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Luke K. Fryer; Alex Shum – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
How do task experiences support proximal and longer-term desires to reengage? Central to this question is the interplay between perceptions of task difficulty and the situational interest. This interplay is increasingly researched but not yet well understood. Micro-analytic, latent studies are important tools for replicating past findings and…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Interests, Mathematics Education, Learning Readiness
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Sheridan Reilly; Lynn Sheridan; Elise van der Jagt – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2025
Pre-university mathematics enabling courses can potentially change adult learners' perceptions and beliefs around mathematics, enhance self-efficacy, personal confidence, motivation, and enable achievements that support future study and career goals. Enabling courses, however, often require highly individualised curricula and approaches that can…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Mathematics Instruction, Adult Learning, Self Esteem
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Clare Lee; John Morgan – Teacher Development, 2025
The adult participants in this study range in age from 20 to 50 years. They describe their remembered experiences of learning mathematics in both primary and secondary education. None of the participants achieved the qualifications in mathematics which would allow them access to higher education. They are now studying mathematics after many years…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Anxiety, Prior Learning, Memory
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Sally Smith; Khristin Fabian; Ella Taylor-Smith; Matthew Barr; Tessa Berg; Andrew Bratton; Mario Kolberg; Jim Paterson; Mark Zarb – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2025
In the UK context of an ageing population, degree apprenticeships represent a new opportunity to study for a degree while working. Apprentices are full-time employees granted time to study for a degree with a significant workplace learning component. The aim of this study was to focus on whether degree apprenticeships are working for adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Apprenticeships