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Direct linkBoeren, Ellen; Holford, John – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2016
To encourage adult participation in education and training, contemporary policy makers typically encourage education and training provision to have a strongly vocational (employment-related) character, while also stressing individuals' responsibility for developing their own learning. Adults' motivation to learn is not, however, purely…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Vocational Education, Multivariate Analysis
Mittal, Surabhi; Mehar, Mamta – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2016
Purpose: The paper analyzes factors that affect the likelihood of adoption of different agriculture-related information sources by farmers. Design/Methodology/Approach: The paper links the theoretical understanding of the existing multiple sources of information that farmers use, with the empirical model to analyze the factors that affect the…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Influences, Adoption (Ideas), Agricultural Occupations, Multivariate Analysis
Kawakatsu, Yoshito; Sugishita, Tomohiko; Oruenjo, Kennedy; Wakhule, Stephen; Kibosia, Kennedy; Were, Eric; Honda, Sumihisa – Health Education Research, 2015
Background: Mother and Child Health handbooks (MCH handbooks) serve as useful health education tools for mothers and sources of information that allow health care professionals to understand patient status. Therefore, it is necessary to clarify the effectiveness of and identify the factors related to possession of an MCH handbook among parents in…
Descriptors: Guides, Access to Information, Ownership, Parent Materials
Kim, YaeBin – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Parenting education needs assessment surveys were collected from a large group of the parents or caregivers of 698 0-5-year-old children in southern Nevada. Survey questions addressed parenting education interests, family characteristics, and preferred delivery methods of parenting education. Cluster analysis was used to empirically determine if…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Child Rearing, Parenting Skills, Parent Surveys
Stanley, Jennifer Tehan; Isaacowitz, Derek M. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
As a group, older adults report positive affective lives. The extent to which there are subgroups of older adults whose moods are less positive, however, is unclear. Our aim in the present study was to identify and characterize different subgroups of adults who exhibit distinct trajectories of mood change across a relatively short time period.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Aging (Individuals), Time Perspective, Multivariate Analysis
White, Patrick – British Educational Research Journal, 2012
This article presents multivariate analyses of the characteristics associated with both participation in adult education and the intention to participate in future learning. It uses questionnaire data from more than 47,000 individuals collected by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) over the course of nine annual surveys…
Descriptors: Prediction, Continuing Education, Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning
Download full textSkinner, Natalie – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2009
This document serves as a support paper to the "Work-Life Issues and Participation in Education and Training" report. This support document contains tables that show: (1) participation in education and training; (2) participation in education and training and work-life interaction; (3) future participation in education or training; (4) perceptions…
Descriptors: Participation, Education Work Relationship, Family Life, Gender Differences
Chen, Ching-Yi; Fischer, Jerome; Biller, Ernie – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was designed to measure non-traditional students' perceptions of role conflicts between work and school and subsequent coping strategies, and to determine factors relevant to both role conflicts and coping. A survey was developed and implemented to investigate the continuing education issues. Results were based on 485…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Coping, Nontraditional Students, Student Attitudes
Salameh, Pascale R.; Barbour, Bernadette – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
In the nursing profession it is necessary for a nurse to engage in continuing education to keep up to date. In Lebanon efforts to establish such continuing education are being made. However, a cross-sectional study conducted on a representative sample of 254 nurses found that 60 per cent attend an insufficient number of continuing education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nurses, Professional Continuing Education, Individual Characteristics
