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Direct linkRothes, Ana; Lemos, Marina S.; Gonçalves, Teresa – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2017
This study investigated profiles of autonomous and controlled motivation and their effects in a sample of 188 adult learners from two Portuguese urban areas. Using a person-centered approach, results of cluster analysis and multivariate analysis of covariance revealed four motivational groups with different effects in self-efficacy, engagement,…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Learning Strategies, Independent Study, Profiles
Download full textLuke, Douglas; Justice, Madeline – Administrative Issues Journal: Connecting Education, Practice, and Research, 2016
Adult enrollment in higher education institutions has grown significantly during the last decade, with students aged 25 and older attending 4-year institutions at higher rates than before. In the 21st century, few can improve their socioeconomic status or advance professionally without higher education. Colleges and universities must consider this…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Business Administration Education, Accounting, Finance Occupations
Cachioni, Meire; Nascimento Ordonez, Tiago; Lima da Silva, Thais Bento; Tavares Batistoni, Samila Sathler; Sanches Yassuda, Mônica; Caldeira Melo, Ruth; Rodrigues da Costa Domingues, Marisa Accioly; Lopes, Andrea – Educational Gerontology, 2014
The objectives were to describe the stated motives of participants who enrolled in a program at the Open University for the Elderly (UnATI, in Portuguese), identify correlations between the stated motives and sociodemographic data, and find a set of predictors related to the listed motives. A total of 306 middle-aged and elderly adults aged 50 or…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Continuing Education, Student Motivation, Open Universities
Moskovsky, Christo; Alrabai, Fakieh; Paolini, Stefania; Ratcheva, Silvia – Language Learning, 2013
While consensus exists about the critical role of learners’ motivation in second language acquisition, controlled investigations of the effects of teachers’ motivational strategies are limited. The research reported here used a quasi-experimental design to assess the effects of motivational strategies used by Saudi English as a foreign language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Motivation Techniques, Second Language Learning
Gammill, Deidra MacLellan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This two-phase sequential mixed methods study examined the relationship between professional development, whether in the form of traditional professional development, a professional learning community and/or lesson study, and teacher self-efficacy and self-directed learning in order to gain a greater understanding of the role professional…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Self Concept, Mixed Methods Research
Lin, Chin-Yen; Kuo, Tsung-Hsien; Kuo, Yen-Ku; Kuo, Yen-Lin; Ho, Li-An; Lin, Chien-Ting – Educational Studies, 2007
The study investigates the effect of length of meditation history on various factors, namely learning motivation, learning outcome and classroom climate. Data were collected from working adult learners (n = 450) attending meditation classes in two large cities in Taiwan. The investigation categorized learners based on meditation experience, namely…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Group Discussion, Classroom Environment
Golovatch, Yelena; Vanderplank, Robert – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2007
This article reports on an investigation into the attributions of success and perceived areas of strength and weakness of adult learners of English as a foreign language in the Department of Continuing Education at Minsk State Linguistic University, Belarus. The students attributed their limited progress in learning the foreign language mainly to…
Descriptors: Role, Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Teacher Attitudes
