The article (based on the 1972-73 Adult Education in Finland Survey) is concerned with the process model representing individual activation to study seen against the background of conceptions associated with participation in adult training. The model describes and defines the dependency between social status and participation in this activity.…

Researchers interviewed 20 Anglo and Chicano women who had returned to college after an absence related to their status as women. A summary of how this return to school has affected their lives and ideology is presented. For availability information, see SO 504 073. (Author/RM)

Descriptions of the form and content of the courses which cover economics, law, social insurance, and political science indicate that the program is being formulated and carried out by a joint effort of teachers and participants and is aimed toward better preparing students as trade unionists and meeting their needs. (JB)

Presented before the Section on Mental Health, American College Health Association, Forty-sixth Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 3, 1968.

The college tutor's job is often one of clarifying and reinterpreting material already presented. It is important to highlight the point that the tutor is not teaching--teaching has already taken place. Rather, the tutor is addressing a singular need and is clarifying and rephrasing for the student, which is a talent separate and distinct from…

An investigation of events that cause adults to enroll in traditional college or university degree programs studied the general demographic characteristics of adult students, events that trigger adults to enter or reenter a bachelor's degree program, and the relationship between barriers to education and triggering events. In phase 1, 20 students…

The individual writing conference is one of the key settings in which adults are taught to write. Success in the conference can be connected both to its structure (who can talk when and how much, and what types of talk are sequenced in what ways) and to the content within that structure (what topics are discussed, the amount of collaboration…

The purpose of this paper is to consider how two distinct research methodologies differently structure for study the inputs, transactions, and outcomes of adult literacy programs. It is suggested that the appropriateness of a methodology for the study of adult literacy programs be determined by assessing the extent to which the methodology speaks…

The two purposes of this study were to: (1) determine whether there had been an increase in the enrollment of returning women students (twenty-five years of age or older) between the fall of 1975 and the fall of 1976 at the Quad-Cities Campus, Black Hawk College. A second problem was to compare the mean grade point average achieved by these…

THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BILINGUAL MATERIALS RELATED TO THE SPANISH-AMERICAN CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE UNITED STATES, SUITABLE FOR ELEMENTARY AND OLDER STUDENTS. ALSO INCLUDED IS A DIRECTORY OF PUBLISHERS OF THESE MATERIALS AND A LIST OF CRITERIA APPLIED TO THE SELECTION OF THESE MATERIALS. (FS)

THE DATA FROM PREVIOUS STUDIES WERE USED TO DETERMINE IF THERE WERE DIFFERENTIAL NONINTELLECTUAL (PERSONALITY) CHANGES IN YOUNG ADULTS WHO DIFFERED MARKEDLY IN MEASURED ACADEMIC APTITUDE. THREE OF THE FORMER STUDIES WERE FOR A 2-YEAR TEST AND RETEST TIME PERIOD, AND TWO WERE FOR A 4-YEAR TEST AND RETEST TIME PERIOD. COMPARISONS OF NONINTELLECTUAL…

Mercy College in New York has devised a program that seeks to meet the special needs of returning adult students. To ease the restraints on the adult student's time and travel needs, the college holds classes in branches and extension centers throughout the urban area. It also offers eight-week courses that carry the same contact time requirements…