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Direct linkRemedios, Richard; Richardson, John T. E. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Background: There is evidence that learners may adopt different kinds of achievement goals: mastery approach, mastery avoidance, performance approach, and performance avoidance. In higher education, this evidence has mainly come from young people who have recently gone straight from secondary education to higher education. However, higher…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Student Educational Objectives, Achievement Need
Phillips, Charlotte A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects the learning process for adult learners, resulting in a higher dropout rate than for students who have not experienced similar stress (Kerka, 2002; Smyth, Hockemeyer, Heron, Wonderlich, & Pennebaker, 2008). The purpose of the current qualitative phenomenological study was to identify, explore, and…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Dropout Rate, Lifelong Learning
