Evaluation of the U.S. Army Basic Skills Education Program

Abstract

This report covers a 5-year evaluation of the Army's Basic Skills Education Program. It details the evaluation methodology and the activities carried out, as well as problems encountered and the effects of these problems on the work. Results indicate that the program's impact is favorable in that participants consistently showed improvements in test scores. However, substantial numbers of soldiers graduated from these programs without meeting criterion levels of test performance. Keywords: English as a second language; Functional literacy; Program evaluation; Reading; Writing; Speaking; and Mathematics.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA178650

Entities

People

  • Clifford P. Hahn
  • Harvey Rosenbaum
  • Joan Harman
  • Robert E. Krug
  • Susan C. Stoddart

Organizations

  • American Institutes for Research

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Attrition
  • Control Systems
  • Databases
  • Doctrine
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Grammars
  • Information Systems
  • Instructors
  • Language
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Science
  • Personnel Management
  • Quality Control
  • Recruiting
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Education

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