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Yamashita, Takashi; Smith, Thomas J.; Cummins, Phyllis A. – Adult Literacy Education, 2023
Adult literacy skills are critical assets of individuals as well as societies in terms of economic (e.g., human capital) and social well-being. Thus, it is important to monitor the long-term trends and sources of skill gain/loss. Yet, temporal sources of adult literacy skill variation are understudied. The current study analyzed three comparable,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Human Capital, Surveys, Adults
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2020
KC Scholars is a 501(c)(3) organization working to increase postsecondary education attainment in the greater Kansas City metropolitan region. Its Adult Learner program covers adult residents in the Kansas City region with some college but no degree, and adults with associate degrees who want to earn a bachelor's degree. This brief report…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Adult Education, Adult Students, Educational Attainment
Martha Kate Hall – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Within the past ten to fifteen years, there has been a trend among churches to downsize staff and eliminate the role of "Minister of Education." With these changes in staff structure, a need has emerged for assistance in evaluating adult educational programming within the church. For this project, a process was developed called the Adult…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Religious Education, Church Programs, Christianity
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Sabit Mentese; Attila Bulut – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2024
The aim of this article is to examine the reasons for participation in courses that are offered by public education centers within the scope of lifelong learning, and the level of satisfaction of trainees, focusing on Hozat Public Education Center. Since the study aims at determining the reasons why trainees take part in the courses as well as…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Public Education, Foreign Countries, Student Participation
Colyn Ritter; Alli Aldis; John Kristof; Paul DiPerna – EdChoice, 2024
This is the 12th edition of EdChoice's Schooling in America survey. The purpose of this annual survey is to gauge public opinion on a range of issues in K-12 education, including school choice policies and parents' schooling experiences. From April 9 to April 30, 2024, we surveyed 2,319 current school parents and 1,502 members of the general…
Descriptors: Public Opinion, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Policy, Parent Attitudes
Sophie Hall; Emily Jones; Stephen Evans – Learning and Work Institute, 2023
For 27 years, the Adult Participation in Learning Survey has provided a unique insight into adult learning across the UK. It adopts a deliberately broad definition of learning, reflecting the fact that learning is about much more than formal courses and qualifications. The 2023 survey shows almost one in two adults took part in learning in the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Participation, National Surveys, Foreign Countries
Aaron McClure – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Adult students constitute a large and increasing proportion of community college enrollment across the United States. For personal, economic, and sociological reasons, the success of these students is vital to the students themselves, the institutions they attend, and society as a whole. The purpose of this dissertation was to examine results from…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Success, Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average
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Livingstone, D. W. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2018
The basic argument of this paper is that, in the wake of austerity measures against public education accumulating since the early 1980s, professional teachers at all levels may have been losing control of their jobs and faced decreasing opportunities for continuing their own learning. Empirical evidence is drawn mainly from a unique time series of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Professional Autonomy, Continuing Education
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Cronen, Stephanie; Diffenderffer, Anne; Medway, Rebecca – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2023
This compendium presents comprehensive information from the surveys for the full report "Linking Adult Education to Workforce Development in 2018-19: Early Implementation of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act at the Local Level. Evaluation Report. NCEE 2023-001r" (ED626771), and serves as a supplement, which provides in-depth…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Adult Education, Labor Force Development, Labor Legislation
Patrick W. Bower – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Safety practices impact production. The teaching of safety practices is impacted by the training of educators, the attitude of superiors, the perception of the importance of safety, and acquired training in adult learning methods. This study examined administrators' and instructors' current proficiency and dedication to safety training and adult…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Safety Education, Occupational Safety and Health, Trade and Industrial Education
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Tout, Dave – International Review of Education, 2020
Historically, numeracy has tended to be forgotten and overlooked in adult education, especially compared to literacy. Yet evidence exists to show that numeracy should be made a priority, and that building the foundational numeracy skills of young people and adults is vital for their well-being in work and life in the 21st century. In the past…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Numeracy, Adult Education, Mathematics Skills
OECD Publishing, 2019
Continuous professional development (CPD) is crucial for teacher's professionalism, and affects teaching practices in the classroom. In addition, teachers' self-efficacy and job satisfaction are higher when professional development has a positive impact on their work. Lifting barriers to participation in professional development by providing…
Descriptors: Teaching Skills, Professional Continuing Education, Faculty Development, Skill Development
Kevin Hinckley – Online Submission, 2024
Use of the term Background knowledge, in conjunction with Reading Comprehension, has become convoluted and vague over the past several decades of research. Showing the abundance of uses of the term in multiple domains and disciplines has relegated it to being an automatic inclusion in key notes and conclusions of research on the topic of improving…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension, Educational Improvement, Reading Ability
Ruffalo Noel Levitz, 2022
For more than 25 years, thousands of colleges and universities have used the Ruffalo Noel Levitz (RNL) Satisfaction-Priorities Surveys to assess their students, strengthen the student experience, increase student success and completion, and prioritize campus planning initiatives. The surveys are valued so highly because they reveal where…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes, Student Satisfaction
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Hodgson, Erin; Dean, Ashley; Wang, Zhenzhong – Journal of Extension, 2020
We wanted to understand whether short-term learning could occur during Extension presentations and used an immediate feedback tool to find out. Applying the immediate feedback tool, we asked multiple-choice questions prior to delivering a presentation and repeated them at the end to assess how well the information was delivered to and received by…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Program Evaluation, Short Term Memory, Delivery Systems
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