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Kallman, Meghan Elizabeth – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2020
A growing national focus on prison reform has led to a resurgence of interest in carceral education. However, and although college education prison is different from college education in the community, relatively little scholarship has explored why or how these variations exist, what they mean, or how they have changed over time. The present paper…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Adult Students, Community Colleges
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Sandler, Martin E. – Research in Higher Education, 2000
Examined the persistence of students (n=937), 24 years of age or older, studying in two- and four-year degree programs by combining data from a survey questionnaire and institutional records. The structural equation model of Cabrera et al. (1993) was adapted for this older population, with identification of three additional variables: career…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Students, Behavior Patterns, Career Choice
Simon, Charlotte E. – 1995
Graduate schools have been admitting more and more students older than the "traditional" 18- to 24-year-old campus population. These adult learners may come to their programs of study without formal training in library use in general or literature searches in particular. By examining various successful and unsuccessful strategies used by…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis