ERIC Number: ED278871
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986-Oct-22
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Continuing Education in the Humanities: Participant Learning Is Questionable?
Courtenay, Brad; Holt, Margaret
A study examined the impact of two projects funded by the Georgia Endowment for the Humanities on participants' learning and behavior. The first project was a symposium entitled "Two Hundred Years of Georgia and the South: A Symposium," which was held at the University of Georgia Continuing Education Center. The second project, "Georgia Governors in an Age of Change: From Ellis Arnall to George Busbee," was also a symposium and was cosponsored by the Social Science Division of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College and the Georgia Department of Archives and History. Data were collected from mail questionnaires returned by 132 participants in the first symposium (a 57 percent rate of return) and 143 participants (a 47 percent return rate) in the second symposium as well as from telephone surveys of a random sample of 50 participants in each seminar. The interviews were conducted three and six months respectively after the symposia. Only five percent of the responses from those attending the first symposium indicated that the participants did not learn anything. Two-thirds of what the participants reported learning related directly to the symposium's purpose, and 62 percent of responses also showed that the symposium had an impact on further study. While the participants at the second symposium also experienced change in the form of learning, results for transfer of learning in this symposium were mixed (with four of seven indicators showing minimal impact). (Appendixes include the survey instruments, interview forms, and condensed responses.) (MN)
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Tests/Questionnaires
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Georgia
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