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Topics: Adult learning, Adult students, Adult education
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White, Kenna
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Topics: Single mothers -- Fiction, Adult students -- Fiction, Lesbians -- Fiction, Adult students,...
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Topics: Piano, Individualized instruction, Adult students, Older men
"Catalogue item #686446."
Topics: Adult education, Learning, Continuing education, Adult students
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Tanabe, Gen S; Tanabe, Kelly Y
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Topics: Adult students, College choice, Universities and colleges
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08/15
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Tanabe, Gen S; Tanabe, Kelly Y; ebrary, Inc
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Topics: Student aid, Scholarships, College costs, Adult students
"Catalogue item #686446."
Topics: Adult education, Learning, Continuing education, Adult students
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Tanabe, Gen S; Tanabe, Kelly Y
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Topics: Student aid, Scholarships, College costs, Adult students
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Rothwell, William J., 1951-
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Topics: Adult students, Adult learning, Volwasseneducatie, Didaktik, Adult education, Erwachsenenbildung
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Collins, Anne, author
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Topics: Scientists -- Fiction, Biographical fiction, English, Adult students, Readers (Adult), Scientists
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Topics: Adult students -- Ireland -- Dublin -- Fiction, College teachers -- Fiction, Adult students,...
In this article, we review the results of a study aimed at comparing the shortcomings and achievements of distance learning in technical higher education institutions, a survey of older students on the experience. The survey was conducted using a 10 question questionnaire via telegram messenger. Rakhimov Kholmurot Abdullayevich "The Importance of Distance Education for Adult Students in Uzbekistan" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development...
Topics: respondent, adult students, advantages and disadvantages of distance learning, e-learning
Learning Disabilities Association (LDA) of Minnesota has gotten many questions over the years about dyslexia. Examples of questions answered in this issue include: (1) When a learner reverses letters, is this dyslexia? (2) How does one teach an adult with dyslexia? (3) Can dyslexia be cured? and (4) Can GED accommodations be received for dyslexia? Dyslexia is one type of a reading difficulty, but not a separate special education categorical disability. It is included under specific learning...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Reading, Reading Processes, Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia, Reading Instruction,...
The aim of this article is to raise awareness in L2 education about the relationship between second-language learners' linguistic choices in the L2 and their identities. The author reviews empirical research and language-learning narratives that show that L2 learners may purposely use nonstandard L2 forms. Using a poststructuralist framework to conceptualize identity, the author argues that these second-language learners use nonstandard language in the L2 in order to create positive identities,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Second Language Learning, Adult Students, Self Concept, Language Usage, Zsabo,...
The report describes revisions made to the Child Raising Opinion Questionnaire for assessing attitudes toward child rearing in the Mountain-Plains student population. Two new scales were developed for the Questionnaire: one measuring resistance to learning about children in particular and resistance to outside influences in the area of child raising generally; the other measuring confidence/adequacy in dealing with children. In addition, new items were included in the section of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Students, Child Rearing, Parent Attitudes, Questionnaires, Rural Population,...
This brief report presents data from the sixth triennial survey of adult education conducted as part of the May 1984 Current Population Survey. The narrative provides information on the characteristics of adult education participants, courses and providers, reasons for taking adult education courses, and adult education course costs. These data tables are included: adult education participation by selected characteristics (age, race/ethnicity, school years completed, annual family income, labor...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Students, Participant Characteristics, Statistics, Student...
The adult education (AE) component of the National Household Education Survey (NHES:95) examined the education activities of adults in the United States in 1994-95. Special attention was paid to the types of educational activities in which adults participate and the relationships between adults' participation in AE activities and educational attainment. In the NHES:95, screening interviews were completed with 45,465 households (response rate, 73.3%). Of the 23,969 adults surveyed for the AE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Students, Educational Attainment, Enrollment Trends,...
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Kilroy, Claire, 1973-
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Topics: Adult students -- Ireland -- Dublin -- Fiction, College teachers -- Fiction, Dublin (Ireland) --...
