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NAWDP 40th Annual Conference
Mark your calendars to attend the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals (NAWDP) 40th Annual Conference on May 20-22, 2024 in San Antonio, TX. NAWDP's Annual Conference has become one of the largest annual gatherings of workforce development professionals, with more than 1,600 attendees from across the country.
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COABE National Conference
Learn about the new best practices and receive targeted training from national level speakers. Over 30 strands-comprised of more than 400 break out sessions will be offered, providing valuable, state-of-the-art training that you will be able to take back to your adult education program!
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Leveraging Data to Ensure Equitable and Effective Adult Skills Programming for Immigrants
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This issue brief presents a profile of immigrant and U.S.-born adults, based on analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. It looks at characteristics such as age, parental status, race and ethnicity, educational attainment, English proficiency, and employment and income. The analysis identifies disparities between immigrant and U.S.-born adults in income, levels of formal education and employment type. It also discusses the implications of key data trends for adult skills programs.
From: The Migration Policy Institute
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EdTech Strategy Session - Future of Work Report: AI at Work
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For the September EdTech Strategy Session, the EdTech Center @ World Education hosted LinkedIn's Senior Lead Manager of Economic Graph, Efrem Bycer. Efrem shared insights from the LinkedIn "Future of Work Report: AI at Work". With recent advancements in AI comes a shifting demand for certain technical and human skills, giving new areas to focus on as we aim to prepare adult learners for the future of work and technology. Watch the recording of Efrem's lightning talk here and register for the October EdTech Strategy Session here.
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COABE Presents: New Measurable Skill Gains Models Are Coming. Are You Ready?
Satisfied with current NRS tests? Probably not. On June 13th, come learn what the future of Measurable Skill Gains assessment looks like. Assessment researchers and leading adult education practitioners will describe how revolutionary new methods are being applied to support the next generation of NRS assessments under a Department of Education project.
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COABE Presents: New Measurable Skill Gains Models Are Coming. Are You Ready?
Satisfied with current NRS tests? Probably not. Come learn what the future of Measurable Skill Gains assessment looks like. Assessment researchers and leading adult education practitioners will describe how revolutionary new methods are being applied to support the next generation of NRS assessments under a Department of Education project.
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EdTech Bytes: Generative Artificial Intelligence
There's been a lot of chatter lately about Generative AI, its uses, implications, and rapid advancement. World Education presents this four-part series as a way to cover the basics and dive deeper into what this could mean for educators and workforce developers.
1️⃣ Zero to Hero - ChatGPT was released in November of 2022. Get caught up with what has happened since.
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A First Look: Examining Information Processing Skill Proficiencies Among Black Adults in the U.S. Using the PIAAC Data
Does education and health-related literature tend to accurately convey the heterogeneous information processing skill profile of the diverse Black or African American U.S. population? What within-group differences can be observed using PIAAC data, and how might these differences inform policymakers and practitioners in the 21st century?
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Linking Adult Education to Workforce Development in 2018–19: Early Implementation of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act at the Local Level
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The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 includes new requirements and incentives to strengthen the link between its Title II -- adult education -- and the overall workforce development system. This report from a national evaluation of Title II examines the extent to which local adult education providers’ instructional approaches and coordination with other agencies in 2018-19 reflected this link and highlights the challenges providers reported collecting related performance data. A compendium provides detailed tables supporting the policy report. For more information about this report, visit the IES site here.
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Subject Area Frameworks for Adult Learners
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These aggregate frameworks provide a structure to support learning in five subjects relevant to adult learners: Civics Education, Digital Literacy, Financial Literacy, Health Literacy, and Workforce Preparation. They include domains, topics, and subtopics in each subject. The frameworks were developed by aggregating existing curricula, assessments, and frameworks used in adult education and compiling insights from organizations and individual instructors. Use them to support Teaching Skills That Matter-aligned instruction, to locate and use resources in SkillBlox, or as a checklist for planning instruction and assessment.
