Dear Group,
I am currently researching valence-instrumentality-expectancy levels as they relate to adult literacy student persistence. Most of the applicable documentation using Vroom's(1964) theory is in the field of accounting education at the university level for sample population. My dilemma is that my literature in this area of theoretical framework is dated...Miller (1967), Boshier (1972), Rubenson (1977), Cross (1980), and Beder and Valentine (1990) and NCSALL articles on motivation (1997).I have read Merriam and Cafferella's (1999)"Learning in Adulthood" and Sean Courtney's Why Adults Learn: Towards a Theory of Participation in Adult Education" (1992), Fingeret and Drennon's (1997) "Literacy for Life" and Taylor, Marienau, and Fiddler's (2000)"Developing Adult Learners". These text have very good sections on motivation for adult learners. I just have a hard time thinking that no substantive quantitative data has been done in the last 7 years in this area. Any help would be appreci!
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Jeff