The Arlington Education and Employment Program (REEP)/Hotel Workplace Literacy Project served 230 functionally illiterate adults working in hotels and a real estate maintenance firm in Virginia. Job-related English and math, citizenship preparation, and work awareness instruction was provided. An evaluation found that: (1) the project effectively addressed the needs of employees with limited proficiency in English who were in great need of literacy training; (2) trainees' abilities in math were also very limited; (3) both quantitative and qualitative measures of employee performance indicated the project was successful; (4) the most positive project impact was on employee morale and overall performance; (5) the project partnership between the Chamber of Commerce, public schools, and hotels in Arlington, Virginia, was successful; and (6) most supervisors reported that productivity and efficiency increased and that safety improved. Reliable longitudinal data on employee turnover were not available. The project learning center was considered a model operation. (The document contains 22 figures.) (CML)
Authors
- Authorizing Institution
- Arlington County Public Schools, VA.
- Location
- Virginia (Arlington)
- Peer Reviewed
- F
- Publication Type
- Reports - Evaluative
- Published in
- United States of America
- Sponsor
- Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. Div. of Adult Education and Literacy.
Table of Contents
- ARLINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS 2
- Percent of Trainees Reporting 04E200 15
- Planned Outcom 1.3 - See Planned Outcome 1.1 above. 22
- Top priority should 24
- Focused effort should or short-term 31
- Standardized Scores 100-pt. Scale 33
- Percent of Trainees Reporting N 33
- Gains by Compieters 100-pt. Scale Percent of Reporting Trainees N 34
- 20-26 34
- 40-49 34
- Gains by Completers from Pre- Posttest 34
- 200-299 34
- Greatly-Moderately Improved N128 37
- Greetiy-Moderately Improved N128 39
- After 40
- 40-49 41
- 60-69 41
- 80-89 41
