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The Role of Learned Helplessness on Academic Baseline Levels in Adult Education Students Enrolling in a High School Equivalency Program
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Kippie Barnwell Hartcraft – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this non-experimental quantitative study was to investigate the relationship between learned helplessness and academic baseline levels among adult students who dropped out of high school and have returned to a high school equivalency program to prepare to take the GED examination. The study controlled for the variables of the age of…
Descriptors: Helplessness, Adult Students, High School Equivalency Programs, Age Differences
Examining Moderating Effects on the Relationship between Correctional Education and Post-Release Outcomes
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Roessger, Kevin M.; Liang, Xinya; Weese, James; Parker, Daniel – Journal of Correctional Education, 2021
Using all Arkansas correctional releases from 2005-2016 of adults who at intake lacked high school diplomas or GEDs, the authors examined how correctional education and its moderating factors affect recidivism (N = 32,174) and post-release employment (N = 40,667). Completion of GED and vocational programs were associated with financially viable…
Descriptors: Adults, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education
Using Modern Statistical Methods to Analyze Demographics of Kansas ABE/GED Students Who Transition to Community or Technical College Programs
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Zacharakis, Jeff; Wang, Haiyan; Patterson, Margaret Becker; Andersen, Lori – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2015
This research analyzed linked high-quality state data from K-12, adult education, and postsecondary state datasets in order to better understand the association between student demographics and successful completion of a postsecondary program. Due to the relatively small sample size compared to the large number of features, we analyzed the data…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, High School Equivalency Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education
Ged® Completers' Perceptions of College Readiness and Social Capital: Linking Adult Literacy to a Greater Quality of Life
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Lott, Donalyn; O'Dell, Jade – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2014
This study examined the efficacy of general education development (GED®) acquisition and GED® completers' perceptions of college readiness and social capital using a quantitative methodology. Also, the study used a descriptive, cross-sectional research design framed by the social capital theoretical perspective. The conceptual framework developed…
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, College Readiness, Social Capital, Adult Literacy
The Level of Persistence in High School Drop-Outs Enrolled in the GED Program at a Rural Community College
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McCaskill-Mitchell, Sonja – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of the study was to identify factors that affect students' persistence in completion of the GED. Exploration of characteristics of participants that do/do not persist and obtain their GED assists the high school dropout, potential GED recipient, GED program staff, and society as a whole. More information was needed in order to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Dropouts, Predictor Variables, High School Equivalency Programs
Dropouts Immediately Pursuing a GED[R] Credential: Their Institutions' Characteristics, Self-Reported Reasons for Dropping out, and Presence of High-Stakes Exit Exams. GED Testing Service Research Studies, 2006-1
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George-Ezzelle, Carol E.; Zhang, Wenmin; Douglas, Karen – GED Testing Service, 2006
The research topics addressed in this study include the following: (1) reasons dropouts who immediately pursued a General Educational Development (GED) did not complete high school; (2) characteristics of the schools those GED examinees last attended; (3) differences in the reasons for not completing school by school characteristics; and (4)…
Descriptors: High School Students, Dropouts, At Risk Students, Exit Examinations