An adult-education market report, citing a 2014 Department of Labor synthesis, states that cohort membership contributes to adult learners' skill development and persistence¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2015 · checked against its sources 2026-10-15 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Belonging to a tightly knit, reliable group of student peers with a common purpose contributes to developing skills and persisting in courses and programs, per a 2014 Department of Labor synthesis. → DeSchryver 2015

Evidence¶

DeSchryver 2015¶

DeSchryver, David A., with Deirdre Dlugoleski. (2015). Accelerating Change: How education technology developers can jump-start a new adult education market. Digital Promise. https://digitalpromise.dspacedirect.org/items/29f39d7d-87f2-4e1e-920e-0c1ce86035cc

q2 · i? · theoretical · r2

The report attributes this to a 2014 Department of Labor report on job training that cites "a series of other corroborating reports"; the report itself conducts no new analysis. Attributed secondhand, so evidence is weak.

"belonging to a cohort, or a tightly knit, reliable group of student peers with a common purpose, contributes to developing skills and persisting in courses and programs."

Studies bearing on this claim¶

Do peers in the same situation and mentors around adult learners help them develop skills, persist and get through transitions? This table gathers the studies behind this claim and the 4 narrower claims that bear on it: 4 distinct studies (2 qualitative, 1 theoretical, 1 design), q2, 0 of 4 with an effect size coded. One row per study, codes as each entry records them; no effect is averaged and no verdict is drawn. Built by scripts/synthesize_claim.py from eval/synthesis/; a row that looks wrong is fixed on the claim it comes from.

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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