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Breaking the language barrier: A report on English language service ...

(2011)

John P. Comings, Lisa Soricone, Navjeet Singh, Katherine Shields, et al.

Assesses Massachusetts' English for Speakers of Other Languages system, demand and supply for services, their quantity and quality, and challenges ...

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Contribution to Book

Learner Persistence in Adult Education and Numeracy Programs

Tracking Adult Literacy and Numeracy: Findings from Longitudinal Research (2009)

John P. Comings and John Vorhaus

This case study describes England‟s adult basic skills education system, which grew out of reforms that began in 1999 and ...

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Case study: United States

(2008)

John P. Comings and John Benseman

As with many other OECD countries, the United States of America (U.S.) estimated the literacy skills of its adult population ...

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Adult literacy research: Opportunities and challenges

(2007)

John P. Comings and Lisa Soricone

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Contribution to Book

Learner Persistence

The Review of Adult Learning and Literacy (2007)

John P. Comings

Contribution to Book

Supporting the Persistence of Adult Basic Education Students

Defining and Improving Quality in Adult Basic Education (2007)

John P. Comings and Sondra Cuban

Unlike children, who participate in schooling because of legal mandates and strong social and cultural forces, most adult students choose ...

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Book

The Review of Adult Learning and Literacy

(2007)

John P. Comings

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An evidence-based model for adult education suitable for research

(2006)

John P. Comings, Maricel Santos and Lisa Soricone

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Article

Book review of Global Issues and Adult Education: Perspectives from ...

TCRecord (2006)

John P. Comings

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How do you teach content in education: An annotated bibliography

(2006)

John P. Comings and Elizabeth Zachary

Adding to the resources for evidence-based practices, this occasional paper provides sources of research and professional wisdom that are useful ...

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Book

The Review of Adult Learning and Literacy

(2006)

John P. Comings

Contribution to Book

Massachusetts: A Case Study of Improvement and Growth of Adult ...

The Review of Adult Learning and Literacy (2005)

John P. Comings and Lisa Soricone

In this chapter, John Comings and Lisa Soricone present a case study of the adult literacy system in Massachusetts, a ...

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Teaching adults to read: The education approach to adult literacy ...

(2005)

John P. Comings and Lisa Soricone

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Contribution to Book

The Process and Content of Adult Education in Family Literacy ...

Handbook on Family Literacy Programs (2005)

John P. Comings

Book

The Review of Adult Learning and Literacy

(2005)

John P. Comings

Contribution to Book

Literary skills of U.S. adults

Understanding health literacy: Implications for medicine and public health (2004)

John P. Comings and Irwin Kirsch

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As long as it takes: Responding to the challenges of ...

(2003)

John P. Comings, Sondra Cuban, Johannes Bos and Kristin Porter

Research has shown that meaningful improvements in adult literacy require more than the annual average of about 70 hours that ...

Presentation

Establishing an evidence-based adult education system

NCSALL (2003)

John P. Comings

The purpose of the seminar is to help practitioners, program directors, state staff, and other policymakers read and discuss NCSALL's ...

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Book

The Review of Adult Learning and Literacy

(2003)

John P. Comings

Contribution to Book

Adult literacy programs

Literacy in America: An encyclopedia of history, theory, and practice (2002)

John P. Comings

Book

The Annual Review of Adult Learning and Literacy

(2002)

John P. Comings

Article

Connecting research and practice

Focus on Basics (2001)

John P. Comings, Beth Bingman, Barbara Garner, Karen Rowe, et al.

In this article, we provide a brief overview of the research on educational research dissemination and utilization. We then describe ...

Article

Sharing what NSCALL is learning

Focus on Basics (2001)

John P. Comings

Presentation

Building a level playing field

NCSALL (2001)

John P. Comings, Stephen Reder and Andrew Sum

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