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Direct linkBahr, Peter Riley; Boeck, Claire A.; Cummins, Phyllis A. – Research in Higher Education, 2022
Students 25 years of age and older comprise one-third of the population in public two-year institutions, and these students face significant disadvantages in first-year retention and eventual graduation. Successfully passing college math and college English are important steps for adult students in building momentum toward a degree. Classroom…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Outcomes of Education
Sheila D. Bennett – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examined how adult learners who took developmental mathematics in a community college and passed the courses, viewed their self-efficacy and the roles they felt self-efficacy had on their successful completion of mathematics. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 adult learners in two U.S. community colleges.…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Community College Students, Nontraditional Students, Success
Melissa Riley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the adult students' perceptions of Game-Based Learning's mitigation of math anxiety in a STEM math course at a mid-sized university in Southeast Texas. The participants in this study included 11 students who identified as adult learners with math anxiety taught by the researcher in a STEM…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Game Based Learning, Mathematics Anxiety, Adult Students
