A Descriptive and Interpretive Study: The Intellectual Development of Adults.

Autor/in	Wilson, Barbara A.
Titel	A Descriptive and Interpretive Study: The Intellectual Development of Adults.
Quelle	(1996), (31 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Adult Development; Adult Learning; Age Differences; College Faculty; Comparative Analysis; Educational Attainment; Focus Groups; Intellectual Development; Learning Strategies; Relationship; Sex Differences; Technical Institutes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Erwachsenwerden; Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Fakultät; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Mental development; Geistige Entwicklung; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Wechselbeziehung; Sex difference; Geschlechtsunterschied; Technische Fakultät
Abstract	A study compared the intellectual development among 118 technical college instructors aged 35-65 who had different educational backgrounds. In a 3 x 2 factor design, 3 groups of educational experience (no baccalaureate degree, baccalaureate degree, and master's degree) were represented, with 20 subjects (10 men and 10 women) in each group. The subjects completed the Learning Environment Preferences (LEP), a survey that was developed by William Moore on the basis of William Perry's Schema of Intellectual and Ethical Development. The LEP consists of five domains related to epistemology and approaches to learning: view of knowledge and course content; role of the instructor; role of student and peers in the classroom; classroom atmosphere; and role of evaluation. Qualitative data were also collected in four focus group discussions. Those instructors with master's degrees scored significantly higher in intellectual development than did those instructors with either a baccalaureate or less than a baccalaureate degree. Gender also appeared to be related to intellectual development (women scored significantly higher in intellectual development than men did). Age, on the other hand, did not appear to be significantly related to intellectual development. (Contains 22 references.) (MN)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01