Putting a Price Tag on Learning

Putting a Price Tag on Learning:
The financial and non-financial costs to Adult Learners on PEI
December, 2005

Dear Adult Learner,

My name is Angela Larter. I am an Adult Education instructor with Holland College in Summerside. I am taking a course at UPEI and want to complete a small study with adult learners on PEI as part of that course.

I would like to ask brief questions about:

the financial and non-financial costs of coming back to school
the supports you have as you come back to school
the impact of your costs on your future goals.

I am inviting you to take approximately 20 minutes to answer some questions to help me find this information. Please do not put your name on the survey. Please understand that your participation is voluntary. The completed surveys shall be stored in a locked filing cabinet and only my professor, Dr. Ray Doiron, and I will see them. I will be using the information to write a short report. I will make sure that no one person or site will be singled out in the report.

Thank you for taking the time to think about my questions and complete the survey. Your answers and comments are important to me. I hope to better understand how the costs of returning to school affects adults on PEI.

Please feel free to contact me at 888-6495 or by email at alarter@hollandc.pe.ca. My Faculty Advisor for this project is Dr. Ray Doiron at UPEI. You may contact him at 566-0694 if you have any questions. Ethics approval for the study was given by the Faculty of Education at UPEI. If you have any questions about the ethics, contact Dr. Liz deFreitas at 566-0731.

Best of luck in your studies.

Sincerely,

Angela Larter