The increase in adult college students who have been away from formal education for several years and who are seeking degrees to match the status level they have achieved in business requires a specially organized composition course. Two strategies will keep the course organization and content professional, yet meet individual students' needs in…

Some of the leading concepts of phenomenology have direct relevance for the practice of adult education. Adults bring to the learning experience a vast stock of assimilated knowledge. Very important to the process is the notion of critical reflection as a constituent of this stock of knowledge--the knowledge is not merely stored but is judged and…

A COMPARISON WAS MADE OF THE AMOUNT OF LEARNING IN AN ADULT EVENING CLASS ON CAMPUS WITH THAT OF AN EXPERIMENTAL CLASS WHICH ATTENDED SESSIONS ON CAMPUS AND SPENT TWO WEEKENDS AT A UNIVERSITY RESIDENTIAL CENTER. IT WAS EXPECTED THAT THE EXPERIMENTAL CLASS WOULD LEARN MORE AND EXPERIENCE POSITIVE CHANGES IN ATTITUDE AS COMPARED WITH THE CONTROL…

This report is a summary of the findings of the societal trends survey completed at the National Forum on Learning and The American Future, which focused on factors influencing the future of adult learning. The survey questionnaire and results consist of 120 societal trend statements organized into sixteen different content areas: demography;…

A study was made of personal changes in 50 graduate students in education, public health, social work, psychology, business administration, and public administration, and public administration who took a special 15-week university course in adult education methodology. Major course objectives were to help class members (1) to see themselves as…

More than 4,000 titles were scrutinized (600 of which are cited) in preparing this report of research in liberal, nonvocational adult education at an early stage in the development of a new discipline within the total universe of education. Wide differences were noted in the amount and quality of research in the various disciplines of the field…

This set of abstracts has been assembled to provide a brief introduction to the psychological research literature related to adult development. The present focus on psychological aspects includes only a portion of the research literature related to adult development, which in its entirety draws from all of the social and behavioral sciences. Even…

This handbook gives advice to the adult learner on such problems as effectively concentrating and listening, improving reading skills, responsibly participating in group discussions, and taking tests successfully. Also included are discussions concerning adults' learning processes and efficient study habits. Concluding chapters deal with the use…

This handbook is a result of a project in Adult Vocational Education undertaken by the Illinois Office of Education's Division of Adult, Vocational, and Technical Education, and the College of Education at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. The handbook is intended to provide an introduction to adult vocational education for new teachers,…

Preparatory to developing a curriculum for parents to use in teaching children how to evaluate the reality and applicability of television in their lives, interviews were held with 13-year-olds and 16-year-olds and adult whites, blacks, and Puerto Ricans around Boston to determine the processes they used to make such discrimination. The…

This investigation was intended to study the effects of some linguistic variables on child and adult memories for sentences when recall was prompted by nouns embedded in the sentences. Its purpose was to examine for developmental differences in sentence processing systems expected by psycholinguistic theory and research. A group of 64 subjects,…

This study investigated whether older female graduate students who have experienced an interruption in their formal academic education will display greater achievement motivation when competing against a male than will younger graduate females or undergraduate females. The measure of achievement motivation was the percentage of incompleted tasks…

This document reports on one of a series of three surveys conducted on behalf of the Commission on Non-Traditional Study. The chief purpose of this study is to describe in detail the potential market for adult learning. A second general purpose is to analyze the learning activities of men and women who are engaged in adult learning. To gather this…

The authors cite adult learning research and their experience with a three-year pilot program conducted by the University of Nebraska and the Nebraska State Department of Education to support their contention that vocational agriculture inservice teacher education should be individualized. Seven principles of individualized inservice teacher…

Based on a synopsis of research studies, the relationship of second language learning to affective factors, such as language shock, attitude motivation, ego permeability, etc., is examined. Also, it is suggested that affective variables may be more important than maturation in the problems of adults in learning a second language. (MS)