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  title info:
    title: Learning efforts of adults undertaken for matriculating into a community college
  name:
    name part: Geisler, Keith Kane
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Barker, Donald G.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Christiansen, James E.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Fellenz, Robert A.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Seaman, Don F.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1984
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 146 leaves ; 29 cm
  abstract: The purpose of the study was to describe and analyze the learning episodes undertaken by adults to matriculate into a community college. Eight learning episodes were examined. They were: self, educational goals, special arrangements, costs, program and/or courses, opportunity, institutional procedures, and institution. Data were collected from interviews with a random sample of 33 adult community college students who were enrolled during the spring and/or summer of 1983 at McLennan Community College, Waco, Texas. A revised version of the interview procedure and technique developed by Tough at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education was employed. The interviewees spent an average of 92.6 hours involved in self-directed learning episodes toward matriculation. An average of 85 percent of the time devoted to learning activities was without professional assistance, and an average of 47 percent of the interviewees obtained no professional assistance or information while engaged in one or more of the learning episodes examined in the study. The interviewees named their families as the best sources of information for three of the eight learning episodes studied. College catalogs, published class schedules, and brochures were identified as the best sources of information for two learning episodes; and other students were considered the best sources of information for two other learning episodes. College employees were not named as the best source of information or assistance for any of the learning episodes examined in the study. The interviewees spent an average of 36 percent of the total time devoted to the learning project of matriculation learning about their educational goals. An average of 28 percent of the time was spent on learning activities directed at self--aptitudes, interest, abilities, and retention of unused skills. Important to the matriculation of the interviewees were previously enrolled adult students and support from significant others. Support and…
  note: "Major subject: Adult and Extension Education."
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. in Philosophy Texas A & M University 1984
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-116).
  subject:
    topic: Adult education
  subject:
    topic: Counseling in adult education
  subject:
    topic: Adult and Extension Education
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-434298
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 861113
    record change date: 20220103135014.0
    record identifier: in00000413530
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng