Overall mean grade was 7.6 for the 61 interviewees.

N = 61

School district withdrawals

The Adult Literacy Program of Surrey at the Invergarry I-earning Centre provided the writer with a list of names and telephone numbers of people whom they considered had "dropped out" in the fall term (September to December 1989), without giving any reason. There were 28 names from the day classes and 26 names from the evening classes for a total of 54. The writer undertook this telephone survey herself, using the first 12 questions of the Interview Guide for Withdrawals (Appendix C).

One-to-one tutoring withdrawal

The Learners' Network, a program of Project Literacy Victoria was approached to see whether the writer could interview persons who had withdrawn from one-to-one tutoring. As this is a community-based program which stresses confidentiality, the program staff felt that they should make the first contact to explain the request and to see whether the person would be waling to be interviewed. The secretary tried to contact eight people who had withdrawn from the program in the last year (1989), but found that telephone numbers were not in service or the people had moved, so there were no interviewees from this program.

The results from the various activities will be reported separately.