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An Investigation of the Factors That Motivate Adults to Participate in Adult Basic Education (ABE) Classes at a Southeastern Wisconsin Community College
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Crump-Phillips, Maureen R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study assessed the plausibility of using Ajzen's (1991) theory of planned behavior (TPB) to identify the factors that motivate adults to participate in Adult Basic Education (ABE) classes at a Southeast Wisconsin Community College. The original TPB (Ajzen, 1991) attests that planned behaviors are determined by behavioral intentions which are…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Colleges, Adults, Motivation
Predictors of Low-income, Obese Mothers' Use of Healthful Weight Management Behaviors
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Chang, Mei-Wei; Nitzke, Susan; Brown, Roger; Baumann, Linda – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2011
Objective: To examine the influence of personal and environmental factors on healthful weight management behaviors mediated through self-efficacy among low-income obese mothers. Design: Cross-sectional design. Setting: Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children in Wisconsin. Participants: Two hundred eighty-four obese…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Mothers, Low Income, Self Efficacy
Impacts on Schools and Team Members of Participating in a Wisconsin Secondary Vocational Education Evaluation during 1978-80.
Klitzke, Elizabeth – 1981
A study assessed impacts on 58 schools and 286 On-Site Visitation team members of participating in a Wisconsin Secondary Vocational Education Evaluation during 1978-80. Quantitative data were collected through 402 questionnaires; 116 were sent to Local Vocational Education Coordinators (LVECs), and 286 to On-Site team members. Qualitative data…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Change, Program Evaluation, Questionnaires
Fiscal Accountability in Wisconsin's Public Elementary Schools. "Where Does the Money Go?" Volume 2, No. 1.
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White, Sammis B.; Rue, Richard C. – 1989
An average of 33.5 percent of school district expenditures is spent on classroom teachers' compensation in Wisconsin elementary schools. The range varies from a low of 21.4 percent to a high of 45.9 percent. Financial data were analyzed from the survey responses of 110 of Wisconsin's 431 districts. The reasons for the average proportion spent on…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Finance, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Impacts on Schools and Team Members of Participating in a Wisconsin Secondary Vocational Education Program Evaluation, 1978-80.
Klitzke, Elizabeth – 1981
This study assessed the impacts on 58 schools and 379 on-site visitation team members participating in a Wisconsin Secondary Vocational Education Program Evaluation during three years, 1978-80. To accomplish this, a methodological mix was chosen, so that impacts could be documented quantitatively through questionnaire data, and qualitatively…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Research
Educational Offerings and Areas of Need for Public Instructional Services to American Indian Students in Wisconsin as Reported by Local School District Administrators and Parents of Indian Students: Final Report of the Wisconsin Indian Education Needs Assessment.
Philbrick, Roger B.; And Others – 1980
An Indian education needs assessment conducted in Wisconsin had two components, the first a survey of school district administrators (or their assistants) via a four-part questionnaire, and the second a survey of parents or guardians in 20 Indian communities via questionnaires orally administered by trained personnel. Out of a total of 438…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, American Indians
A Long-Range Follow-up of Post-Secondary Vocational, Technical and Adult Education Graduates. Final Report.
Wisconsin Univ. - Stout, Menomonie. Center for Vocational, Technical and Adult Education. – 1981
A study examined the job-related skills acquired and career opportunities that have arisen for 1966, 1971, and 1976 graduates of postsecondary vocational-technical programs in Wisconsin's Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education (VTAE) system. Fifteen VTAE graduates from each of the years 1966, 1971, and 1976 completed a 26-item survey designed…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Employment Experience, Employment Level