Examines the growing number of adults pursuing lifelong learning within and outside of educational settings. Looks at the reasons adults are returning to postsecondary education, adults' learning traits, and the skills teachers should cultivate to deal effectively with adults in a learning situation. (DMM)

Discusses some of the theoretical points involved in teaching study skills to mature students. Describes one approach used with mixed ability part-time students. (JOW)

Provides a model for diagnosing and helping adult students who are having trouble reading in college. (HOD)

The validity and usefulness of learning disabilities diagnoses have not been demonstrated. Identifying adult basic education students as learning disabled is not only unjustified but serves to confound understanding and remediation of their problems. (Author/JOW)

A study into the differences in enrollment motivation of undergraduates is presented. Traditional age students are seen as more responsive to external demands and establishing social relationships. Adult students are more interested in learning for its own sake. (Author/MLW)

Examining selected literature on counseling the adult learner, this article discusses the need for counseling adult learners, meeting the adult learner's needs, the life span developmental perspective, new forms of counseling services, and new approaches and techniques for counseling adults. (Author/LRA)

Discusses an alternative adult learning theory--the "lived experience." This theory states that learning needs to develop out of the current experience of the learner and builds from it. The learner brings into learning the totality of his being. (CT)

Studied the performance of the U.S. Navy trainees on three computer-based lessons under programed control in order to determine whether variations in the sequence of instructional presentation improved learning. Sixteen references are cited. (FM)

Contains recommendations for teaching English to adult education students in higher education. Argues that the advent of increased numbers of adult learners demands a readjustment of attitudes and strategies in teaching English, including a recognition of the pragmatic, consumer-oriented, and highly motivated nature of adult students. (DF)

Activities of the Adult Student Personnel Association emphasized life planning and counseling services for adult learners. (SK)

A British woman recounts her difficulties in developing the ability to understand humorous French while living in France. (AM)

Designed for adults who have never learned to sing, this four-month program teaches pitch control and singing in tune. Exercises focus on self awareness, breathing, pitch-matching, and ear training. (SJL)

Students who have internalized negative messages about their intelligence and ability must reexamine their personal meaning perspectives before they can engage in critical reflection. A multiple intelligences framework provides a structure for this reassessment. (SK)

Effective workshops must pay attention to power relationships that do not disappear in the workshop setting. The myth of the generic teacher and learner and the phenomena of gender, race, ethnicity, and class must be accounted for. (SK)

The hypothesis that the greater the proportion of adults in class the higher the aggregate average class performance was tested with 619 community college students and 2,175 university students. The hypothesis was supported by the community college sample as well as the university sample with the exception of university math classes. (SK)