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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2025
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Kevin M. Roessger

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Associate Professor

Also affiliated: University of Wisconsin System (2012); University of Wisconsin–Madison (2012); University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (2010–2013); Seattle University (2013–2016); Texas A&M University (2019)

Faculty Researcher

12 h-index 40 pubs 471 cited

  • Attitude of Health Personnel
  • Career Choice
  • Osteopathic Medicine
  • Students, Medical
  • Rural Health Services
  • Adult
  • Arkansas
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Professional Practice Location
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Young Adult

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Kevin M. Roessger's research examines adult learning, higher education, and community engagement. His work investigates factors influencing adult participation in public universities, including the role of proximity and online learning. Roessger also studies how educational strategies can foster attitudinal change and reflective thinking in adults. His publications explore the predictors of positive attitudes toward rural practice among female osteopathic medical students and the impact of unemployment and university proximity on community college enrollment in Arkansas.

His scholarship includes research on scientific literacy and its mediation of formal education's effect on public support for science, considering gender differences. Roessger has also contributed to understanding training needs for professionals, such as certified clinical data managers, by analyzing exam results. His work aims to establish adult learning sciences through a shared scientific attitude and provide practical guidance for evaluating social change initiatives using quantitative methods in Excel. Roessger's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 12, 40 total publications, and 465 total citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 12
  • Publications: 40
  • Citations: 471

Selected Publications

  • Learning to support science: gender differences in how scientific literacy mediates formal education’s effect on U.S. adults’ public support for science (2025)
    Frontiers in Education 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Predictors of a positive attitude towards rural practice in female osteopathic medical students (2024)
    Journal of Osteopathic Medicine DOI OpenAlex
  • A Longitudinal Ecological Study of How Unemployment and University Proximity Shaped Adult Community College Enrollment in Arkansas from 1999 Through 2018 (2023)
    Community College Journal of Research and Practice 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • A Practitioner’s Guide to Evaluating Social Change Initiatives for Adults Using Quantitative Methodologies in Excel (2023)
    Adult Learning 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Attitudes Matter: Examining How Teaching Strategies for Attitudinal Change Help Adults Value Reflection and Calibrate Their Reflective Thinking (2023)
    Adult Education Quarterly 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Establishing the adult learning sciences through a shared scientific attitude: A vision for the Future (2022)
    New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Bridging the Distance? How Proximity and Online Learning Shape Communities’ Adult Participation in Public Universities (2022)
    The Journal of Continuing Higher Education 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Informing training needs for the revised certified clinical data manager (CCDMTM) exam: analysis of results from the previous exam (2022)
    JAMIA Open 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Mattering Is the Minimum: An Editorial From <i>AEQ</i> ’s Editors (2020)
    Adult Education Quarterly 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Multi-level factors affecting immediate and delayed concept recall in concept mapping with adult learners (2020)
    Educational Psychology 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Assessment Strategies for Reflective Learning in the Workplace: A Pragmatic Approach (2020)
    Adult Learning 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Self-directed learning and retrieval practice: building a bridge through functional contextualism (2020)
    International Journal of Lifelong Education 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Rethinking andragogical assumptions in the global age: how preferences for andragogical learning vary across people and cultures (2020)
    Studies in Continuing Education 25 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Welcome From the New Editors (2020)
    Adult Education Quarterly 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Testing Andragogical Assumptions Across Countries: A Multilevel Analysis of the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies Motivation-to-Learn and Elaboration Scales (2019)
    Proceedings of the 2019 AERA Annual Meeting DOI OpenAlex

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