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Establishing Conceptual Boundaries: What Is an Adult Education Project, Promise and Practice?
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Stein, David S. – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2014
In a movement toward workforce development as an academic entity, the identity of adult education as projects for inquiry is troubled. In some academic programs, adult education has been termed adult learning in the service of promoting teaching and learning for the workplace. However, adult education's inquiry, its projects, might be more…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Labor Force Development, Social Justice
How a Novice Adult Online Learner Experiences Transactional Distance
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Stein, David S.; Calvin, Jennifer; Wanstreet, Constance E. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2009
This naturalistic inquiry explored the theory of transactional distance by investigating how a novice adult learner experiences an online environment. Three themes that are related to how the novice learner reduces the transactional distance space emerged from an analysis of interview transcripts: creating a voice for learning, connecting in a…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Adult Students, Learning Experience, Educational Environment
The Promise and the Pathway: Marketing Higher Education to Adults
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Stein, David S.; Wanstreet, Constance E.; Saunders, Charles T., Jr.; Lutz, Michelle L. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2009
This study analyzed the content of college and university Web site home pages to determine the frequency of marketing messages that might persuade adult learners to enroll at the institution. The findings suggest that colleges and universities in this study do not have adult-oriented marketing messages and are giving scant attention to the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interests, Access to Information, Adult Students
The Primary Mental Health Project Reconsidered.
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Stein, David M.; Polyson, James – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1984
Offers an alternative interpretation of the Primary Mental Health Project's (PMHP) outcome, based on meta-analysis of the empirical data currently available. Results showed that effect sizes coincide reasonably well with those of past PMHP outcome studies. Positive outcomes for the typical PMHP-referred child are only inconsistently found. (BH)
Descriptors: Children, Identification, Meta Analysis, Program Effectiveness
Summary Street: Interactive Computer Support for Writing
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Wade-Stein, David; Kintsch, Eileen – Cognition and Instruction, 2004
Summary Street is educational software based on latent semantic analysis (LSA), a computer method for representing the content of texts. The classroom trial described here demonstrates the power of LSA to support an educational goal by providing automatic feedback on the content of students' summaries. Summary Street provides this feedback in an…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Software, Writing Skills, Writing Instruction
Creating Shared Understanding through Chats in a Community of Inquiry
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Stein, David S.; Wanstreet, Constance E.; Glazer, Hilda R.; Engle, Cheryl L.; Harris, Ruth A.; Johnston, Susan M.; Simons, Mona R.; Trinko, Lynn A. – Internet and Higher Education, 2007
This study investigated the process by which shared understanding develops in a chat learning space. It used a practical inquiry model to assess the development of cognitive presence. The study also explored how the pattern of conversation in synchronous discussion supports cognitive presence and how cognitive presence changes over time. Results…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Inquiry, Group Discussion, Computer Uses in Education