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Learner Persistence

Online Resources on persistence
compiled by Andy Nash and Janet Isserlis
  • Persistence Among Adult Education Students Panel (streaming video)
    This panel discussion focuses on persistence in ABE, ESOL, and GED programs, and features a NCSALL study entitled, Supporting the Persistence of Adult Basic Education Students. This report examines student persistence in adult education programs. It presents a working definition of persistence, examines existing research, and describes NCSALL’s 3-phase study of factors that support and inhibit persistence.
    Outside Linkhttp://www.nifl.gov

  • A good overview/introduction to the topic: Persistence: Helping Adult Education Students Reach Their Goals by John Comings, through NCSALL:
    http://www.ncsall.net
    .

  • NCSALL-The National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy – additional research, reports and other citations on persistence Outside Linkcan be found here and specifically on student persistence:
    http://www.ncsall.net


    see also, in Focus on Basics, the online journal of NCSALL research, written specifically for adult education practitioners:
    Outside Linkhttp://www.ncsall.net

  • Adult Literacy Education Wiki – Learner Persistence
    Outside Linkhttp://wiki.literacytent.org

  • Beyond the checklist: Using reflective practice to remove barriers in family and community literacy by Cheryl Brown and Wendell Dryden – while specifically examining an intergenerational literacy project, the article poses a number of considerations useful in thinking about learner persistence across learning spheres:
    http://www.literacyjournal.ca


  • California Adult Learning Persistence Project
    http://www.adultlearnerpersistence.org


  • The Change Agent issue #25 on adults taking action to stay in school
    (if you are new to the website, start here: Outside Linkhttp://www.nelrc.org to get a password).
    Outside Linkhttp://www.nelrc.org

  • Distance learning for the adult learner: Improving persistence and effectiveness Bartlett, et al, California Department of Education, 2005
    Outside Linkhttp://www.cdlponline.org

  • Learner Persistence in Adult Basic Education -
    Outside LinkCalifornia Adult Education Research Digest, January, 2005

  • Managed Enrollment: An opportunity to reinvigorate the ABE experience – Alisa Povenmire, Massachusetts Coalition for Adult Education, 2006
    Outside Linkhttp://www.mcae.net

  • National Adult Education Professional Development Consortium – learner persistence resources:
    http://www.naepdc.org/resource_library


  • Responding to people's lives, Yvon Appleby and David Barton 2008 -
    One of a series of practitioner guides addressing teaching practice, often related to supporting persistence:
    Outside Linkhttp://www.nrdc.org.uk

  • Stick with it! Motivating Skills for Life learners to persist, progress and achieve - UK based initiative focused on learner persistence Outside Linkhttp://www.stickwithit.org.uk/


  • Student Persistence in Adult ESOL Classroom (from Pearson Education; read critically)
    Outside Linkhttp://www.pearsonlongman.com (Outside LinkHTML Version)

  • Adult Learner Persistence - resources from the New England Literacy Resource Center's research into and learning about persistence

    Outside Linkhttp://www.nelrc.org/persist/




For more information about persistence efforts in Rhode Island, please contact janet_isserlis@brown.edu.


   Page last updated: Thursday, November 5, 2009