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Development of Program Guide 1990
The ABE Level III Program Guide was developed to the level of general learning
objectives in 1990 by a team of experienced adult educators and high school
practitioners with the advice and assistance of a Project Management Team
representing the Department of Education and a Provincial Advisory Committee
representing the Department and each of the provincial institutions involved in the
delivery of ABE. The process of developing general learning objectives combined
research and consultation. Program outlines and curriculum guides from various
provinces of Canada, as well as Britain and the United States were reviewed and a
large body of literature on adult education, national and international, was consulted.
At the second draft stage of the development of the guide, copies of the work to date
were circulated throughout the Avalon Community College region and to each of the
provincial institutions. Adult education practitioners and organizers were invited to
submit their views on the work and to make suggestions for changes or additions. A
project validation meeting was held prior to the preparation of the final report. Adult
education practitioners from the Avalon region and from each provincial institution
involved in ABE delivery were invited to participate in the validation process.
ABE Program Review and Monitoring (1992-1994)
In September 1992, two years after the introduction of the new ABE program, the
Department of Education and the five regional colleges commissioned a review. An
ABE Review Committee representing the five colleges and the Department of
Education was mandated to review all aspects of curriculum and delivery. The
review included site visits and college-wide surveys. The Committee submitted a
Review Report to the regional colleges and the Department of Education in May
1993. The report made recommendations based on the information collected. One
of the report=s recommendations was that a permanent ABE Monitoring Committee,
representing the regional colleges and the Department of Education, be established.
The ABE Monitoring Committee was established in September 1993. They were
given the authority to recommend program changes and to establish mechanisms for
continual program review.
ABE Revision (1995)
In November 1993 the Monitoring Committee conducted a survey of instructors in all
ABE delivery sites. Results of those surveys were compiled and distributed to
instructors. Instructor Validation Committees were appointed with representation
from the five regional colleges. A Department of Education representative also
participated in the validation process. Survey results were discussed in each college
prior to the April 1994 validation meetings. At these meetings Instructor Validation
Committees summarized recommendations for reviews of all sections of the Adult
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