For the last two decades, federal legislation and Massachusetts’ state ABE policies have linked adult learners’ educational outcomes to accountability requirements. Using a multi-method approach ABE learners’ goal setting was presented as a decision problem in order to reveal and disentangle the conflicting preferences fueled by outcome-based accountability requirements. Elicitation of values using value-focused thinking (VFT) methodology revealed that learner’s self-defined goals are consistently distinct from program-defined goals, that teachers recognize this disjunction, and that efforts to reconcile the two could yield significant improvements in ABE program outcomes
To date, there is an empirical gap in the evidence of the relations between teachers' classroom goal...
education, a growing body of research supports the view that learning is largely a goal-directed pro...
Background. There is evidence that learners may adopt different kinds of achievement goals: mastery ...
For the last two decades, federal legislation and Massachusetts’ state ABE policies have linked adul...
For the last two decades, federal legislation and Massachusetts’ state ABE policies have linked adul...
Exercising student voice through learner-lead outcome differentiation promotes intrinsic motivation ...
According to expectancy-value theories, increasing the utility value of a learning activity should r...
College academic adjustment involves both academic success and a sense of belonging in the college e...
We recognize there are significant external and internal barriers to effective planning and goal pu...
As a whole, associations are considered the largest and most diverse providers of adult education se...
The benefits of self-regulated learning have been confirmed. However, research is still pending on m...
In the current environment of global economic restructuring, changes in work and employment, and lar...
This retrospective case study chronicles and critically interprets the design, development, and even...
Accountability policies in most states strongly shape how adult education literacy is defined and de...
This article extends currently reported theory and practice in the use of learning goals or targets ...
To date, there is an empirical gap in the evidence of the relations between teachers' classroom goal...
education, a growing body of research supports the view that learning is largely a goal-directed pro...
Background. There is evidence that learners may adopt different kinds of achievement goals: mastery ...
For the last two decades, federal legislation and Massachusetts’ state ABE policies have linked adul...
For the last two decades, federal legislation and Massachusetts’ state ABE policies have linked adul...
Exercising student voice through learner-lead outcome differentiation promotes intrinsic motivation ...
According to expectancy-value theories, increasing the utility value of a learning activity should r...
College academic adjustment involves both academic success and a sense of belonging in the college e...
We recognize there are significant external and internal barriers to effective planning and goal pu...
As a whole, associations are considered the largest and most diverse providers of adult education se...
The benefits of self-regulated learning have been confirmed. However, research is still pending on m...
In the current environment of global economic restructuring, changes in work and employment, and lar...
This retrospective case study chronicles and critically interprets the design, development, and even...
Accountability policies in most states strongly shape how adult education literacy is defined and de...
This article extends currently reported theory and practice in the use of learning goals or targets ...
To date, there is an empirical gap in the evidence of the relations between teachers' classroom goal...
education, a growing body of research supports the view that learning is largely a goal-directed pro...
Background. There is evidence that learners may adopt different kinds of achievement goals: mastery ...