Demand for adult education Changzhou TV Report

Abstract: Investigation reality, adult Education area by the pressure, there is a strong awareness of the academic Education, adult Education has a relatively broad market. But the school units in the Information communication, learning, learning outcomes and expectations improved student capacity and adults need to have a gap, I hope this survey can provide support for the improvement of teaching materials.

Keywords: Education Needs Adult Education

Changzhou Radio and TV University in the fall of 1999 began formal implementation of the "Central Radio and TV University Training Mode and Open Education" project, engaged in the adult of the specialist's degree education, the current open education students have close to 4,000 people. The survey Changzhou Open mainly targeted at students, with the brothers engaged in adult education institutions and personnel exchange market, field visits. The survey of more than 800 copies of questionnaires, 612 were recovered, of which 464 valid questionnaires. Through investigation and analysis, to adult students to find out the needs of academic education, providing support for the improvement of teaching materials. Likert scale used in the form of the questionnaire will be involved in adult education an important issue that the respondents were divided into "very great extent" 5 points, "a large extent," 4, "the general level of" 3, "a lesser extent," 2 points, "very small degree of" 1 point, and "not applicable" 0.


1 main findings:

The main demand for adult education:
(1) degree higher awareness. From the survey, 70% of respondents felt the pressure of educational attainment. 85% of the respondents want to receive adult education, including adult education has received 70%, from the job classification point of view, and business people want to participate in the highest proportion of academic education, followed by business management, self-employed.

(2) the purpose of academic education to career advancement and the work of the most significant transformation. In the seven candidate projects: career advancement, access to high-income, increased capacity, increased knowledge, profession or work needs, change jobs, to develop interpersonal communication to career advancement has the highest score was 3.76 points, followed by the conversion work for 3.04 minutes. from a job classification point of view, managers and business people tend to some business promotion, business practitioners and the other part of the corporate business people tend to switch jobs and the self-employed people do not have the pressure because, choose to increase capacity, the purpose of learning more knowledge.

(3) improving methods of education through the academic ability and professional competence expected more than the other, were 3.93 and 3.83. At this point the choice of the various occupational groups more similar, while improving management capacity at the request of society than other occupational the crowd slightly.

(4) to participate in adult education in learning the various obstacles on the performance of learners Comparison of the influence of the average. Lack of personal time and energy is limited; Information do not know, lack of guidance; education methods are not suitable; and the lack of the necessary policy support and the columns of the high cost of these scores were between 3.20 to 3.64. The comparison, educational methods and the Information is not suitable for do not understand the impact of the lack of relevant guidance is more apparent.

(5) tend to adapt to the way of teaching-learning, classroom teaching and typical case studies and lectures. The scores were 3.17,3.13,2.94. Management personnel tend to talk law, and business people on the network learning enthusiasm are higher than other groups.

(6) evaluation methods tend to study or course on design, social survey scores 3.38 and 3.24. Chosen to the state certification examination scores as an evaluation method of low, only 1.96.

(7) the factors that influence the choice of school, the enrollment promotional materials distributed by the school-site introduction to friends and family the highest scores were 3.56 and 3.48, the school enrollment and applicants television advertisements published in almost the same score, namely 2.37 and 2.32.

(8) the effect of academic education to be further improved. From the survey results, that have received academic education, evaluation of effects of adult average score of 2.84 points, failed to achieve the value. Nearly 60% of adults considered to have received impact on their academic education "small" and "very small." classification from the professional point of view, managers have the qualifications that the impact of education on their own "large" and higher than other groups.


2 Results and discussion

(1) teaching methods and teaching content should be adjusted accordingly. Formal schooling lasted long, with a strong systemic, learning content to slightly weak in terms of time, the curriculum should be strengthened updated. Adults tend to adapt to the way of teaching in learning, teaching and classroom discussions typical case, a strong performance out of the opening characteristics. In view of the purpose of academic education, adult learning is very clear and very realistic; adult life is very busy on a relatively small study time, not great certainty and flexibility; their perception, mechanical memory, imagination capability declined with age, but the observation, understanding, analytical skills and strong ability to solve problems; they have a rich life experience, strong independence and self-control force, and large individual differences. These features and content for adults to adapt to various forms of academic education can be provided, while educational institutions should take full account of this feature.