This document is part of a series designed to help adult home economics education supervisors and instructors meet the consumer-homemaking needs of the low-income adult learner. The information contained in this part provides idea starters for developing ways to make more effective instructional presentations. Various methods and techniques applicable to the teaching of home economics to low-income adult learners are presented in chart form. A brief description of each method, guides and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Students, Bibliographies, Disadvantaged, Females, Home Economics Education,...
Fairleigh Dickinson University developed a University Core Curriculum which it initiated in the 1987-1988 academic year (the pilot program was operational in the fall 1986 semester). The University Core is composed of four 3-credit liberal education courses: "Perspectives on the Individual," which deals with works ranging from Plato's "Crito" to Malcolm X's autobiography; "The American Experience: The Quest for Freedom," which explores ideas from de Tocqueville to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Learning, Adult Students, College Students, Core Curriculum, Higher Education,...
This document consists of three year's worth (18 consecutive issues), 1995-1998, of the periodical "Hands-on English." This serial publication is intended for teachers and tutors of adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL). Each issue contains editorials, letters to the editor, teaching and learning activities, teaching tips, instructional tools and techniques, crossword puzzles, and news and notes. The articles and ideas are contributed by experienced teachers and tutors, including...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Students, Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Learning Activities,...
A random sample of all women 25 years of age or older, enrolled for the fall 1966 semester at three mid-western universities, were mailed the Adult Coed Attitude Inventory. The responses (60% plus) were returned on mark sense cards, hand verified, and tabulated on a computer. The inventory gathered information on age, marital status, employment, extracurricular activities, families and family attitudes toward the return of the women to school, school services found to be helpful, academic...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Students, College Students, Females, Questionnaires, Student Attitudes, Student...
The number of students 25 years of age and older enrolled in higher education has been escalating over the past 50 years. What is higher education doing to prepare for this growth? With adults constituting almost half of today's student body, it is important to consider whether the academy is prepared to serve this society of adult learners. The purpose of this paper was to examine the literature on andragogy in higher education to determine if higher education is serving this segment of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Nontraditional Students, Adult Students, Andragogy, Adult...
At the higher education level, some educators saw individualization of the college curriculum as a means for personal development and a method for empowering the students and the faculty. Notions of adult education appeared to reinforce the strong movement to individualize the college curriculum. The development of contract learning pulled together the differing ideologies and concerns of educating adults. New York's Empire State College, an entirely contract-based institution, and other such...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Higher Education, Individualized...
Sixteen educational aims were rank ordered by 188 adult rural disadvantaged family members who were student participants in the Mountain-Plains Program. Results were examined by factor analysis and by the Thurstone (unweighted) scaling method; the factor structure was weak, indicating considerable independence for the individual items. Students ranked a feeling for other people, a continuing desire for knowledge, and emotional stability as their most important aims and a sense of civic...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Students, Disadvantaged, Educational Objectives, Rating Scales, Rural...
In collaborative learning, both facilitators and learners are active participants in the process, a sense of community is created, and knowledge is considered to be located in the community rather than the individual. Its guiding principle is that learning is enhanced when knowledge that is created and transmitted is shaped by the activities and perspectives of the group. In adult learning situations, the instructor becomes the facilitator whose responsibility it is to create a climate to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Students, Cooperation, Educational...
Research has consistently suggested that colleges and universities should review academic programs and support services in order to make modifications to meet the needs of adult learners. However, one could argue that colleges and universities cannot be successful in meeting adult learners' needs without understanding the barriers they experience. This study utilized phenomenology to examine the perceived barriers of adult learners in an accelerated undergraduate degree program in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Students, Undergraduate Students, Barriers, Acceleration (Education), College...
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Turner, Linda
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Topics: Fiction, Fiction - Romance, Romance: Modern, Romance - Suspense, Fiction / Romance / General,...
These guidelines address methods for administering Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System (CASAS) assessments using accommodations for learners with documented disabilities. The suggested accommodations for disability categories include provisions for: (1) Accommodations in test administration procedures; and (2) Use of appropriate CASAS test forms. (Contains 1 table.)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Guidelines, Testing Accommodations, Disabilities, Adult Students, Student Evaluation,...
