Occasional Paper

Establishing an Evidence-based Adult Education System

The only reading that is not included in the study circle guide is the occasional paper, Establishing an Evidence-based Adult Education.

Comings, J. (2003). Establishing an Evidence-based Adult Education. Cambridge, MA : NCSALL.

This paper describes an approach to evidence-based adult education and proposes a way to establish an evidence-based adult education system. The evidence-based adult education system presented here requires a close collaboration between researchers and practitioners. For this system to work, policymakers would have to structure funding and administrative procedures in ways that support the adoption of evidence-based adult education practices. The goal of this paper is to convince researchers, funding agencies, policymakers, practitioners, and adult students to support the establishment of an evidence-based adult education system.

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