A survey of Oklahoma Adult Comprehensive Learning Centers administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of Indian Education.

Abstract

The Survey of Oklahoma Adult Comprehensive Learning Centers administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of Indian Education successfully completed the study's objectives. First, the survey provided a thorough and accurate description of the extent of educational attainment among adult Indian educators in the state of Oklahoma. Second, the study was successful in developing an extensive data base of the programs and educational characteristics on the Adult Indian education programs within the state and within the participating tribal groups. Third, by conducting a survey of those characteristics as part of the survey, the survey results provide a detailed analysis of the educators of BIA, tribal, and urban learning centers in the state of Oklahoma.

The study was unique in that it was administered in large part and in conjunction with members of the Indian community being surveyed. This insures that the people who would be responsible for implementing program development and modification called for by the survey results had the fullest opportunity to provide guidance in the research surveying the education programs being affected. It surveyed the teacher training needs of Adult Basic Education and General Education development instructors of Oklahoma Indians. This resulting research will then be returned to those tribes to (A) help them assess the educational needs of their communities and (B) facilitate the coordination of their education efforts with those state and national agencies concerned with the educational needs of Indians within Oklahoma. It utilized data which was exclusively collected by Native Americans. It developed a data base which was, in many cases, previously unavailable to the tribe or to any statewide Indian education effort.