Attendance Regularity of Adult Learners: an Examination of Content and Structural Factors

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Abstract
This exploratory study investigated attendance regularity of adult learners enrolled in the Chinese University extramural courses from the perspective of content and structural processes. Corre lational analysis of questionnaire data revealed that degree of course understanding, need-fulfillment, approachability of the instructor, and amount of informal and formal interaction were all positively and significantly related to attendance rate whereas sociability of classmates and attendance rate were negatively and significantly related. F-tests from step-wise multiple linear regres sion analysis indicated that none of these factors made any special contribution in explaining attendance, though their relative shares could still be detected.