Personal and Educational Needs of Community College Adult Students [microform] / Deborah Trahern Lloyd
- Bib ID:
- 5538689
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Lloyd, Deborah Trahern
- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1990
- 101 p.
- Summary:
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The influx of older students has resulted in special needs for the community college. This study investigated the personal and educational needs of adult students (N=198). The independent variables were age, gender, marital status, number of hours enrolled, income, race, and number of children in the home. The dependent variables fell into four categories: life skill development needs; career development needs; educational planning needs; and needs connected with association with others. Within these categories were needs relating to: improving math, reading, speaking, and study skills; managing time, stress, and money; acquiring skill in decision making, goal setting, and use of leisure time; exploring different career possibilities; learning about the working experience as it actually is; becoming informed about four-year college entrance and graduation requirements, different majors, sources of financial aid, and various college services; and learning to get along with advisors, instructors, younger students; learning how to cope with single parenting, divorce, marital stress, and job, family, and school conflicts; and learning how to deal with differing opinions and discrimination. Five composite null hypotheses were tested employing a three-way analysis of variance. The results of the study appeared to support these generalizations: married students have greater educational planning needs than single students; and students with income levels from $21,000 to $29,999 have greater needs in the area of association than students with incomes over $50,000. The following interactions also appeared to be supported: (1) between gender and marital status for career development; (2) between age and credit hours enrolled for career development; (3) between age and credit hours enrolled for educational planning; (4) between age and credit hours enrolled for association with others; (5) between age and credit hours for life skills development; (6) between income level and number of children at home for career development; (7) among race, income level and number of children at home for career development; and (8) income level and number of children at home for educational planning. (Author/LLL)
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- ERIC Note: M.S. Thesis, Fort Hays State University.
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