Motivating and Enabling Adult Learners to Develop Research Skills

Autor/in	McCarthy, Grace
Titel	Motivating and Enabling Adult Learners to Develop Research Skills
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 55 (2015) 2, S.309-330 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1443-1394
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Adult Students; Coaching (Performance); Graduate Students; Self Determination; Feedback (Response); Student Attitudes; Student Surveys; Research Skills; Adult Learning; Action Research; Masters Programs; Criticism; Personal Autonomy; Self Esteem; Reflection; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Adult; Adults; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Graduate Study; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Selbstbestimmung; Schülerverhalten; Schülerbefragung; Forschungsleistung; Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Projektforschung; Magister course; Magisterstudiengang; Kritik; Individuelle Autonomie; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Australien
Abstract	Adult learners undertaking a coursework masters are understandably nervous about undertaking research projects. However if done well, such projects represent a way to encourage the quantity and quality of practitioner research, which is important in all management disciplines, not only the emerging discipline of coaching. This paper offers an alternative to the individual master-apprentice model to which many research students are still exposed. Addressing the motivational needs identified in self-determination theory (autonomy, competence and relatedness) as well as self-efficacy and incorporating good practices in feedback, it outlines a way to make the process of learning how to do research more engaging than sitting listening to lectures. The paper reports the findings of a survey of the participants in the 2012 cohort who were asked if their competence and confidence in undertaking a research project had changed before and after undertaking the class, and if so, to list what they, their peers or staff had done to contribute to this change. The paper concludes that the approach offers a useful way to help adult learners develop research skills. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01