RESEARCH Understanding the Experiences of Adult Learners: Content Analysis of Focus Group Data Jeff Zacharakis‚ Marie Steichen‚ and Gabriela Diaz de Sabates‚ Kansas State University Dianne Glass‚ Kansas Board of Regents ABSTRACT In this qualitative research study‚ we sought to better understand the experiences of adult learners in adult education centers. We conducted eight focus groups with 104 adult education students from 25 adult learning centers. Five groups were made up of English-speaking
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sports park is old and falling apart. We need to improve the baseball field because the bases are gone and the fence is falling down. Get a better basket ball court because the hoops are getting worse and worse by the day. The nets on the hoops aren’t even there they have fallen off and the wind blew them away. The reason why we need to improve the sports park is because some people go to the park to practice for a basket ball game or baseball game. Some people like to go there and play games with their
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“The Mice That Set Elephants Free” (#4‚ 5‚ 7‚ 8‚ & 9) pg. 386 4. Spot’s purpose of telling them this story is to show them that they do not need to be big to be friends with him. Even someone very tiny‚ like those mice‚ can help out in a huge way or matter if they all get together and try. Spot parallels this story because he is using the mice to get out of captivity in his own way as he wants to stay with him so he does not have to go back to the people who happen to own him. 5. Spot‚ Swift‚ and
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while value of 0 is assigned to respondents not agreeing the traffic-free proposal. The logistic regression analysis in this dissertation was used to predict the outcome of the acceptance of traffic-free zone (value of 1) based on various attributes. To analyse the variable which is categorical such as trip purpose‚ one category within each independent variable was assigned as reference category so regression coefficient could be given for each other category in the independent
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Department of Education Office of Federal Student Aid Data Migration Roadmap: A Best Practice Summary Version 1.0 Final Draft April 2007 Data Migration Roadmap Table of Contents Table of Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................ 1 1.0 Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Background
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Data Processing All through the different stages in civilization‚ man has always tried to look for ways to simplify work and to solve problems more efficiently. Many problems involved numbers and quantities‚ so man started looking for easier ways to count‚ to add‚ subtract‚ multiply and divide. As society has grown in both size and complexity‚ so have data that are generated by it through time. Definition of Terms Data – is defined as any collection of facts. Thus sales reports‚ inventory
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Management in Business-Time value of money-Risk and Return- Risk diversification. Module II Long-term investment decisions – Capital budgeting‚ Different techniques –Traditional and modern methods (DCF method) – Capital Rationing – Risk Analysis in Capital budgeting – An overview of Cost of Capital. Module III Financing decisions – Operating‚ Financial and combined leverage – Capital Structure – Meaning and importance- Theories of capital structure – Net income‚ Net operating income
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DATA INTEGRATION Data integration involves combining data residing in different sources and providing users with a unified view of these data. This process becomes significant in a variety of situations‚ which include both commercial (when two similar companies need to merge their databases and scientific (combining research results from different bioinformatics repositories‚ for example) domains. Data integration appears with increasing frequency as the volume and the need to share existing data explodes
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I remember that day like if it was yesterday. I had school that day. I knew i had a baseball game that day. I was excited the whole day because baseball has been in my life since i was 3 years old. I always try to keep make my day happy when i know i have a game that way i know don’t have to worry about anything during my game that can distract me. That day was a really hot day‚ but it was a good thing we always play at night. We always have to get to the game one hour before the game starts so
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Chapter 12 ********** 22‚ 32‚ 40 Evan Lee Turner #22 Random samples of five were selected from each of three populations. The sum of squares total was 100. The sum of squares due to the treatments was 40. a. Set up the null hypothesis and the alternate hypothesis. b. What is the decision rule? Use the .05 significance level. c. Complete the ANOVA table. What is the value of F? d. What is your decision regarding the null hypothesis?
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