Obtaining Factors of What Was Acquired through Questionnaire Aimed at Graduates of an Educational Institute
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.52731/lir.v005.450Keywords:
adult learner, factor analysis, factor loading, questionnaireAbstract
Radical alternations of social structures have brought about the situation where the importance of relearning new knowledge and skills for adults is becoming increasingly prioritized. However, various hindrances have put Japan behind other countries when it comes to adult learners. There-fore, our study aims to analyze the fundamental factors of study motivation of adult learners and to grasp what drives their learning. Based on the prior works using a questionnaire aimed at gen-eral working adults, in this paper we create a questionnaire targeting the graduate students of our affiliations. After aggregation of the questionnaires, factor analysis was applied to the 29 ques-tions about what was acquired during studying to obtain five factors.
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