The Assessment of Prior Learning Program at Humboldt State University, California, is described. The program enables students to gain at least token recognition, through elective units, for prior learning by taking a course and writing a portfolio that is assessed by faculty and awarded up to 10 additional units. The program began by offering…

A pilot study involving 55 Canadian university students demonstrated the value of administering an attitude inventory and a needs assessment instrument to adult students before attempting to teach them basic literacy skills. In addition to designing and piloting the two instruments, the purposes of the study included comparing expressed attitudes…

Major findings and recommendations for postsecondary education in Indiana are presented. Topics discussed include enrollments, postsecondary participation rates, College Board admission test results, educational attainments of the Indiana adult population, characteristics and plans of Indiana high school seniors, characteristics and plans of…

Text, illustrations, and exercises are utilized in a set of five learning modules designed to instruct college faculty and education students in selected instructional development skills, the characteristics of adult learners, and the effects of frequently abused drugs. The first module, "How to Write Structured Response Test Items" by…

Seminar and conference reports and working papers on distance education of adults, which reflect the experiences of many countries, are presented. Contents include the draft report of the 1979 International Seminar on Distance Education held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which was jointly sponsored by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa…

The "waystage" objective for adult modern language learning in the European unit/credit system is described. Waystage is an intermediary objective below "threshold level," the latter stage being the minimum proficiency level likely to be required to function adequately in temporary contacts with foreign language speakers in…

This booklet, part of a course for teaching English to adult Francophones, is designed to assist the student in learning to produce the "h" sound in English and to eliminate the "intrusive h," replacing it with the glottal stop. Sections one and two describe the interlanguage situation for each case, present techniques to guide the student's…

This booklet, part of a course for teaching English to adult Francophones, is designed to assist the student in learning to produce the "th" sound in English. The voiceless and voiced "th" sounds are described, articulation techniques for both sounds are presented, and listening discrimination and production exercises are provided. A special…

The document presents 19 essays which explore the growth of international relations (IR) as a field of intellectual inquiry and evaluate dilemmas currently facing IR. Authors were selected on the basis of involvement with midcareer students while participating in overseas graduate programs of the Schools of International Relations at the…

The 413 members of the North American Association of Summer Sessions were surveyed to determine programming for college summer sessions in the 1980's. Summer session directors were asked about who the students of the 1980's would be, what programs should be developed, where programs should be held, and what time frames for course offerings would…

Differences in self-descriptive patterns of adults who dropped out of high school completion courses and those who completed their courses were examined using the Adjective Check List (ACL) to measure adult personality attributes. Subjects (N=142) were asked to endorse those adjectives which best described themselves and to skip those which did…

Information and course materials for a comparative religion course offered to registered nurses as part of an off-campus bachelor's degree completion program are presented. Some presumptions about the students that affected design of the course are considered. The course provided students the opportunity to study the broad field of comparative…

The purpose of the collection of papers is two-fold: to promote public understanding about adult education in the context of lifelong learning; and to consider what new possible roles this might entail for the university. Papers include: Meeting Contemporary Needs: The Private Sector (J. Williamson-Persh); Meeting Contemporary Needs: The Community…

Changes that have occurred in higher education in the last 20 years are briefly sketched and the present state of financial difficulty being experienced by all the institutions as well as possible solutions are considered. Two major factors driving costs upward for higher education have been inflation and government regulations. Assets of higher…

After introductory material discussing the impact of an increasingly older student population on traditional higher education practices, this report examines the adaptation of college curricula to the special needs of older adult students. The report first examines the level of service to older adults provided by the California community colleges…