Thanks, Gary.  It's nice to know this work is useful.  I believe the handbook you referred to has been widely used in Canada and also in Massachusetts and New York State.  I continue to use it in my work in the planning of career pathway programs in New Jersey.  

A little more history:  

-- The ABC CANADA guidebook that Gary refers to grew in part out of the "team evaluation" work that Laura Sperazi and I did at NIFL. 

-- One of the partners in Gary's organization, the Civil Service Employees Association, was part of an informal network of workplace educators that grew out of both the National Workplace Literacy Program and the NIFL and ABC CANADA research on collaborative (team) approaches to worker education.  The network, called the Workplace Education Collaborative, met off and on for about two years in upstate New York and Massachusetts.

My point is:  Investment in demonstration projects in workplace education paid off not only for the workers and companies that participated in the programs but for the practitioners who developed and shared new workplace education practices.  

Thanks to the organizers of this NIFL discussion list for providing a vehicle for continued  collaborative development of our field.   

Paul Jurmo  

-----Original Message-----
From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Gary Bartolina
Sent: Mon 9/15/2008 12:00 PM
To: The Workplace Literacy Discussion List
Subject: [Workplace 1596] Re: Evaluations of National WorkplaceLiteracyProgramprojects
 
Paul,

Every time you do a posting I rush to read it, they are always so
helpful! 

Just this weekend I was reading the Collaborative Needs Assessment you
did for ABC Canada along with Sue Folinsbee back in 1994.  I am using it
as a guideline for us to conduct a NY statewide assessment of NYS-CSEA
represented employees need for ABE courses.


Ms. Gary Bartolina, Program Manager
Adult Education Basics
NYS & CSEA  Partnership for Education & Training
Corporate Plaza East - Suite 502
240 Washington Avenue Extension
Albany, NY 12203
Phone: 518-473-4990
Fax: 518-473-9457
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-----Original Message-----
From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:workplace-bounces at nifl.gov] On
Behalf Of JURMO at ucc.edu
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 8:59 PM
To: workplace at nifl.gov
Subject: RE: [Workplace 1569] Re: Evaluations of National Workplace
LiteracyProgramprojects

Hello, Kaye and others,

I'm now catching up on emails and found the exchange below regarding
evaluations of NWLP programs.  A few comments:

-- Yes, the ERIC Clearinghouse at Ohio State University (mentioned by
David Rosen and Jim Parker) has/had an archive of the evaluations of the
NWLP programs.  This archive was reviewed by a national panel of experts
to identify some particularly useful evaluation reports.  I'm not sure
whether this valuable material is still accessible. 

-- The "Voices from the Field" report is a good summary of a two-day
meeting of NWLP project representatives.  Participants had a chance to
identify recommendations for improving the NWLP projects.  This
discussion led to some changes in NWLP policy. (Laura Sperazi and I were
the authors of that report.) 
 
-- When NIFL was first launched, the Institute funded Laura Sperazi and
me to do a series of documents on workplace education evaluation. These
included (a) a series of case studies of  workplace education programs
which used a "team"  approach to evaluate program activities (a
multistakeholder team planned and carried out an evaluation of program
activities); (b) a handbook on the team evaluation methodology which we
developed, and (c) a literature review about approaches and issues
related to workplace education evaluation.   

Given the continued importance of educating the U.S. workforce, it would
be great if policy makers and practitioners take the time to learn from
past experience as they consider how to build effective workforce
learning systems in the U.S. 

Paul Jurmo, Ed.D.
Dean, Economic Development and Continuing Education  
Union County College
New Jersey

-----


-----Original Message-----
From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Kaye Beall
Sent: Thu 7/31/2008 10:37 PM
To: workplace at nifl.gov
Subject: [Workplace 1569] Re: Evaluations of National Workplace
LiteracyProgramprojects
 
Here's a direct link to the proceedings of a meeting of project staff
from
the National Workplace Literacy Program in the early 1990's. The
publication is: Workplace Education: Voices from the Field. Proceedings,
National Workplace Literacy Program Project Directors Conference
(Washington, D.C., September 1991).
The URL is
http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019
b/
80/13/03/13.pdf
As one of the early grantees, I must say we learned a lot, but workplace
education has evolved from those early efforts.
Hope this helps,
Kaye
********
Kaye Beall
Project Director
World Education
6760 West Street
Linn Grove, IN 46711
765-717-3942
kaye_beall at worlded.org
www.worlded.org
 


-----Original Message-----
From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:workplace-bounces at nifl.gov] On
Behalf Of David J. Rosen
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:04 AM
To: The Workplace Literacy Discussion List
Subject: [Workplace 1564] Evaluations of National Workplace Literacy
Programprojects

Beatriz and others,

Sarah Newcomb, at OVAE, suggests that the best source of information on
those projects is at the local level, and that you may want to explore
some of the resources at

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+evaluation+of+national+workplace 
+literacy+program&btnG=Search

(i.e. do a web search using "evaluation of national workplace literacy
program")

David J. Rosen
djrosen at comcast.net



On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Diaz, Beatriz B. wrote:


> Was this email answered?  I would also like to see these documents if 

> they are still available.

> Thanks.

>

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> To: workplace at nifl.gov

> Subject: [Workplace 1555] Re: VESL

>

>

> A lot of materials were created  with funds from OVAE in the 

> Department of Education in the 90's. I believe Sarah Newcombe was the 

> program monitor. Does anyone know what happened to those documents? 

> Many of them were very specific to certain industries.

> Is there an archive anywhere???

>

> Diane Pecoraro

>

>

>

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