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Sabga, Natalya I. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examines if a relationship exists among three rich research streams, specifically the behavioral science of motivation, adult learning and leadership. What motivates adult professionals to continue learning and how is that connected to their style and efficacy as leaders? An extension of literature to connect Andragogy,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Learning Motivation, Adult Learning, Leadership
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Neroni, Joyce; Meijs, Celeste; Leontjevas, Ruslan; Kirschner, Paul A.; de Groot, Renate H. M. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
Research has shown the importance of goal orientation in predicting academic performance for children, adolescents, and college students in traditional educational settings. Studies on this relationship within adult distance education, however, are lacking. To fill this gap, the present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement, Distance Education, Adult Education
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Zimmerman, Whitney Alicia – International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education, 2017
Expectancies of success and values were used to predict success in an online undergraduate-level introductory statistics course. Students who identified as primarily face-to-face learners were compared to students who identified as primarily online learners. Expectancy value theory served as a model. Expectancies of success were operationalized as…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods
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Lido, Catherine; Osborne, Michael; Livingston, Mark; Thakuriah, Piyushimita; Sila-Nowicka, Katarzyna – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2016
This research employs novel techniques to examine older learners' journeys, educationally and physically, in order to gain a "three-dimensional" picture of lifelong learning in the modern urban context of Glasgow. The data offers preliminary analyses of an ongoing 1,500 household survey by the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC). A sample of…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning, Urban Areas
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Kang, Haijun; Yang, Yang – American Journal of Distance Education, 2016
This study examines how various life factors and personal attributes affect African American adult learners' use of the three types of learning interaction-learner-content, learner-instructor, and learner-learner. Multivariate multiple regression analyses were used. The aggregate effect of life factors on African American adult learners' use of…
Descriptors: African American Students, Online Courses, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Mellard, Daryl F.; Woods, Kari L.; Md Desa, Z. Deana; Vuyk, M. Alexandra – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2015
This exploratory study identified underlying skill and ability differences among subgroups of adolescent and young adult struggling readers (N = 290) overall and in relation to a fluency-based instructional grouping method. We used principal axis factoring of participants' scores on 18 measures of reading-related skills and abilities identified in…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adolescents, Young Adults, Reading Skills
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Green, Andy; Green, Francis; Pensiero, Nicola – Comparative Education Review, 2015
This article examines cross-country variations in adult skills inequality and asks why skills in Anglophone countries are so unequal. Drawing on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's recent Survey of Adult Skills and other surveys, it investigates the differences across countries and country groups in inequality in both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Comparative Education, Adult Literacy
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Alloway, Tracy Packiam; Gregory, David – International Journal of Educational Research, 2013
Literacy problems are highly prevalent and can persist into adulthood. Yet, the majority of research on the predictive nature of cognitive skills to literacy has primarily focused on development and adolescent populations. The aim of the present study was to extend existing research to investigate the roles of IQ scores and Working Memory…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Short Term Memory, Intelligence Quotient, Adults
Roberts, Larry N. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
With more adults seeking unique and meaningful learning experiences in both recreational and professional arenas, informal learning institutions, such as museums, zoos, and botanical gardens are a natural source. Informal learning opportunities are the business of these institutions; moreover, a goal in education mission statements of many of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Cognitive Style, Informal Education, Museums
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Salsbury, Tom; Crossley, Scott A.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Second Language Research, 2011
This study uses word information scores from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Psycholinguistic Database to analyse word development in the spontaneous speech data of six adult learners of English as a second language (L2) in a one-year longitudinal study. In contrast to broad measures of lexical development, such as word frequency and lexical…
Descriptors: Medical Research, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning, Familiarity
Grafals, Zoraida – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was twofold. First, this study was conducted to compare English communicative competency achievement between two different models of instruction. Adult English language learners (AELLs) participated in either the communicative task-based (CTB) or in a more traditional (MT) language instructional approach. The goal of the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Control Groups
Naughton, Deborah Trupp – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study focused on adult learners' age, race, gender, and whether they graduated from a distant-learning, master in the art of teaching program at an accredited college during the three academic semesters that comprised the 2007-2008 school year. The dependent variable used in this study consisted of whether adult learners graduated from a…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Masters Programs, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Lees, Teresa Dotson – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Growth in distance education programs has required academic institutions to seek and train additional adjunct faculty. Training program content and delivery methods vary among institutions: however, there is an absence of research on whether incorporating learning strategies that consider assumptions about an adult learner increases satisfaction…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Distance Education, Online Courses, Program Content
Siu, Fiona Kwai Peng – Online Submission, 2008
This study sets out to examine the pragmatic competence of Cantonese adult learners of English possessing different levels of proficiency when performing the speech act of requesting for a formal purpose in writing. Pragmatic judgment--one of the two aspects of pragmatic competence--was examined by studying the most proficient group (i.e., native…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Program Effectiveness
Warell, Suzanne Scaffidi – ProQuest LLC, 2009
While research on online MBA courses is growing rapidly, teaching specific skills using online delivery formats is a relatively new stream of research in graduate business education. In this study, adult learning methods such as experiential activities, discussion, teamwork, and action learning were used in a seven-week online MBA course to…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Graduate Students, Online Courses, Pretests Posttests
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