Windy Swearingin, Acting State ABE/GED Director
Employment and Training Services
Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development
P.O. Box 115509
1111 8th Street
Juneau, AK 99811-5509
Phone: (907) 465-8714
Fax: (907) 465-4186
windy.swearingin@alaska.gov
ABE: TABE
ESL: BEST Plus; BEST Literacy
State of Alaska’s Adult Basic Education Program built its own database.
GED: Data Match
Employment: Data Match
Transition to Postsecondary Education or Training: Data Match and Survey
Many data checks are written into the Statewide ABE Database.
At any time programs can pull their data into Excel spreadsheets from the statewide database. They can sort the data in endless ways and use it to figure out who needs to be post-tested, who hasn't been attending, which extended site has not been getting their data in, etc.
Alaska Adult Basic Education
http://www.ajcn.state.ak.us/abe/