This article examines the relationship between preadult factors and both credit-bearing and noncredit forms of adult education. By using loglinear techniques for analyzing data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972, this study shows the relationship between five preadulthood variables and participation in both credit and noncredit forms of education. The results offer strong support for the propositions that participation in adult education is the result of processes occurring throughout the life span, and that the processes leading to participation in credit and noncredit forms differ.
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Cervero et al. (1990) studied this question.