Learner Persistence
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How can adult literacy education programs help their adult students persist long enough in their studies to achieve their goal(s)?
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Frequently Asked Questions about Learner Persistence
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Specific Issues
- Institutional and School Barriers to Persistence PersistenceTopicInstitutionalBarriers
- The Impact of Outreach - Persistence starts before enrollment
- Classroom Level Factors and Interventions
- Teacher Level Factors and Interventions
- Addressing the Issue of Student Support
- Student Features PersistenceTopicsStudentFeatures
- Demographics
- Dispositional Barriers and Interventions
- Situational Barriers and Interventions
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Discussion
- Distance Learning and Learner Persistence Distance and Persistence
Read or add to a discussion on the relationship between Distance Learning and Learner Persistence (Research on learner persistence shows that learners come and go from organized programs. Can we support people to continue their studies through various kinds of distance learning when they can't come to school?)
- Archived Discussions related to learner persistence from the LPRPConnections Discussion List LPRPArchives
- Learner Persistence LPRPArchivesLearnerPersistence
- Managed Enrollment LPRPArchivesManagedEnrollment
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Research Reports
- Research on learner persistence reported by John Comings at the National Adult Education Practitioner-Researcher Symposium, Sacramento, CA, December, 2004. AleLearnerPersistenceResearch
- CALPRO Research Brief on Learner Persistence http://www.calpro-online.org/pubs/100719LearnerPersistenceNewsletterPress.pdf
- Report from a pilot study: Introducing managed enrollment into an ESL program
http://www.miracosta.cc.ca.us/Instruction/CommunityEducation/ESL/managedenrollment.htm
- Time to Leave? Progression and Drop Out in Basic Skills Programmes (UK, 1994)
http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/24/20/72.pdf
- Where Next? Drop Out and Progression from ESOL Provision (UK, 1996)
http://www.basic-skills.co.uk/general/documentdownload.php?p=308
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Resources
- Adult Learner Persistence Website http://www.nelrc.org/persist/
This site reports on research and provides examples of practices that support persistence.
- 30 minute streamed video, a Persistence panel discussion with researcher, John Comings, and practitioners Kathy Endaya and Ernest Best, moderated by David J. Rosen http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/webcasts/persistence/persistence_cast.html
- NCSALL Resources on Adult Student Persistence
- Study Circle Guide: Adult Student Persistence: http://www.ncsall.net/?id=896
- Seminar Guides: http://www.ncsall.net/?id=598
- Annotated listing of materials on Persistence: http://www.ncsall.net/?id=791
- Self-studies for teachers/tutors: http://www.ncsall.net/?id=611
- Resources for Policymakers: http://www.ncsall.net/?id=815
- CALPRO Study Circle Resources
- Suggestions for supporting learner persistence http://www.calpro-online.org/announce/Collected_Strategies.pdf
- Examples of actions programs have taken based on study circles http://www.calpro-online.org/announce/ActionsProgramsTook.pdf
- Draft Action Plans and Templates http://www.calpro-online.org/announce/StudyCircles_PlanningFollowUp.pdf
- California Adult Learner Persistence Project
- California Department of Education Self-Directed Web site for Adult Educators http://www.adultlearnerpersistence.org/login.cfm
- Project Publication includes Field-based Research Initiative on Learner Persistence http://www.calpro-online.org/pubs.asp
- Site-based Study Circles on Learner Persistence http://www.calpro-online.org/adminPages/studyCircles.asp
- Program Administrators' Sourcebook: A Resource on NCSALL's Research for Adult Education Program Administrators (Section 2: Adult Student Persistence) http://www.ncsall.net/?id=1035
- The role of State Staff in Promoting Student Persistence http://naepdc.org/state_staff/COABE_Resources.htm
- Teacher Tools for Supporting Persistence PersistenceTeacherTools
