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Dunn, Terri Cauley – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this phenomenological research study was to describe how inmate students incarcerated in an Alabama Department of Correctional Services (ADOC) work release facility, and who are enrolled in a prison-based GED program, perceive the role of education in curtailing criminal activity among prisoners who are released back into society.…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Phenomenology, High School Equivalency Programs
Melching, William H.; And Others – 1972
The objective of this research was to determine the feasibility of developing a functionally oriented General Educational Development (GED) program. To obtain information about problems of adaptation common to undereducated men, and to obtain information about knowledges and skills such men may not have, an achievement test/attitude questionnaire…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Achievement Tests, Armed Forces
Frankenburger, Lydia – 1999
This research project was conducted to identify the reasons for the low retention rate for adult students enrolled in the prep level of the General Educational Development (GED) programs offered by the Clinton County (Pennsylvania) Development Center for Adults. All adult students who attended class at least once from July 1998 through January…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Attitudes