeks to meet the needs of a wide variety of stakeholders who learn in different contexts, the conference engaged researchers and practitioners with questions related to goals, accountability, and efficacy and efficiency in policy, practice, and research. Seventeen papers and several panel discussions were given by top researchers from around the country.

An edited volume of the conference papers is in preparation, but the book will not be available until 2006. Many individuals, both conference participants and non-attendees, expressed a strong interest in having the information presented in the papers available sooner. Accordingly, NCSALL agreed to provide summaries of 14 of the papers and make them available on their Web site. Click here to see the conference brochure.