Narelle McGlusky and Lenora Thaker explore the literacy and numeracy support systems available to Indigenous VET students and determine which systems work for both students and teachers and produce positive outcomes for Indigenous students, including successful completion. They outline a set of best practice guidelines for designing and developing literacy and numeracy support systems for...

Adding to NCVER’s comprehensive suite of adult literacy research overviews, this latest set for 2006 focuses on professional development for the language, literacy and numeracy workforce, literacy support of Indigenous people, and the social and economic benefits and costs of adult literacy provision. Overall, the suite of research overviews provides summaries across NCVER’s wide range...

Assessing the social and economic costs of poor adult literacy and numeracy skills, and the benefits of investing in such skills, is largely unchartered territory in Australia. In this feasibility study Robyn Hartley and Jackie Horne explore the frameworks and methodologies available for determining and measuring such benefits and costs across a number of life...

New information and communication technologies are changing literacy practices at an unprecedented rate, posing new questions and challenges for literacy educators. Using a case study approach, Ilana Snyder, Anne Jones and Joseph Lo Bianco examine the interaction between new and emerging digital technologies, adult learning and literacies for both educators and learners. Their findings demonstrate...

Rosa McKenna and Lynne Fitzpatrick explore how training practitioners are using the reforms in the national training system, and their knowledge of new approaches to teaching and learning to integrate language, literacy and numeracy into workplace training programs in the community services sector.