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Adult Students: Predictors for Enrollment
Type of Presentation
Shared
Session Abstract
Educators can enhance understanding with this assessment instrument clarifying adult students’ enrollment needs when considering their students’ academic surroundings in their homes as children and today as adults.
Target Audience
Educators and administrators interested in understanding students’ individual enrollment and retention needs could benefit from attending this session. The study conducted helps to understand differences in delayed enrollment among 158 undergraduate college students by considering their academic choices and surroundings as a minor and adult. Variables used to assess predictors for delayed enrollment included: traditional and non-traditional age, parental status, socioeconomic status, and the academic credentials of people closest to you. Indices were developed to assess enrollment choices as a minor, enrollment choices as an adult, and surroundings as an adult.
Learning Outcomes
Learners will understand three outcomes:
1) Can the level of encouragement given to enroll in college when you were a child, be an indicator of your age to enroll in college?
2) Can students' academic environments when they were children or an adult, be an indicator of their age to enroll in college?
3) Can students' parental status, socioeconomic status, age or educational levels of those closest to them be predictors for enrollment?
Session Description
Educators often understand that the enrollment needs of non-traditional aged students differ, but how their needs differ is somewhat unclear particularly when considering their parental status and academic credentials of those who are closest to them. This session will explore differences among students by age, parental status, socioeconomic status, and academic standing of those closest to the student in an effort to clarify enrollment choices. The survey will be shared for participants to consider using the assessment instrument at assessing their students. Discussions will include how participants may find the distribution and analysis of the survey helpful to better understand their students' enrollment needs.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
Friday November 8
Primary Presenter
Elyse Lovell, University of Montana - Helena
Work Title
Psychology Instructor