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Martin, Laura; Bohecker, Lynn – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
The objective of this study was to examine differences across developmental groups of community college students to compare anxiety, depression, positive coping, and negative coping with particular focus on emerging adults (ages 18-28) experiencing quarter-life crises. A total of 807 students participated in this study and were divided into three…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Community College Students, Well Being, Self Concept
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Finkel, Ed – Community College Journal, 2022
Real differences do exist among the generations in terms of attitudes, behaviors, expectations and motivations that have an impact at work and in the classroom, in spheres of activity like building teams, dealing with change, motivating and managing, and teaching. But community college leaders and other administrators and faculty can leverage…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Leaders, Older Adults
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Okur, Elif; Akbal, Yagmur; Yagci Sentürk, Aysun; Dastan, Buket; Kuralay, Çigdem – Educational Gerontology, 2023
Prospective technicians for elderly care are indispensable elements that should be included in the relevant system to meet the ever-increasing care needs of the aging world population and increase the quality of care. This research was conducted to evaluate the attitudes of students in the elderly care program at the associate degree toward the…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Correlation, Associate Degrees, Student Attitudes
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Chang, Chi-Cheng; Yang, Szu-Ting – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2023
There has been a little research on emotion, cognitive load, or learning performance for digital game-based learning (DGBL). However, there is still a dearth of research on investigating the interactive effects of scaffolding DGBL and cognitive style on the above three outcomes. Participants were 97 middle-aged and elder adults from a community…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, Emotional Response, Cognitive Processes
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Pierce, Dennis – Community College Journal, 2018
Across the nation, community colleges are serving an increasing number of adults who are trying to learn new skills or return to the workforce. Some of these students offer particular challenges, such as newly released prisoners, older adults and veterans transitioning to civilian life. While each of these nontraditional populations has its own…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Adult Learning, Nontraditional Students, Correctional Institutions
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Daugherty, Lindsay; Bahr, Peter Riley; Nguyen, Peter; May-Trifiletti, Jennifer; Columbus, Rooney; Kushner, Jonah – RAND Corporation, 2023
Federal, state, and local initiatives have encouraged education and training providers to build stackable credentials, a series of postsecondary credentials that can be earned over time and that build on each other to prepare individuals for different needs for knowledge and skills throughout a career. By offering flexible pathways that allow…
Descriptors: Credentials, Career Development, Low Income Groups, Barriers
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Dikhtyar, Oksana; Cummins, Phyllis Ann; McGrew, Kathryn; Bahr, Peter Riley – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
To remain competitive in the labor market, many middle-aged and older adults need to upgrade existing or learn new skills through occupational training and education. Furthermore, as compared with the past, employers now are more willing to hire older workers after completing a credential due to a low unemployment rate. Moreover, employers often…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Strategies, Outcomes of Education, Labor Market
Dikhtyar, Oksana; Cummins, Phyllis Ann; McGrew, Kathryn; Bahr, Peter Riley – Grantee Submission, 2020
To remain competitive in the labor market, many middle-aged and older adults need to upgrade existing or learn new skills through occupational training and education. Furthermore, as compared with the past, employers now are more willing to hire older workers after completing a credential due to a low unemployment rate. Moreover, employers often…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Strategies, Outcomes of Education, Labor Market
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Boscart, Veronique M.; McCleary, Lynn; Stolee, Paul; Taucar, Linda Sheiban; Wilhelm, Jessica; Johnson, Keia; d'Avernas, Josie; Brown, Paul; Raasok, Marlene – Educational Gerontology, 2020
Nursing Assistants (NAs) are the largest workforce in nursing homes, but often lack adequate preparation for their role. The Living Classroom (LC) is an integrated learning approach, whereby a NA program is delivered in a nursing home (NH) in collaboration with a community college. This paper describes the implementation and evaluation of the LC.…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Nursing Homes, Job Skills, Community Colleges
Dray, Patricia L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
With the projected growth of the older adult population, an anticipated increase can be expected in the number of third-age learners (60-80 years-of-age) returning to college due to life transitions, pursuit of encore careers, or for the purposes of generativity, and self-actualization. In a society that values youth, and whose institutions…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Rural Areas, Older Adults, Nontraditional Students
Zoromski, Lorraine M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study looked for associations between measures of emotional intelligence in an intensive clinical experience for nursing students in their final semester of an associate's degree program. The theory of emotional labor was used to make connections between nursing clinical experience and emotional intelligence. Twenty nursing students from a…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Clinical Experience, Nursing Education, Correlation
Cummins, Phyllis A.; Brown, J. Scott; Bahr, Peter Riley; Mehri, Nader – Grantee Submission, 2018
Recent years have seen growing recognition of the importance of a college-educated workforce to meet the needs of employers and ensure economic growth. Lifelong learning, including completing a postsecondary credential, increasingly is necessary to improve employment outcomes among workers, both old and young, who face rising demands for new and…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Older Adults, Adults, Enrollment Trends
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Mohammadi, Arefeh; Grosskopf, Kevin; Killingsworth, John – Education Sciences, 2020
Workforce pipelines are essential to sustain a productive workforce in an increasingly competitive, high-tech environment. Advanced automation, sensors, materials and data analytics will increase the need for highly skilled workers in the manufacturing (and manufactured construction) sector. Attracting and developing the next-generation workforce…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Disproportionate Representation, Engineering Education, Technology Education
Raju, Shiny Sara – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The study aimed to investigate the relationship between mathematics anxiety and academic performance among developmental mathematics students attending a Northeastern community college. In particular, the study examined the relationship between mathematics anxiety, according to gender and age. The purpose of mixed method case study was two fold:…
Descriptors: Correlation, Mathematics Anxiety, Academic Achievement, Remedial Instruction
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Underwood, William B.; Hernandez-Gantes, Victor M. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
The purpose of this study was to determine whether student outcomes are a function of participation in different modes of delivery and student age in an Opticianry program at the community college level. The three instructional delivery methods were traditional face-to-face instruction, online delivery, and a hybrid format where students take…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Allied Health Personnel, Community Colleges, Ophthalmology
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