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Enrollment at Adult High Schools in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: An Exploration of Motivation, Age, and Gender Using Boshier's EPS A-Form
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Mousa Alfaifi – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2024
Motivation plays a crucial role in adult learners' decisions to enroll in educational programs. This study aimed to evaluate the motivations for adult learners who enrolled at adult high schools in Riyadh as well as the potential gender and age differences for their motivations. The Education Participation Scale (EPS) A-Form was administered to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Students, High Schools, Age Differences
Participation Patterns of ABE Students: Implications for Classroom Strategies.
Bova, Breda M. – Adult Literacy and Basic Education, 1985
Using Boshier's Education Participation Scale, this study analyzed reasons for participation in adult basic education programs. Patterns related to Levinson's life stages were examined. Recommended classroom strategies included small group instruction, mentoring, field experience, and community awareness programs. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Students, Developmental Stages
Reasons for Participation in Adult Education Courses: A Multivariate Analysis of Group Differences
Morstain, Barry R.; Smart, John C. – Adult Education, 1974
The Education Participation Scale was administered to 611 students enrolled in adult education courses at one college in the U. S., and results were compared to results from a similar study in New Zealand. There was some variation in expressed reasons for participation between different sex-age groupings. (Author/AG)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Differences, Classification, Participant Characteristics
Education Participation Scale Factor Structure for Older Adults
Boshier, Roger; Riddell, Gail – Adult Education, 1978
Motivating factors for participation in adult education were analyzed with a short form of the Education Participation Scale, using data from a population of older adults enrolled in adult education programs in Vancouver, British Columbia. It appears that this scale may be useful in planning programs for older adults. (MF)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Adults
Psychometric Properties of the Alternative Form of the Education Participation Scale.
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Boshier, Roger – Adult Education Quarterly, 1991
Predictive validity of Education Participation Scale Alternative form was demonstrated by relating interview data and estimates to actual scores. Responses from 845 North American and Asian adults entered into discriminant function equations successfully classified 60 percent by gender, 25 percent by age, and 65 percent by ethnicity. Soundness of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Concurrent Validity, Construct Validity, Discriminant Analysis
The Houle Typology after Twenty-two Years: A Large-Scale Empirical Test.
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Boshier, 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
Why Adults Participate in Education: Some Implications for Program Development of Research on Motivational Orientations.
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Darkenwald, Gordon G. – 1977
While recent research on why adults participate in continuing education programs does not provide educational planners with any easy prescriptions for programing success, it does suggest some broad directions for more effective program development, particularly in relation to needs assessment, the promotional aspect of marketing, and the design…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Behavioral Science Research