(2) evaluation methods and effect of the expected further increase of the space. Respondents prefer paper or curriculum design, evaluation of social surveys as a way of learning, adult education in the current examination-based evaluation methods form a greater differences. In view of the strong academic purpose of education, combined with the state certification exam features, not suitable for the state certification examinations as a general evaluation criteria, but will have certain qualifications related to alternative certification course, you can also some of the teaching content and the state's content certification examinations combined for the benefit of students.

Overall, the sample that the impact of adult education on their own level of "very big" and "large" and at the same time .. less than 20% should be in terms of learning methods to improve students ability, professional competence and social skills, etc. efforts.

(3) to help reduce the adult education of learners with learning disabilities. Survey shows lack of personal time and energy is limited; Information do not understand the lack of guidance; education methods are not suitable; and the lack of the necessary policy support and the high cost of this participate in academic aspects of adult education has certain limitations. In particular, educational methods and Information not suitable for do not understand the lack of guiding influence is more obvious. For adults these barriers should be created for its relaxed environment conducive to learning, particularly in information transmission and choice of study time to provide valuable assistance.

(4) Schools should strengthen market development. For a lot of adult education schools, and students do not know much on the types of schools, enrollment can learn from the survey distributed promotional materials the school site in the respondents selected school, the impact of level reached 3.56 points in the middle and upper levels, even more than the introduction of scores of friends and family even higher success rate of recommendation of friends and family, but the promotion of narrow. In addition to the TV and newspaper ads respondents were a certain extent. Schools can increase the number of marketing strategies, improving school awareness and increase understanding of the school community.


Annex 1:
The purpose of adult education mean and standard deviation of each item
Standard deviation of the average ranking program
Career advancement 3.76 1.28 1
1.1 6 2.53 for high income
Empowerment 2.76 0.95 4
Increase knowledge 2.71 0.99 5
Occupation or work needs 2.89 1.04 3
Conversion 2 3.04 1.11
Develop interpersonal 2.02 1.07 7

Annex 2:
Expectations of academic education through the learning capacity of the project mean and standard deviation
Standard deviation of the average ranking program
Three professional capacity 2.81 1.03
Professional competence 3.83 1.09 2
Method of capacity 1 3.93 1.09
Social competence 1.67 0.99 4

Annex 3:
Participate in adult education to learn the major obstacles mean and standard deviation of each item
Standard deviation of the average ranking program
Lack of personal time and energy limited 3.21 1.16 5

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Information do not understand the lack of relevant guidance 3.54 1.21 2
Lack the necessary policy support 3.42 1.22 3
The high cost of 3.39 1.06 4

Appendix 4:
Teaching methods conducive to learning mean and standard deviation of each item
Standard deviation of the average ranking program
Classroom teaching system, teaching content 2.91 0.98 4
Typical case study and discussion class 3.13 0.97 2
Lecture 3 2.94 1.06
E-learning 3.17 1.08 1
Self-learning 2.93 1.16 5

Annex 5:
Evaluation methods contribute to the academic study of the project mean and standard deviation
Standard deviation of the average ranking program
3.08 1.02 4 Assignments
The End of the unified organization of examination 3.17 1.05 3
Social Survey 1 3.38 1.03
Thesis or course design 2 3.24 1.05
The state certification exam 2.96 1.02 5
Annex 6:
Factors affecting choice of school mean and standard deviation of each item
Standard deviation of the average ranking program
Introduction to friends and family 2 3.48 1.11
Published in the newspaper advertising the school enrollment 2.37 1.17 3
TV ads published in the school enrollment 2.32 1.17 4
Promotional materials distributed by the school enrollment 3.56 1.21 1

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