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Bassano, Sharron; Christison, Mary Ann – TESL Talk, 1983
Shares ideas for classroom activities based on use of the students' senses. The activities are especially helpful for use with students with no or minimal literacy skills. (EKN)
Descriptors: Adult Students, English (Second Language), Illiteracy, Instructional Innovation
Download full textHanson, Elizabeth; And Others – 1995
This packet contains a teacher's guide and student guide for a videotape and audiotape that introduce learning styles concepts for adult learners and provide them with tools to begin to recognize their own behavior and to make the most of their personal style strengths. The teacher's guide provides background information on learning styles and the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Audiotape Recordings
Check, John F. – 1984
This study was conducted to determine theoretical models, learning styles, and activities adult learners prefer. From a total of 154 survey forms administered to undergraduate and graduate students in adult studies and in the adult learner course at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 119 questionnaires were analyzed, using a chi square model on…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Andragogy
Murray, Monica D. – 2002
An action research study attempted to identify the learning style prevalent among 7 male and 3 female adult learners in an Adult Basic Education (ABE) program in New York City and the attributes of a classroom environment that promote the retention of adult learners. These four learning style modalities were considered: concrete experience,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Dropouts, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Adam, Felix, Ed.; Aker, George F., Ed. – 1982
This publication, the first in a series on theory, innovation, and practice in andragogy, is a reproduction of two papers first published in 1971 by Coolie Verner and Catherine V. Davison. The first paper in this booklet explores psychological factors in adult learning and instruction, while the second discusses physiological factors. In the five…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning
McKinnon, Norma M. – 1991
At Northern Maine Technical College (NMTC), the mean age of students increased from 19.7 years in 1978 to 28.6 in 1991. In an effort to evaluate NMTC's nursing programs as perceived by traditional students (under 22 years of age) and nontraditional students (22 years of age or older), questionnaires were administered to 59 practical nursing…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Age Differences, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis
Wager, Walter – 1982
This second issue of a series on theory, innovation, and practice in andragogy analyzes some of the instructional variables in adult learning and discusses ways to influence the degree of learning through the application of instructional and behavioral technologies. It unites theory and practice, generating recommendations from the abstract…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning
