“I have a mobile 12-computer lab
in a motor home that I take onto various manufacturing campuses,”
Faulk says. “My students are employed adults who need
to develop or upgrade their skills to advance in their jobs.”
Faulk’s adult learners range from
those working toward a GED to students who need a brush-up
in disciplines such as trigonometry to earn industry certifications
of various types. “Some of my students have been out
of school for a while, and they just need to sharpen their
skills and reinforce concepts they might have forgotten,”
Faulk says.
| “We
use it because it works.” |
“Although we have the reading,
writing, and science modules, my students work primarily
with the PassKey mathematics program, so our research involved
mathematics.”
Twelve students preparing for the GED
took the Test of Adult Basic Education to determine their
proficiency; their average mathematics score was grade level
7.2. For approximately ten weeks, from January to March
2003, the students used PassKey only three hours per week.
By the end of the research period, the students’ average
scores had jumped to 9.6, more than two grade levels.
Faulk is a strong advocate of the PassKey approach. "We love it. We use it because it works. We buy every upgrade that's produced because it's so effective, even with adults. It works wherever you have computers and students who want to learn."
