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Urban, Kamila; Jirsáková, Jitka – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
In contrast to traditional students, post-traditional students follow a broken path through the education system. Therefore, they are older when studying and often have jobs and families. The aim of the present study was to investigate motivation and personality character traits in 67 adult learners (part-time students) and 84 traditional students…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Personality Traits, Foreign Countries, Barriers
Brown, Catherine; Whitted, Chandler – Institute for College Access & Success, 2022
TICAS, in partnership with MDRC and LEO, has worked for more than a year and a half with a community of seven evidence-based college completion programs. These programs, which span the country geographically, all employ a similar model that uses counselors, coaches, or case managers to connect students with a range of support -- personal,…
Descriptors: College Programs, Success, Academic Achievement, COVID-19
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Dunn, Merrily; Kniess, Dena R. – New Directions for Student Services, 2019
In this chapter, the authors examine considerations necessary for seeking a terminal degree. Information on program types, pros/cons of full-time and part-time enrollment, and funding opportunities are explored.
Descriptors: Academic Degrees, Full Time Students, Part Time Students, Enrollment
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Müslüm Atas; Helmut Lindner; Thomas Strametz; Fatima Jammoul; Johannes Feiner; Antonius Metry Saad – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2024
With the rapid growth of digital education, e-learning has become essential for offering accessible and flexible learning opportunities. This paper investigates strategies to achieve long-term learning outcomes and reduce study time in e-learning. It explores various techniques, including self-testing, spaced repetition, and the serial position…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Time on Task, Memory, Learning Strategies
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Collom, Gresham D. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
In this study I deployed quasi-experimental methods to explore enrollment responses to a unique statewide college promise program for adult students attending college within the two-year public postsecondary education sector in Tennessee. State policymakers implemented Tennessee Reconnect in 2018 to encourage adult students without a college…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Enrollment, Grants, Two Year Colleges
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Nerlino, Erin – Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the benefits and challenges of simultaneously participating part-time in a doctoral program and teaching full-time in the K-12 classroom. Design/methodology/approach: In this study, the author used autoethnography to examine the benefits and challenges she faced as a part-time doctoral student and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Part Time Students, English Teachers, Barriers
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Oti, Akponanabofa Henry; Farrell, Peter; Berrais, Abbes; McMahon, Paul; Boulbibane, Mostapha; Paschalis, Spyridon; Osman, Yassin; AL-Faraj, Furat; Duncan, Malcolm – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2022
Purpose: In line with business goals of customer satisfaction, higher education institutions of learning consider excellent student experience a priority. Teaching and learning are important aspects of satisfaction that are monitored annually by universities using tools such as the National Student Survey (NSS). The NSS results are useful for…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Engineering Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Student Projects
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Aron, Isa; Hassenfeld, Ziva R. – Journal of Jewish Education, 2022
The use of technology in part-time Jewish schools during the pandemic and beyond has, with few exceptions, been limited to Zoom, a communications platform that works best for frontal teaching and small group discussion. This study focuses on two Jewish educators whose Technological Pedagogic Content Knowledge enables them to deploy a variety of…
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, Part Time Students, Judaism, Religious Schools
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Gardner, Alexander C.; Maietta, Heather N.; Gardner, Philip D.; Perkins, Niki – Adult Learning, 2022
This study sought to fill a gap in the literature by considering the role of motivation in post-secondary aspirations of adult learners, specifically full versus part-time status, previous level of educational attainment, years of work experience, and the selection of an academic program. The data from this study came from adult students ages 25…
Descriptors: College Students, Adult Students, Student Motivation, Credentials
Complete College America, 2022
Acting on data about both part-time and full-time students is essential to moving the needle on college completion. It also is an equity issue. Part-time student attainment rates severely lag behind those of their full-time counterparts, regardless of sector or timeframe. And part-time students are disproportionately BILPOC (Black, Indigenous,…
Descriptors: Part Time Students, College Students, Academic Achievement, Educational Attainment
Riiheläinen, Jari Matti; Sicurella, Agathina; Baïdak, Nathalie – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2020
This publication focuses on the duration of compulsory education/training in Europe. It highlights the starting and leaving ages and distinguishes the notions of full-time and part-time compulsory education/training. The information is available for 43 European education systems covering 38 countries participating in the EU's Erasmus+ programme.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, School Entrance Age, Elementary Secondary Education
Kerri French-Nelson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
As the adult learner population in higher education continues to increase, there has been a renewed focus on how to best serve this student population in recent years. While adult learners are more likely to take online classes and to enroll part-time, engagement and retention efforts have not heavily focused on part-time online adult learners,…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Relationship, Program Effectiveness, Adult Students
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Fiorini, Luke A.; Borg, Anna; Debono, Manwel – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in many tertiary institutions switching overnight from taught to online lectures without much preparation. Studies suggest that the sudden change has impacted on students' satisfaction with online learning in differing ways. Yet, little is known about how this change impacted specifically on adult…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Part Time Students, Electronic Learning, Distance Education
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Bradley Rentz; Sinton Soalablai; Natasha Saelua; Avalloy McCarthy – Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2024
To strengthen teacher preparation in the Republic of Palau, Public Law 10-32 (enacted in 2018) requires all teachers in the country to hold an associate's degree in education or in the subject area they will teach by the end of 2023. This policy change required many current teachers and those interested in the teaching profession to enroll in an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Certification, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Recruitment
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Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2024
These appendixes provide the technical details, methods, and results for the accompanying infographic. The importance of the study, including guiding research questions, is addressed in appendix A, while the study's research approach and detailed results are provided in appendix B.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Certification, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Recruitment
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