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Peer reviewedFurst, Edward J. – Adult Education Quarterly, 1986
This article speculates on an underlying order obscured by the details of the Boshier-Collins cluster analysis and the mapping of Houle's types onto it. A table illustrates an interpretation of cluster analysis on Boshier's Education Participation Scale. (CT)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Classification, Cluster Analysis, Goal Orientation
Peer reviewedBoshier, Rogier; Collins, John B. – Adult Education Quarterly, 1985
In this study, Education Participation Scale data from 13,442 learners in Africa, Asia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States were combined and subjected to a cluster analysis designed to examine the extent to which Houle's typology fitted the phenomenological reality that exists within adult education participants. Results are described.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Classification
Boshier, Roger – Adult Education, 1976
The methodology employed in fourteen motivational orientation studies is reviewed. All studies used either the Education Participation Scale, the Continuing Learning Orientation Index, or the Reasons for Educational Participation Scale. Issues discussed concern factor scoring, factor analysis, rotation, scaling, reliability, and the extent to…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Classification, Educational Research, Evaluation
