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Roth, Beate Buanes; Westrheim, Kariane; Jones, Lise; Manger, Terje – Journal of Correctional Education, 2017
The purpose of this study is to gain knowledge about how prisoners' academic self-efficacy, educational motives, and aspects of their prison sentences affect their educational participation while incarcerated. The article reports on data from a national survey on prisoners with Norwegian citizenship. The results revealed that prisoners who had…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Self Efficacy, Learning Motivation, Institutionalized Persons
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Roth, Beate Buanes; Asbjørnsen, Arve; Manger, Terje – Journal of Prison Education and Reentry, 2016
Prison education is an important aspect of adult education. This study investigated current participation in prison education, as well as previous convictions, sentence length, and the portion of sentence served as predictors of academic self-efficacy. Survey data derived from prisoners in all Norwegian prisons provided the empirical evidence for…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Self Efficacy, Correctional Education, Adult Education