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Mellard, Daryl F.; Fall, Emily; Woods, Kari L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
Adult literacy interventions often rely on models of reading validated with children or adult populations with a broad range of reading abilities. Such models do not fully satisfy the need for intervention research and development for adults with low literacy. Thus, the authors hypothesized that a model representing the relationship between…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Adult Basic Education, Path Analysis, Adult Literacy
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Kammeyer-Mueller, John D.; Judge, Timothy A. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
Over the past 25 years, numerous researchers have studied the effects of mentoring on work outcomes. However, several reviewers have noted that many of the observed relationships between mentoring and its outcomes are potentially spurious. To summarize this widely dispersed literature, a quantitative research synthesis was conducted focused on…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Mentors, Job Satisfaction, Statistical Analysis
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Ponton, Michael K; Derrick, M. Gail; Carr, Paul B. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2005
The purpose of this study was to investigate the tenability of a proposed path-analytic model relating resourcefulness and persistence in the context of adult autonomous learning. Data collected from a nonprobability sample of 492 American adults using valid and reliable measures for resourcefulness and persistence were analyzed. Results suggest…
Descriptors: Persistence, Lifelong Learning, Independent Study, Personal Autonomy