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Post, Ernie – ProQuest LLC, 2014
One purpose of this study was to add insight to help Small Business Development Center (SBDC) entrepreneurial educators understand why over 40% of their adult learners discontinue their learning program prematurely. In addition, this study explored how the comprehensive Self-Directed Learning (SDL) model might inform our understanding of attrition…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Small Businesses, Adult Learning, Mixed Methods Research
Carlo, Maria S.; Sylvester, Ellen Skilton – 1996
Research studies on how adults learn and develop second-language reading competence were considered in the context of a componential theory of reading. In particular, C. A. Perfetti's Verbal Efficiency Theory (VET) was used as a framework in which to organize and evaluate the studies' contribution to the field of second-language reading. The…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Componential Analysis, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods