Middle-aged undergraduates entering or returning to the University were invited to take a precollege aptitude test battery. Predicting grades in humanities, social science, natural science, and business, as well as cumulative grades and rate of progress, was best accomplished through multiple prediction using background factors in addition to test…

For adults, there is a correlation between the years of formal study of English and English proficiency. Formal instruction in general is more beneficial for second language learning than exposure to the second language in natural situations. The essential contributions of formal instruction are investigated. (Author/ND)

A study compared the characteristics and participation motivations of older adult learners in age-segregated and age-integrated educational programs. The instrument for the research consisted of two parts--a Program Participants Survey to collect social and demographic information and Boshier's Education Participation Scale. Subjects were 482…

To establish a procedure for use in examining characteristics of future participants in adult education, a study focused on one characteristic--the highest level of education completed among participants in adult education activities. The process followed was to obtain reports from the National Center for Education Statitstics (NCES) (an official…

The current data on the incidence and predilections of adult students fall into "good news" and "bad news" categories for educators in the humanities. The good news begins with the sheer numbers of potential adult students. In 1975, about 17 million adults were engaged in continuing education, and this figure has probably increased dramatically…

DESCRIPTIVE ABSTRACTS OF ESPECIALLY USEFUL DOCUMENTS RELATED TO READING RESEARCH AND PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1957 AND 1966 ARE PRESENTED. ARTICLES WHICH REVIEWED RESEARCH, ANALYZED TOPICS IN READING, OR PROVIDED FAIRLY EXTENSIVE LISTS OF REFERENCES ARE INCLUDED. THE PUBLICATION PRESENTS 259 ENTRIES ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY YEAR AND CONTAINS AN AUTHOR…

A course in reading and learning techniques was designed for returning students at the Indiana University/Purdue University campus at Fort Wayne, Indiana. The first part of the course concerns study skills such as listening and notetaking, text reading, test taking, time management, and vocabulary development. An individualized segment of the…

The theme of this convention was counseling the adult student. Jerrold I. Hirsch, the convention chairman, introduced the theme, and presented briefly a report of a six-year study on higher adult education calling for further expansion of existing educational opportunities for adults. Robert Moseley summarized the extent of student personnel…

This handbook provides the practicing educational and career counselor with basic information about a college's policy regarding credit by examination, particularly the College Level Examination Program (CLEP). CLEP is a national program that is readily available to the general public. It is designed to measure knowledge acquired outside the…

This paper offers six strategies for teaching literature to unsophisticated students. Unsophisticated students are defined as adult and other part-time learners, as well as full-time students, who are less academically qualified than students in previous years. Strategy one suggests that teachers directly confront difficult literature and help…

In their deliberations leading to the basic conclusions and recommendations reported in "Financing Postsecondary Education in the United States." Commissioners of the National Commission on the Financing of Postsecondary Education used staff prepared supplementary materials. This report is one of a series of staff reports prepared to make these…

Of 3,393 students on the campuses of Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior Colleges and at George County Occupational Training Center in 1974, 82 percent were full-time, 18 percent were part-time, 68 percent were freshmen (many of whom were vocational students), and 32 percent were sophomores (few of whom were vocational students). Fifty-nine percent of…

This document supplies a detailed rationale for four principal recommendations: (1) that the campus revise, adapt, or develop selected programs in keeping with open-education patterns, thereby making educational opportunities more readily available to significant constituencies not presently being served; (2) that campus departments schedule more…

Because the needs of mature students are so radically different than the 18-22 year-old student, it is essential that student personnel workers respond to these needs by creating specially designed orientation and extra-curricular programs. This document offers an itemization of all factors that must be considered in designing a complete program…

The rationale for conducting programs for the adult women who are seeking an "educational course of action" is based on the discontinuities in life styles experienced by women which make it extremely difficult and frustrating for them to contribute their talents to society. Personal characteristics of the women in a non-credit exploration course…