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Direct linkBetül Baldan Babayigit; Ellen Boeren; Sharon Clancy; Zyra Evangelista; John Holford; Queralt Capsada-Munsech – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2025
This paper investigates the methodological discrepancies underlying the measurement of adult learning and education (ALE) participation in the UK by focusing on four major surveys -- APiL, PIAAC, AES, and LFS. Grounded in the Total Survey Error (TSE) framework, we systematically examined the surveys' documentation and compared their definitions,…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, Student Participation, Foreign Countries
Rubenson, Kjell – International Review of Education, 2019
A quick review of national policy documents reveals how lifelong learning has evolved as the key principle for a comprehensive education and learning strategy from cradle to grave. This raises major challenges for how to assess and report the state of lifelong learning in UNESCO Member States. It is in this context that this article critically…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adults
Download full textBorowska-Beszta, Beata; Smieszek, Mateusz – International Journal of Psycho-Educational Sciences, 2018
The article presents the problem of conducting interviews for research and educational purposes with elderly people. It is not the purpose of the article to analyze the process of collecting interviews for clinical purposes in medical sciences. The article refers only to the epistemological issues in social sciences. The importance of proper…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Ethnography, Educational Research, Interviews
Kinkead, Karl J.; Miller, Heather; Hammett, Richard – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2016
Two purposes existed for initiating this qualitative case study involving adults who had completed a college-level business statistics course. The first purpose was to explore adult challenges with stress and anxiety during the course: a phenomenon labeled statistics anxiety in the literature. The second purpose was to gain insight into adult…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Adult Students, Teaching Methods
Mussey, J.; Dawkins, T. – National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2017
This evidence-based practice overview on Cognitive Behavioral Intervention includes the following components: (1) Overview: A quick summary of salient features of the practice, including what it is, who it can be used with, what skills it has been used with, and settings for instruction; (2) Evidence-base: The "CBI Evidence-base" details…
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Behavior Modification, Intervention, Behavior Problems
Salthouse, Timothy A. – Psychological Bulletin, 2011
The commentaries on my article contain a number of points with which I disagree but also several with which I agree. For example, I continue to believe that the existence of many cases in which between-person variability does not increase with age indicates that greater variance with increased age is not inevitable among healthy individuals up to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Inferences, Research Methodology, Data Analysis
McGrath, Helen; O'Toole, Thomas – European Journal of Training and Development, 2012
Purpose: The main aim of this paper is to develop guidelines on the critical issues to consider in research design in an action research (AR) environment for SME network capability development. Design/methodology/approach: The issues in research design for AR studies are developed from the authors' experience in running learning sets but, in…
Descriptors: Research Design, Action Research, Research Methodology, Data Analysis
Maxwell, Joseph A. – Qualitative Inquiry, 2010
The use of numerical/quantitative data in qualitative research studies and reports has been controversial. Prominent qualitative researchers such as Howard Becker and Martyn Hammersley have supported the inclusion of what Becker called "quasi-statistics": simple counts of things to make statements such as "some," "usually," and "most" more…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Methods Research, Statistical Data, Data Collection
Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth, Ed.; Yudelson, Michael, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2018
The 11th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2018) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Templeton Landing in Buffalo, New York. This year's EDM conference was highly competitive, with 145 long and short paper submissions. Of these, 23 were accepted as full papers and 37…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Computer Science Education, Program Proposals
Ntseane, Peggy Gabo – Convergence, 2004
This article presents the results of a study that was conducted as an effort to identify the needs of sex workers as potential beneficiaries of future HIV prevention and empowerment activities. The purpose of this study was to assess the situation and needs of sex workers in the context of HIV/AIDS. Data were collected from one of the small…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Occupations, Status, Problems
