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Direct linkGascoigne, Carolyn; Parnell, Juliette – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2014
With the rise in online and hybrid courses at the post-secondary level, many institutions are offering various online learning readiness assessments to students who are considering these instructional formats. Following a discussion of the characteristics often attributed to successful online learners, as well as a review of a sample of the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Blended Learning, Postsecondary Education
Bochner, Joseph H.; Walter, Gerard G. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2005
The purpose of this study was to investigate alternative methods for evaluating deaf students' readiness to meet the English language and literacy demands of postsecondary educational programs. In the first part of the study, scores obtained by a large sample of deaf students on the ACT Assessment (ACT Composite score and scores on the ACT English…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Deafness, College Entrance Examinations, College Students
Tuijnman, Albert; Belanger, Paul, Ed. – 1997
This book contains 10 papers based on a data set from the 1994 International Adult Literacy Survey, which collected data from more than 20,000 individual respondents in samples representative of the adult populations in 6 countries: Canada, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. The papers are: "Foreword"…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Comparative Analysis
Download full textBaird, John – 2000
The information explosion and exponential development of information-accessing tools has had a disempowering effect on many people. A major challenge of the information-centered world is for students and teachers alike to learn how to assert responsibility and control over personal practice. Meeting this challenge may require personal…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Action Research, Adult Learning, Comparative Analysis
2002
This symposium on adult learning and human resource development consists of three presentations. "Adult Learning Principles and Concepts in the Workplace: Implications for Training in HRD" (Margot B. Weinstein) reports on findings from interviews with restaurant employees who reported that training practices using adult learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Development, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Aliaga, Oscar A., Ed. – 2001
This document contains 127 papers and innovative sessions and three poster sessions presented at a conference on human resource development (HRD). A program overview, author index, keyword index, and a CD-ROM version of the document are also included. The papers are grouped by the conference's 44 symposiums, which were devoted to the following…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adjustment (to Environment), Administrators, Adult Learning
