| A | B |
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| ABLENet | Technology resource center assisting practitioners in integrating technology in the classroom. |
| Adult Basic Education (ABE) | Instruction designed for adults that include grade-level measures normally encountered in grades 0 through 8.9. |
| Adult Secondary Education/General Educational Development (ASE/GED) | Instruction that includes grade levels as encountered in grades 9 through 12.9. |
| Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE) | Funding source for adult basic education programs. |
| Career Link | The Team Pennsylvania cooperative effort to provide one-stop delivery of career services to job seekers, employers and other interested individuals throughout Pennsylvania. |
| CASAS (Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System) | Assessment, training, and evaluation for adult learners. |
| English as a Second Language (ESL | Instruction designed for adults with limited English proficiency. |
| EQUAL(Educational Quality for Adult Literacy) | Statewide initiative to improve the quality of adult basic and literacy education in Pennsylvania. |
| Family Literacy | Agencies collaborating to provide AE, PT, PACT, ECE. |
| Indicators of Program Quality | Program characteristics or practices that provide evidence of a quality adult educaiton program. |
| LDC (Learning Differences Center) | Supports practitioners working with adult learners with learning differences/disabilities. |
| Learning from Practice | Professional development opportunities for practitioners interested in improving teaching and learning. |
| Level Attainment Checklists | Method to estimate a learner's year-end Educational Functioning Level attainment. |
| LiteracyPro | Information management system that tracks, aggregates, and reports program data. |
| NRS (National Reporting System) | Provides information to the federal government on adult education programs' outcomes. |
| PAACE (Pennsylvania Association for Adult Continuing Education) | Enables its diverse members to help adults achieve lifelong educational goals and to represent its members by exercising leadership at the local, state and national levels. |
| PAWin (Pennsylvania Workforce Improvement Network) | Helping to develop and expand the ability of ABE and training programs to provide high quality workplace skills. |
| PDCs (Professional Development Centers) | Offer a comprehensive professional development program providing technical assistance and ongoing support to AE Programs. |
| Performance Standards | Criteria used to define a level of expected performance. |
| PIT | An agency program improvement team that meets monthly for a minimum of three hours to address program improvement issues. |
| Workforce Investment Act | Source of federal funding for adult basic education, known as the "Adult Education and Family Literacy Act." |
