A Case Study of the Educational Experience of Adult Students with Dyslexia Across Five TAFE Institutes in Queensland

2020 ◽  
pp. 353-375
Author(s):  
Jacque Caskey
Keyword(s):  
Adult Students ◽  
Educational Experience

scholarly journals Spiritual and Religious Support for Underrepresented First-Generation, Low-Income (UFGLI) Students

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 548
Author(s):  
Elliott Ingersoll ◽  
Sophia Elliott ◽  
Stephanie Drcar
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Low Income ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Educational Experience ◽  
Religious Support ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Minimal Support ◽  
Systemic Barriers

UFGLI students comprise 34% of the students enrolled in four-year universities. Unlike some students, UFGLI students face internal and systemic barriers throughout their educational experience and their struggles are often dismissed and disregarded. Working and raising a family while taking courses, minimal support systems, and financial struggles require students to optimize their resources. We explore the issues of UFGLI students and the importance of their spiritual and religious supports using a literature review and a case study. Religious and spiritual identities are resources that should be explored and supported by staff at university counselling centers. Affirming UFGLI students’ religious and spiritual identities and understanding how religion and spirituality work in their lives can assist these students in their acclimation to and success at university.

scholarly journals Profile of Vocabulary Learning of Vocabulary Masters of STIMIK Amikom and ABA Sinema Yogyakarta

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marita Nurharjanti ◽  
Imam Ghozali
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Adult Students ◽  
Vocabulary Learning ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Functional Language ◽  
Authentic Material ◽  
Learning English

Vocabulary mastery is one of the goals of language learning. Vocabulary is very important because it is one of the most functional language elements needed to perform communication. This paper reports a case study on vocabulary learning by a group of adult students learning English in two different universities. The objective of this research is to describe the profile of the vocabulary learning of the ten best vocabulary masters in two private universities. The research involved 5 students from STMIK Amikom and 5 students from ABA Sinema; both are in Yogyakarta. Those participants were chosen based three criteria; their cognitive, affective and psychomotor factors. The findings show that the masters develope varying degree of their receptive as well as the productive skills; second, the masters learn from authentic material because it is more effective; third, in order to produce a better translation, the vocabulary masters review results of their internet-based translation due to their lack of grammatical use.

scholarly journals Understanding PhD Latinx Career Outcomes: A Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Kamimura-Jimenez ◽  
John Gonzalez
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Educational Experience ◽  
Career Outcomes ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
The University

This study explored the career outcomes for Latinx doctoral students and the contextual factors of their educational experience influencing these outcomes. A case-study approach is taken to examine the cases of doctoral students at the University of Michigan. These students were tracked each year, for 10 years post-graduation. Furthermore, an analysis of programmatic efforts to develop doctoral students and prepare them for the marketplace is also described as institutional structures that support career success.

scholarly journals Transformational Learning in Higher Education Settings: A Case Study of “Teaching Teachers to Teach”

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Sonya Hidalgo ◽  
Mark Koebernik ◽  
Kathlene Williams
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Achievement ◽  
Adult Students ◽  
Transformational Learning ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Education Faculty ◽  
Higher Education Faculty ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Disorienting Dilemma

 Transformational learning (TL) theory posits that adult students experience a disorienting dilemma and then engage in critical self-reflection (Mezirow, 1997). University faculty are often not pursuant toward improving andragogy skills, including utilizing TL. The purpose of this study is to determine if student achievement would increase if higher education faculty were trained to be better teachers in addition to being experts in their chosen field.  

Meaningful Learning from Sustained Online Communication

2013 ◽  
pp. 208-216
Author(s):  
Salam Abdallah ◽  
Fayez Albadri
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Adult Students ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Discussion Board ◽  
Discussion Boards ◽  
E Learning

This case study discusses a model of evaluating a group of adult students learning resulting from using an online social constructivist tool. The study is based on using a discussion board for sharing and co-constructing knowledge. Learning through social interactions and critical thinking is increasingly considered an essential teaching approach and especially for adult students. This approach promotes active learning and leads to better understanding of the subject matter. Online interaction evidently promotes critical thinking, problem solving, and knowledge construction. The literature provides a large set of approaches for evaluating discussion boards. However, their uses are not easily adoptable by faculty who are primarily interested in measuring the quality of online discussion. The authors contend that faculty should not adhere to a single measure but rather to be experiential and to develop their own models of evaluation of the students’ online learning experience. This case study discusses our own model for understanding the students’ learning experience and the authors’ approach to assess an individual’s level of engagement in critical thinking. The study contributes to the body of knowledge on adopting e-learning technologies at institutions in the Arab World for teaching adult students.

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