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Motivational Profiles of Adult Learners
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Rothes, 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
Vocationalism Varies (A Lot): A 12-Country Multivariate Analysis of Participation in Formal Adult Learning
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Boeren, 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
Researching Returns Emanating from Participation in Adult Education Courses: A Quantitative Approach
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Panitsides, Eugenia – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2013
Throughout contemporary literature, participants in adult education courses have been reported to acquire knowledge and skills, develop understanding and enhance self-confidence, parameters that induce changes in their personal lives, while enabling them to play a more active role in their family, community or work. In this vein, a large-scale,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Outcomes of Education, National Surveys
Motivational Factors and Predictors for Attending a Continuing Education Program for Older Adults
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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
Unwitting Agents: The Role of Adult Learners' Attributions of Success in Shaping Language-Learning Behaviour
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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
Proceedings of the Annual Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing, and Community Education (21st, DeKalb, Illinois, October 9-11, 2002).
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Orem, Richard A., Ed. – 2002
This document contains 41 papers and 11 poster session presentations from a conference on research-to-practice in adult, continuing, and community education. The following are among the papers included: "Learning in a Multicultural Environment" (Mansur Abdullah, Cory Eisenberg, Willard C. Hall Jr., Pauline Valvo); "How to Engage in…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs