“…Similar to the field of adult learning in general (Merriam, Caffarella, & Baumgartner, 2007), researchers who study adult literacy attrition issues often focus on the obstacles adults face while trying to access educational classes (e.g., Quigley, 1997; Ziegler, Bain, Bell, McCallum, & Brian, 2006). Obstacles often are characterized as situational (i.e., student-related issues, such as lack of childcare or transportation), institutional (i.e., program-related issues, such as scheduled class times), and dispositional (i.e., issues related to students’ beliefs and feeling about learning, such as self-esteem).…”