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Improving adult literacy outcomes: lessons from cognitive research for developing countries
(World Bank, 2003)
Abstract
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 ...
American Indian Students Speak Out: What's Good Citizenship?
(Ball State University, 2008)
For much of our country’s history, citizenship has eluded American Indian people. With this in mind, the authors conducted a study to determine the perceptions of eighth and eleventh grade American Indian students regarding ...
Navigating Early College: Literacy Experiences and Identity Negotiations of Latina/o Students
(College Literacy and Learning Special Interest Group of the International Reading Association, 2010)
This research provides insight into the adjustments of urban-schooled Latina/o students as they
enter higher education. This year-and-a-half-long qualitative case study focuses on connections
between identity negotiations ...
Literacy for all in 100 days? A research based strategy for fast progress in low income countries
(World Bank, 2013)
In low-income countries many students are marginalized very early and remain illiterate. In grades 1-3 they attend rarely, though they may officially drop out in grade 4. Many others graduate from primary school without ...
Developing cross language metrics for reading fluency measurement: Some issues and options
(World Bank, 2012)
Since 2005, over 70 oral reading fluency tests have been given in many languages and scripts, either as part of the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) or as individual one-minute tests. Particularly in multilingual ...
Effective teacher training in low income countries: The power of observational learning research
(World Bank, November 2)
The Education for All (EFA) initiative depends on students being taught by suitably and sufficiently trained teachers. But time-on-task studies conducted in low-income countries show that relatively little time is being ...
Simulating Burr Type VII Distributions through the Method of 𝐿-moments and 𝐿-correlations
(Scienpress Ltd., 2014)
Burr Type VII, a one-parameter non-normal distribution, is among the less studied
distributions, especially, in the contexts of statistical modeling and simulation
studies. The main purpose of this study is to introduce ...
Efficient Learning for the Poor : Insights from the Frontier of Cognitive Neuroscience
(The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank, 2006)
This book integrates research into applications that extend from preschool brain development to the memory of adult educators. In layman's terms, it provides explanations and answers to questions such as: Why do children ...