Dec 14, 2015
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This is What They Said
Saint Nick--sall
The name of the organization that conducted the Adult
Learner Persistence Study
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What is the
National Center for the Study of Adult
Learning and Literacy (NCSALL)?
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The group of states in which the study was
conducted
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What are the New England states?
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Two of the four supports that the study identified as
having an impact on learner persistence
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(Name two) What are:
•Managing positive and negative forces
•Building self efficacy
•Setting clear goals
•Seeing progress?
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Name of the largest type of adult learners identified in the study
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What are:
Intermittent Intermittent Learners?Learners?
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NCSALL’s proposed definition of learner
persistence that recognizes and
accommodates the “stop out”
phenomenonTimer
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What is: Adults staying in programs for as long
as they can, engaging in supported self study or distance education when they must
stop attending program services, and returning to program services as soon as the demands of their lives
allow?
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The main question that Belzer wanted to answer in her study
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What is “how do adult learners feel about
leaving our programs?”
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Name given to the cycle of enrolling, leaving, and re-entering adult
education programs
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What is “stopping out?”
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Beder stated that these two issues were the most understated
problems in adult education
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What are continuous enrollment and mixed
skill level classes?
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Tom Sticht says persistence increases
in these types of classes
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What are classes where the focus of
students and classrooms are more
closely aligned?
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Intermittent learners describe this as the
reason for their early departures
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What are “factors beyond their control?”
This Jeopardy template was created by Dr. Robert Pettis, Director
An Adventure of the American Mind, University of South Carolina Spartanburg
http://www.uscupstate.edu/academics/education/aam/wkshps/wkshp.htm
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