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Moffatt, Deborah E. Benson,

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Adult undergraduates: Exploring factors essential to success and persistence toward educational goals /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Adult undergraduates: Exploring factors essential to success and persistence toward educational goals // Deborah E. Benson Moffatt.
作者:	Moffatt, Deborah E. Benson,
面頁冊數:	1 electronic resource (185 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 72-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International72-04A.
標題:	Adult education. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3419984
ISBN:	9781124205519

Adult undergraduates: Exploring factors essential to success and persistence toward educational goals /
Moffatt, Deborah E. Benson,

Adult undergraduates: Exploring factors essential to success and persistence toward educational goals /Deborah E. Benson Moffatt. - 1 electronic resource (185 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 72-04, Section: A.

This qualitative study explored the lives and experiences of 45 adult undergraduates and the factors they identify as essential for success and persistence toward educational goals. What we learn from the adult students, roughly 26-60 years of age, is why they chose to add college to their already full lives, what they have experienced in college, and most importantly, why and how they succeed and persist. Among the factors identified as important or essential are support, personal motivation and determination, paying for college, and success in learning. The study was purposefully designed for maximum variation in adult learners, institutional types and geographic locations. Study participants are diverse in age and generation, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, family and household composition, employment, and community commitments. Two-year and four-year public and private colleges and universities in urban, suburban and rural settings in two mid-western states served as study sites. Information was gathered using a survey instrument, individual interviews, focus groups and follow-up activities. New questions specifically developed for this study investigate life commitments in the areas of family/household composition and community involvement. The family/household composition questions included extended family as well as family members with health, mental health concerns, or disabilities. The process of identifying and documenting individual characteristics, life experiences, classroom interactions and encounters with campus and academic services was guided using a systems theory framework. Inductive and narrative analysis methodologies were used to identify and present the stories and experiences of adult students. Inductive analysis identified relevant themes among the participants. Narrative analysis used the words, emotions, and tonal inflections of adults to ensure that participant voices were evident in the written narrative (Denzin, 1989; Patton, 2002). The results of this study will be of interest to colleges and universities currently serving or choosing to plan for adult undergraduate populations. College personnel may include faculty, advisors, support staff, faculty and staff development educators, program planners or administrators. These results may also be of interest to adult educators and practitioners working with adult learners in community programs and college readiness seminars.

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