This report provides an overview of the continuing development and use of the computer-assisted career guidance systems at the Adult Career Counseling Center of Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan during its 10th year of operation (September 1992-June 1993). The report includes a brief history of the development of the center and of computer-assisted guidance programs at the university, followed by the mission statement of the Adult Career Counseling Center. A description of the Adult...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Counseling, Adult Students, Career Counseling, College Students, Counseling...
According to Houle's 1961 typology, adult learners may be classified as being primarily goal-oriented, activity-oriented, or learning-oriented learners. Since 1961, society has moved from an industrial age to a post-technological era of information and service. In view of the extensive social changes that have occurred since 1961, Houle's typology was reviewed to determine whether it still remains valid in today's social context. In 1983, Boshier and Collins used a "tree" approach to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Students, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Predictive...
This brochure lists some steps to help adults in Minnesota who want to further their education and career prospects through college, technical school, or graduate school. Minnesota has several types of postsecondary institutions that offer hundreds of programs. Many of these are geared for adults with courses on weekends and evenings. There are public and private resources to help those who are not sure about the type of education they want. These resources, which are listed, explain various...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Students, Career Choice, Higher Education, Nontraditional Students, Reentry...
The Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) curriculum and teaching method uses art to help students think critically, listen attentively, communicate, and collaborate. VTS has been proven to enhance reading, writing, comprehension, and creative and analytical skills among students of all ages. The origins and procedures of the VTS curriculum are described, and the applicability of the VTS curriculum for adult learners is explored.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Students, Teaching Methods, Curriculum, Thinking Skills, Art Education, Visual...
The Adult College Completion Network--funded by Lumina Foundation and facilitated by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE)--brings together and supports entities working to increase college and certificate completion by adults with prior postsecondary credits but no degree. The network was founded in part on the premise that improving outcomes for such individuals would require robust collaboration among diverse stakeholders: the workforce system, state higher education...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Partnerships in Education, Stakeholders, Graduation, Adults, Adult Students,...
This is the first brief in a series on strategies for Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College Career Training (TAACCCT) grantees and other educators. The Department of Labor's Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College Career Training (TAACCCT) program is providing nearly $2 billion in funds to build the capacity of the nation's community colleges. Grantees are using the funds to expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs that can be completed in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Prior Learning, Acceleration (Education), Credentials, Adult Students, Employment...
Courses, curriculum, and classrooms can be designed to affirm students in their adulthood, empowering them to draw on their experiences, interests, and self-motivation to learn. Starting at the introductory level and continuing through specialty courses and electives, critical thinking, learning contracts, self-directed learning, and sharing experiences and knowledge can be empowering and exciting experience for both student and professor. Examples of these methods are presented for an...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Students, Cognitive Style, College Students, Critical Thinking, Higher...
The main purpose of this paper is to describe the answers given by adults without primary schooling to different ratio-and rate-comparison tasks. The framework and the analysed data are part of an ongoing research, in which the responses of subjects of different ages and schoolings are studied. The behaviour of quasi-illiterate adults could throw some light on the effect of school on proportional reasoning in normal conditions; evidence will be shown regarding the similarities of their...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Mathematical Concepts, Adult Students, Interviews, Illiteracy, Mathematics...
The primary goal of a project was to encourage students in adult basic education, General Educational Development, and English as a second language to express their thoughts and feelings through writing. Its objectives were to collect and publish exemplary student writings from adult education programs throughout the state of Pennsylvania and to empower adult education students by providing a vehicle for the public recognition of student writing. At least one piece was included from each of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Creative Writing, Student Developed Materials,...
While special care is needed to adapt approaches and strategies to the instructional requirements of adult populations, the innovative learning experiences inspired by the NCTM Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics are examples of good pedagogy that integrate nicely into an androgogical learning environment. This paper presents an overview of a study designed to identify and examine key factors that influence Adult Basic Education (ABE) mathematics instruction in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Classroom Environment, Mathematics...
