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Informal
Interviews and Focus Groups While our primary objective was to collect the impressions
of individuals who have chosen not to participate in adult education
programming, to do this, we needed to understand the attitudes and perspectives
of adult education providers and current students.
In addition to the data collected in each site from adult education
providers and community leaders, we also conducted an informal phone survey of
adult education providers (1999 DAEL grant recipients). Adult education
providers responsible for 193 sites across Kentucky were contacted.
Through this survey we gathered information regarding the hours and
locations of adult education programs, general demographics of students served,
and the average distances students traveled.
This data provided background for our interviews and helped us understand
how typical adult education programs were in the target sites.
We also asked providers to share, based on their experiences, what they
believed to be the causes of non-participation.
We asked the same questions of current adult education students in focus
group interviews conducted in three of the research sites.
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