ERIC Number: ED378307
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1991-Oct
Pages: 199
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Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference (10th, St. Paul, Minnesota, October 3-4, 1991). Conference Proceedings [and] Addendum.
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Coll. of Education.
These proceedings and addendum contain 31 papers: "Linking Motivation and Participation in Adult Education" (Babchuk, Courtney); "Workplace Literacy Education as Contextual Learning" (Babchuk, Dirkx); "Model for Focusing Research in Adult Agricultural Education" (Birkenholz et al.); "A Research Agenda for Adult Civic Education" (Boggs, Stubblefield); "A Comparison of Adult Baccalaureate Graduates and Nonpersisters" (Christensen); "Ways of Doing" (Courtney); "Homelessness and Work Experience" (Davis); "Boundary Awareness in Tutor-Student Relationships" (Dirkx, Fonfara, Flaska); "Understanding and Facilitating Experience-Based Learning in Adult Education" (Dirkx, Lavin); "Adult Development" (Ferro); "Volunteer Issues and Trends Survey in the 1990s" (Hanson-Stone); "Extension Education" (Hutchins); "Barriers to Education as Perceived by Adult Students and Administrators in Minnesota Community Colleges and Technical Colleges" (Larson); "Learning Strategies Concerns among ABE [Adult Basic Education] Practitioners" (Martin, Fisher); "The Great Tradition Revisited" (Morris); "In Their Own Voices" (Reif); "Threats and Promises" (Schultz, Sparks); "Effectiveness, Cost, and Cost-Effectiveness of Education To Achieve Health Goals" (Splett); "Correlating the High School Tests of General Education Development and the Official GED Practice Test" (Stewart); "Educational Orientation and Job Satisfaction" (Suvedi); "Knowledge Structures Underlying Real World Practice" (Thomas, Englund); "An Investigation of the Relationship between Self-Directed Learning Projects and Progress toward Individuation" (Wilson, Knapp); "Adult Mathematics Learning" (Wolfe); "Teaching toward Self-Directedness" (Ellis); "Issues for Non-Traditional Undergraduate Students Living in Traditional College and University Residence Halls" (Herr); "Practitioner Conducted Evaluation Studies" (Jazwiec); "Identifying Critical Factors of Quality" (Kersten); "Putting Behavior in Performance Goals" (Lynn); "Reaching for the Future" (Sandmann); and "Conducting Evaluation in Adult Literacy Programs" (Turner). (KC)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Behavioral Objectives, College Housing, Educational Practices, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, High School Equivalency Programs, Higher Education, Mathematics Instruction, Nontraditional Students, Student College Relationship, Student Motivation
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Coll. of Education.
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