Dispositional factors affecting motivation during learning in adult basic and secondary education programs
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2013-04-01Author
Mellard, Daryl F.
Krieshok, Thomas S.
Fall, Emily C.
Woods, Kari
Publisher
Springer Verlag
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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Research indicates that about a quarter of adult students separate from formal adult basic and secondary education (ABE/ASE) programs before completing one educational level. This retrospective study explores individual dispositional factors that affect motivation during learning, particularly students’ goals, goal-directed thinking and action based on hope theory and attendance behaviors, and self-perceptions of competency based on affective domain attributions about external and internal obstacles to learning and employment, and demographic factors. Among 274 ABE/ASE students, those learners who made an education gain in 1 year significantly differed from those who did not in only a few dispositional or demographic variables; and by educational level they significantly differed in a wide variety of dispositional and demographic variables. These findings suggest researchable questions and programmatic considerations that may lead to future innovations that improve learner persistence.
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The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11145-012-9413-4.
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Mellard, D. F., Krieshok, T., Fall, E., & Woods, K. (2013). Dispositional factors affecting motivation during learning in adult basic and secondary education programs. Reading and Writing, 26(4), 515–538. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-012-9413-4
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