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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
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
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
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Dennis Klinkhammer; Julia Rüther; Michael Schemmann – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2024
Building on previous work on the civic returns of adult learning, this article examines the association between adult education, personality traits, and demands for civic participation or volunteering. Based on National Education Panel Study data, the study finds openness to be a crucial personality trait for participating in further training, as…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Personality Traits, Citizen Participation, Data
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Jennifer Coto; Marcela Galicia; Chrisanda Sanchez; Jenna Sawafta; Ivette Cejas – American Annals of the Deaf, 2024
The authors investigated parent mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic and its association with parenting behaviors of parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. An electronic survey was distributed to parents (N = 103). The results showed that they were experiencing elevated anxiety, depression, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Health Services, Deafness, Hearing Impairments