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Immigrants' Job Expectations: A Study of What Predicts Immigrants' Job Expectations after Completing Language Training Programmes
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Reichenberg, Monica; Berhanu, Girma – International Journal of Special Education, 2017
The overall aim was to identify predictors of adult immigrant students' job expectations after they have finished the language training program. We studied both socio-demographic predictors (sex,family status, socio-economic status, and level of education) and experience predictors (age at arrival, teacher, and language exposure). To get a more…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Work Attitudes, Expectation, Predictor Variables
A Correlational Study of Self-Directed Learning Readiness and Learning Activity Preference for Continuing Medical Education among Family Physicians
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Barrett, Theresa J. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This quantitative, nonexperimental, correlational study sought to determine whether a relationship exists between family physicians' levels of self-directed learning readiness (SDLR) and their preferences for continuing medical education (CME) activities. The study also sought to determine whether years in clinical practice or size of clinical…
Descriptors: Correlation, Independent Study, Learning Readiness, Learning Activities
A Psychosocial Interaction Study of Adulthood Demographics and Non-Compulsory Education, Learning, Training, and Development Participation Using the National Household Education Survey
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Chillis, Jimmy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This report analyses the NHES: 2005 data to present the state of American education in reference to "adult" participation in education. Psychosocial interaction theory is applied to the social event of attaining adulthood to analyze and report the propensity of American adults to participate in non-compulsory adult education. The review…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demography, Age, Prior Learning
Online PhD Program Delivery Models and Their Relationship to Student Success
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Jorissen, Shari L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Attrition rates in Ph.D. programs are at approximately 50% in traditional Ph.D. programs and 10-20% higher in online Ph.D. programs. Understanding the relationship between student factors, measures of student success (retention, graduation, year to degree), and student satisfaction is important to support and improve retention, graduation rates,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Degrees, Academic Achievement
Examining Career Success of Minority and Women Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs): A LEADS Project
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Russ-Eft, Darlene F.; Dickison, Philip D.; Levine, Roger – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2008
Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) are a critical segment in prehospital medical care. This study examined EMT-paramedic career success focused on minorities and women, as part of the Longitudinal Emergency Medical Technician Attributes and Demographics Study (LEADS). The LEADS data come from a representative sampling of EMTs throughout the…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Females, Job Satisfaction, Emergency Medical Technicians
Moving the Markers: New Perspectives on Adult Literacy Rates in Canada
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Sussman, Susan B. – Movement for Canadian Literacy, 2003
This report describes a project originally intended to identify demographic patterns among adults with low literacy skills in each Canadian province. The project was carried out between March 2000 and June 2001 under the auspices of Movement for Canadian Literacy (MCL). The project was based on the assumption that demographic information about…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Older Adults, Demography, Research Methodology