TY - JOUR
T1 - A factor analytic test of houle's typology of professionals' modes of learning
AU - Cervero, Ronald M.
AU - Dimmock, Katherine H.
PY - 1987/9
Y1 - 1987/9
N2 - Houle has proposed a typology of professionals' modes of continuing learning. Three modes are hypothesized: inquiry, instruction, and performance. The purpose of the study was to test the adequacy of this typology with a population of staff nurses in a community hospital. A 47-item instrument that has been shown to be a valid and reliable measure of the universe of nurses' continuing learning activities was used. The survey was administered to the same population twice, one year apart. Oblique factor analysis produced a four-factor solution for the data collected in each year. The four factors were labelled Inquiry, Performance, Group Instruction, and Self-instruction. A revised typology is proposed and an explanatory framework for the new typology is given.
AB - Houle has proposed a typology of professionals' modes of continuing learning. Three modes are hypothesized: inquiry, instruction, and performance. The purpose of the study was to test the adequacy of this typology with a population of staff nurses in a community hospital. A 47-item instrument that has been shown to be a valid and reliable measure of the universe of nurses' continuing learning activities was used. The survey was administered to the same population twice, one year apart. Oblique factor analysis produced a four-factor solution for the data collected in each year. The four factors were labelled Inquiry, Performance, Group Instruction, and Self-instruction. A revised typology is proposed and an explanatory framework for the new typology is given.
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U2 - 10.1177/0001848187037003001
DO - 10.1177/0001848187037003001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84970415505
SN - 0741-7136
VL - 37
SP - 125
EP - 139
JO - Adult Education Quarterly
JF - Adult Education Quarterly
IS - 3
ER -