This module, one in a series relating to consumer education, is intended as a teaching guide. Topics covered by the guide are: What Should Consumers Know and Do in Order to Get Their Money's Worth?; What Should Consumers Know and Do about Advertising?; What Should Consumers Know and Do about Product Warranties?; What Should Consumers Know and Do about Product Safety?; What Should Consumers Know and Do about Labeling and Packaging?; What Should Consumers Know and Do about the Safety and Quality...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Students, Consumer Education, Purchasing, Resource Materials, Secondary...
This paper reviews work completed during the second year of a three-year project on postsecondary learning opportunities for adults. Background information includes perspectives on adult learning, issues of scope and definition, and a brief review of Postsecondary Education Commission projects related to project objectives. A review follows of important state and national studies on adult educational activities. Areas discussed include the participation rate; demographic variables that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Educational Policy, Educational...
Existing programs, policies and practices as they affect the older adult student in Ontario universities were investigated. Interview data were collected from adult students about their experiences in the light of the policies described, and a number of obstacles to successful study encountered by these students were identified. A statistical analysis, based on data collected at Lakehead University, compared the academic performance of adult students to that of regular students. In addition,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Adult Students, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Pilot...
This manual provides labor education advisors with basic information on adult learners, specifically members of a union, and barriers to lifelong learning. Definitions of adult learners and lifelong learning are first provided. A background section reports that the number of adults representing the rank and file union membership enrolled in lifelong learning courses and programs falls far behind the average for the general adult population. Barriers to education are listed, and characteristics...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Labor Education, Lifelong...
"Structured flexibility" is a way for educators to create a mutually conducive learning environment for adult self-directedness. Issues to be addressed include a change in instruction for adult educators, teacher empowerment, and a shift from thinking of adult education as adding content or skills to developed persons to adult education as human development. (SK)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Adult Vocational Education, Educational Environment,...
The three-week institute covered five primary areas of instruction: English as a second language, behavioral objectives, individualized instruction-programmed materials, cultural awareness and sensitivity, and curriculum development and adaptation. Participants in the institute were teachers of Adult Basic Education from across the United States. In addition to this general introduction, the report includes a list of institute participants, responsiblities of the professional staff (director,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Students, Institutes (Training...
Adult learners require teaching strategies that reflect their sociological and psychological characteristics. Adults can be defined, according to Babcock, as either traditional or nontraditional learners, with nontraditional students being those attending college after age 22. The needs of these learners vary depending upon their age, with older students being less available, more independent, more motivated, less flexible, more responsible, more learning focused, more experienced, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Andragogy, Educational Needs,...
The traditional sellers' market in higher education has become a buyers' market, with both the nature of the student body and the services offered being changed. Marketing, as a comprehensive tool for planning and delivery of educational services, offers an integrated method for meeting the disparate demands growing from the shift to a longer learning cycle. New baseline data will be needed to supplement and even supplant current research on the traditional college population. To date, no...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Students, Andragogy, Educational Demand, Higher Education,...
This paper focuses on one aspect of the attempt of higher education to meet learning needs of older students--adult residential programs. Adult residential education is a growing interest of American higher education. Since 1950 adult residential programs have increased in number from a handfull to more than one hundred. The response appears to be a transition between prejudice against older students and a future realization that part-time adult students are an important part of the mission of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Students, College Housing, Higher Education, Part Time Students, Residential...
The two papers in this report explore the dimensions of the idea of adulthood as a period of continuing change and learning, and their implications for adult education. In the first paper, Harry Lasker and James Moore review the major works on adult psychological, intellectual, and moral development. They describe the major stage theories posed by researchers and their implications for educators. (For example, some individuals may not be able or willing to respond to directive instruction,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Students, Adults,...
Distance learning is an excellent method of teaching adult learners because they need flexibility to contend with competing priorities. Adult learning is not without problems, however, such as loss of motivation because of lack of face-to-face contact with teachers and peers, potentially prohibitive start-up costs, and lack of faculty support. In addition to these barriers to distance learning, a literature review found that learners involved in distance education are more likely to have...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Distance Education, Learning...
