Adult Learner Motivations
Some adult learners seek to expand their job skills to ensure ______ security
What is job security?
This barrier is assigned by credit hour and is non-negotiable when deciding to attend college
What is cost?
This barrier is expected to be paid when a student applies to participate in an educational program?
What are application fees?
This is also known as confidence in one's own ability
What is self-esteem?
Those who reside in non-metropolitan areas
Who are rural students?
Adult learners could be motivated by a change in socioeconomic status. Also known as....
What is upward mobility?
This barrier is a rigorous and intimidating process without enough resources to support college students with long term repayment plans
What is financial aid/student loans?
These formal testing requirements are often needed for freshman admission but add little to the holistic evaluation of adult learners.
What are admissions tests?
One's belief that they should or will achieve something
Those who are traditionally responsible for the household, child rearing, and also deal with dispositional barriers
Who are women?
Marketability, also known as this, allows employees to compete with others for certain jobs.
What is employability?
Sometimes these programs are available to students whose employers support their return to school
What are employer tuition assistance programs?
A lack of institutional flexibility is a major barrier for adult learners. This type of learning offered at a part-time pace is preferred by many adult learners.
What is distance learning?
The way a person views or thinks about something, can be positive or negative and often impacts performance
Those who are over the age of 55
Who are older adults?
Adult learners could be motivated by this, when you leave one area of work for another
What is a career change?
This barrier is expensive and lacking in availability for parents who need to attend class in the evenings.
Adult learners want this, also known as recognition, for their years of hard work and on the job training, which adds to their credentials and knowledge base.
What is credit?
This is a difficulty in learning that are more often seen in reading and math
What is a learning disorder?
Those without prior learning and primarily in blue collar jobs
Who are adult learners who are less educated?
Many employees seek professional development credit hours or these, also known as pieces of paper that may or may not be framed to show you completed a course.
What are certifications?
This lack of this life-sustaining activity often leads to end-of-week fatigue and poor work/school quality
What is sleep?
Those who cannot financially overcome the capitalist approach to higher education
Who are the adult learners in the working class or who have experienced generational poverty?