Roger Boshier
University of British Columbia
63 Papers
562 Citations
Roger Boshier is an academic researcher from University of British Columbia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Adult education & Lifelong learning. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 63 publications.
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Papers
Psychometric Properties of the Alternative Form of the Education Participation Scale
TL;DR: The Education Participation Scale (EPS) (A-form) measures motivational orientations and consists of seven 6-item factors comprised of items inductively derived from adult education participants as discussed by the authors.
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Best and worst dressed web courses: Strutting into the 21st century in comfort and style
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed a 43 item coding schedule to examine the accessibility, opportunities for interaction and attractiveness of 127 courses on the web and identified relationships between the 43 variables and issues pertaining to accessibility, interaction, and attractiveness with the aid of SPSS.
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Factor Analysts At Large: a Critical Review of the Motivational Orientation Literature
TL;DR: The methodology employed in fourteen motivational orienta tion studies is reviewed in this article, where all studies used either the Education Participation Scale, the Continuing Learning Orientation Index or the Reaso...
Socio-Psychological Factors in Electronic Networking
TL;DR: In this paper, Socio-psychological factors in electronic networking are discussed and discussed in the context of Lifelong education, and the authors propose a method to evaluate the sociability of electronic networks.
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Education Participation Scale Factor Structure for Older Adults
Roger Boshier,Gail Riddell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, older adults who had retired from the workforce and were enrolled in Vancouver adult education programs completed a short form of the Education Participation Scale (EPS), from which items known to be job-related had been deleted The new version of the EPS was factor analyzed to examine the extent to which previously identified factors would re-emerge.
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