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Nayrie Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Adult learners are returning to school to acquire and enhance workplace essential skills needed to meet changing job market expectations. Adequately preparing adult learners for the workforce necessitates understanding their views and experiences. The problem explored in this study was the lack of research regarding business school stakeholders'…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Job Skills, Adult Learning, Labor Force Development
Primm, Barbara R. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study investigated the relationship between problem-based learning, motivation and engagement (as measured by the Motivational and Attitudinal scale) self-directedness, and academic achievement of technical students enrolled in general studies courses at a Midwestern technical college. intended purpose for the study was to identify if tactile…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Technical Institutes, Two Year College Students, Student Motivation
Miller, Kurtis D. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Higher education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) faces a number of challenges. There are many calls for STEM education to make significant changes moving forward, including calls for competency-based learning and greater integration of the humanities. These efforts require systemic change. Systemic change has significant…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Context), Educational Change, Competency Based Education, Communication Research
Perkinson, Betty J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The view that community college developmental studies educators have about the space in which they teach, any renovated or new spaces they were involved in designing, and the type of space in which they would like to teach is examined. The developmental studies educators are experts in their field, having completed The Kellogg Institute at…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Developmental Studies Programs, College Faculty, Teaching Conditions