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From Politicized Adult Education to Market Oriented Adult Higher Education: How Adult Education Practice in One Region is Different from Another
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Wang, Victor C. X.; Mott, Vivian W. – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2010
This study investigated the general instructional modes of adult educators in Southeast China and Northeast China. The study utilized Conti's (1983, 2004) Principles of Adult Learning Scale (PALS) to measure instructional modes of adult educators. Data were collected from 112 randomly selected participants engaged in teaching Chinese adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Higher Education, Geographic Regions
Principles of Adult Learning Scale: Followup and Factor Analysis.
Conti, Gary J. – 1983
In 1978 the Principles of Adult Learning Scale (PALS) was developed to measure the degree of practitioner support of the principles of the collaborative teaching-learning mode for teaching adults. Although the original study with a field test group of 57 produced a valid and reliable 44-item summated rating scale, the stability of the normative…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Attitude Measures
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Franklin, Joan E.; Freeland, D. Kim – 1989
A descriptive study using survey research techniques investigated the degree to which managerial philosophy was related to training and development professionals' acceptance and practice of those adult learning principles that support the collaborative teaching-learning mode. Data were collected from a random sample of 400 members of the American…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Andragogy
The Collaborative Teaching-Learning Mode: Health Education Professors and Adult Learning Principles.
Freeland, D. Kim; Franklin, Joan E. – 1989
A descriptive study using survey research techniques investigated the degree to which health education professors adhere to and practice the principles of adult education. The instrument used to measure acceptance of the adult education mode (collaborative style) was the Principles of Adult Learning Scale (PALS), a 44-item summative scale based on…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Andragogy, College Faculty
A Comparison of Correctional Adult Educators and Formal Adult Educators in Terms of Their Expressed Beliefs in the Collaborative Teaching Mode. Theory and Methods of Adult Education.
Sua, Dangbe Wuo – 1989
A study compared correctional adult educators and formal adult educators in terms of their expressed beliefs in the collaborative teaching mode as measured by the Principles of Adult Learning Scale. The sample consisted of 8 correctional adult educators from the Lake Correctional Institution and 10 adult education teachers from the Manatee Area…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Comparative Analysis, Correctional Education
Analysis of Scores on Principles of Adult Learning Scale for Part-Time Faculty and Recommendations for Staff Development Activities.
Conti, Gary J. – 1983
A study assessed the degree to which teachers in the Hidalgo-Starr Adult Education Coop in Texas support and practice the principles in the literature on adult education. During the project, 94 part-time teachers from the Hidalgo-Starr Adult Education Coop completed the Principles of Adult Learning Scale (PALS). (The PALS is a validated 44-item…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Classroom Techniques
A Quantitative Examination of Philosophical Predilections of Adult Education Graduate Students.
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DeCoux, Valerie; And Others – 1992
To examine the relationship among the Principles of Adult Learning Scale (PALS), Educational Orientation Questionnaire (EOQ), and Philosophy of Adult Education Inventory (PAEI), the three instruments were administered to 111 graduate adult education students. The instruments had similar purposes: PAEI measured philosophical orientation relative to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Educational Philosophy