Adult learners are also found to highly favor lecturers who assess student needs in their teaching (m=4.40) as indicated in
Table 4. Adult learners also highly prefer that their lecturers help students diagnose the gap between their goals and their
present level of performance, meet informally with student to discuss their goals and experiences, meet individually with
student to help identify their educational needs and help student develop short range and long range objective when teaching.
The two items that scored the highest means are helping student diagnose the gap between their goals and their present level of performance (m=4.41), as well as meeting informally with student to discuss their goals and experiences (m=4.66).