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Direct linkRoessger, Kevin M. – Adult Learning, 2020
Practitioners often struggle to assess reflective learning in the workplace because of difficulties conceptualizing reflection and its effects in the workplace. This article addresses this problem by offering a pragmatic approach to assessment that asks practitioners to specify why they are using reflection, what they are hoping to gain from it,…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Evaluation Methods, Reflection, Adult Education
Stevenson, Carolyn N., Ed. – IGI Global, 2021
Institutions of higher learning are providing access to free and low-cost open resources to support students with prior college-level learning during every step of their educational journey. This unconventional approach to education removes traditional barriers to college credit by placing learners in an open environment, which encourages…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Open Educational Resources, Prior Learning
Download full textFlorida Department of Education, 2018
This technical assistance paper provides policy and guidance to individuals with test administration responsibilities in adult education programs. Rule 6A-6.014, Florida Administrative Code (F.A.C.), titled, General Requirements for Adult General Education Programs, requires all adult education programs to report all student measurable educational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, State Policy, Educational Assessment, Program Evaluation
Culp, Marguerite McGann, Ed.; Dungy, Gwendolyn Jordan, Ed. – NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, 2014
More than a third of all undergraduate students are 25 or older, and their presence on college and university campuses is growing. However, institutions of higher learning are struggling to meet the needs of, and improve persistence and completion rates for, this significant student population. "Increasing Adult Learner Persistence and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Nontraditional Students, Undergraduate Students
Dougherty, B. Christopher – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2009
The Research to Practice (RTP) column in "The Journal of Continuing Higher Education" has recently focused on evaluation methods that continuing education (CE) units can utilize, reports on surveys of CE practitioners, and recommendations for research on dynamics that impact CE programs and the students enrolling in them. In this article, the…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Evaluation Methods, Continuing Education Units, Transfer Policy
Prins, Esther; Toso, Blaire Willson – American Educational Research Journal, 2008
The Parent Education Profile (PEP) is an instrument used by family literacy programs to rate parents' support for children's literacy development. This article uses Critical Discourse Analysis to examine how the PEP constructs the ideal parent, the text's underlying assumptions about parenting and education, and its ideological effects. The…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Parent Participation, Parent Education, Child Rearing
Hearne, Lucy – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2007
Currently, in the field of guidance, relevant stakeholders including guidance practitioners, educators and policy makers, have identified progression for adults in education and employment as one of the key outcomes of educational guidance. Lifelong guidance is now inextricably linked with lifelong learning as a mechanism to enhance individual…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Educational Counseling, Guidance, Adult Learning
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2006
The purpose of this guide is to help experienced professional developers and others organize and conduct professional development that trains facilitators of National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) study circles. Promoters of the study circle facilitators training should be experienced trainers. This guide includes…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Professional Development, Literacy Education, Evaluation Methods
Li, Jiang – Assessing Writing, 2006
The present study investigated the influence of word processing on the writing of students of English as a second language (ESL) and on writing assessment as well. Twenty-one adult Mandarin-Chinese speakers with advanced English proficiency living in Toronto participated in the study. Each participant wrote two comparable writing tasks under…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Protocol Analysis, Writing Tests, Evaluation Methods
