Adult Learner Persistence: a study circle (session 2 of 3) (Bos)

Adult Literacy Resource Institute/SABES Greater Boston Regional Support Center, Wheatley Building 4th Floor, Room 04-167/Library, UMass Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA
University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston)
Adult Literacy Resource Institute/Greater Boston SABES RSC
Wheatley Building, 4th Floor Rm 04-167
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125

Description: This 12-hour study circle consists of three four-hour sessions. The sessions are designed to explore the research on adult students' participation, retention and persistence, and to support practitioners to consider specific ways to address their students' persistence in their own programs and classes.

Indicators of Program Quality:

IPQ1 - Curriculum and instruction
IPQ3 - Student support services

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to: * Define study circles and identify their benefits for connecting adult education research to practice. * Compare the perspectives from four reviews of literature on participation, retention, and persistence that are specific to adult basic education. * Summarize the positive and negative forces that support or hinder student persistence including the four suppports to persistence suggested from the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Litearcy (NCSALL) Adult Student Persistence Study. * Differentiate the five pathways for program participation that are determined by personal and environmental factors. * Recommend program strategies for increasing adult student persistence. * Analyze their own program's retention data to determine current retention rates and intensity of instruction.