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Agyekum, Boadi – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
Access to higher education is often limited to adults because of their location. This is particularly challenging for adults who live in rural communities and small towns and can lead to unmet expectations. While policy makers have long recognised the potential impact of lifelong education for adults, the educational needs of adults have received…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Rural Areas, Access to Education
Phan, Anh Ngoc Quynh – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This article reports a study that investigated Vietnamese doctoral students' motivations to pursue their doctoral study outside their home country. Analyses of in-depth interviews with 19 participants revealed what made a PhD abroad imaginable to them, thus revealing the motivational factors for Vietnamese doctoral students to sojourn for their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Student Motivation, Study Abroad
Capello, Sarah A. – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
For decades, the field of education has been criticized for failing to distinguish between the PhD and EdD degrees. However, the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate has recently redefined the EdD as a professional practice doctorate and offered a framework for program (re)design that includes the generation and application of practitioner…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Outcome Based Education, Program Design, Doctoral Degrees
Roe, Lisa – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
Service-Learning is a form of experiential learning where faculty integrate a service or community engagement component into academic coursework. Supported by a growing body of literature documenting the impact of service-learning on undergraduate students as a high-impact practice in the United States, the scholarship and practice of…
Descriptors: Andragogy, Service Learning, Guidelines, Teaching Methods
Itasanmi, Sunday A. – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This study investigated determinants of the behavioural intention of Open Distance Learning (ODL) students to use digital tools and resources for learning in Nigeria. The study utilized an online questionnaire to gather data from 522 ODL students from an ODL institution in Nigeria. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) was…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Intention, Distance Education, Educational Technology
Hoter, Elaine; Rutlinger Reiner, Reina – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This article examines how mature Israeli teachers returning to academia after many years cope with the burden of their masters' studies in addition to their work as teachers and how the college can improve the well-being of these students and help avoid academic burnout. The study is based on repeated in-depth interviews with 18 female teachers.…
Descriptors: Well Being, Foreign Countries, Masters Programs, Burnout
Stephen, Jacqueline S. – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
Since the mid-1970s, researchers have provided theoretical frameworks that continue to be used today to explain persistence and attrition of nontraditional undergraduate students in higher education. Previous frameworks emphasized specific skills nontraditional undergraduate students need upon admission into an online program to support their…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Nontraditional Students, Undergraduate Students, Electronic Learning
Pong, Hok-Ko; Leung, Chi Hung; Cheung, Ho Yin – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
In the current research, we developed and validated a questionnaire to measure Chinese working adults' motivation to study accounting on a path of lifelong learning in Hong Kong, China. We conducted individual in-depth interviews with adult learners (n = 30) and professionals (n = 12) in study 1 and study 2. Qualitative analysis showed six…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Foreign Countries, College Students
Cox, Rebecca D. – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This article explores the perspectives of immigrant student-parents who pursued post-secondary education at one community college in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Drawing from interviews with 10 women who had immigrated to Canada as adults, this analysis focuses on the experiences and pathways of the immigrant student-mothers…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Mother Attitudes, Educational Experience, Social Differences
Holder, Abigail M.; Derzis, Nicholas C.; Shippen, Margaret; Park, Jinhee – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
In 2018, the Bureau of Justice Statistics released the results of a nine-year longitudinal study that among 412,731 inmates released in 2005, 84% of them were rearrested. This high recidivism rate shows a clear need for reentry intervention to reduce these rates. A key part of reentry intervention should include career readiness, which helps…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, Career Development, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
Strukel, David; White, Linda; Alhabash, Saleem – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
Nontraditional students pursuing an advanced degree face unique challenges as compared to full-time traditional students. Current and former masters and PhD students (N = 266) were surveyed to examine differences in their educational experiences and emotional outcomes, and determinants of their positive and negative graduate education experiences.…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Positive Attitudes, Negative Attitudes, Student Experience
Fulton, Kara A.; Archibald, Audon; Hudson, Cassie; Rogers, Jordan; Peecksen, Scott; Heap, Tania – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
A responsible citizen is someone who understands their role in the community and attempts to make a positive impact. Service-learning is one way to encourage responsible citizenship by asking students to engage with and reflect on their communities. This study explores student perceptions toward civic engagement in an undergraduate course focused…
Descriptors: Citizenship Responsibility, Service Learning, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
Crone, Travis S.; Babb, Stephanie J. – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
The current study further explored the relationship between nontraditional students and academic entitlement. Previous research has established that the presence of more nontraditional factors predicts lower levels of reported academic entitlement. The mechanisms responsible for this connection have not been explored though. The current study…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Student Attitudes, Locus of Control, Student Motivation
Baumann, Sheron; Keimer, Imke – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This contribution examines individual benefits of continuing higher education courses provided by a business school. Lifelong learning is important when it comes to keeping up with changing professional requirements and conditions. Adult education and training courses in the form of continuing higher education offer an organized and systematic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Benefits, Business Schools, Informal Education
Urban, Kamila; Jirsáková, Jitka – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
In contrast to traditional students, post-traditional students follow a broken path through the education system. Therefore, they are older when studying and often have jobs and families. The aim of the present study was to investigate motivation and personality character traits in 67 adult learners (part-time students) and 84 traditional students…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Personality Traits, Foreign Countries, Barriers