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Hossler, Don; Maple, Sue – 1991
This exploratory study sought to compare the characteristics, attitudes and postsecondary knowledge of two groups of Indiana ninth grade students, those who plan to continue their education after high school and those who indicate that they are undecided about their post secondary plans. The study used data from a longitudinal study of college…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Family Characteristics, Goal Orientation, Grade 9
Download full textLisack, J. P. – 1980
Selected data from three of the latest summary reports of the College Board's Admissions Testing Program (ATP) are presented. They are: College Bound Seniors, 1980-National, Midwestern, and Indiana. Data including Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores, the Test of Standard Written English (TSWE) scores, and information from the Student Descriptive…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Analysis
Shepard, Linda L.; And Others – 1992
This paper presents and discusses longitudinal data collected through surveys completed by students (n=1,545) in the 9th and 11th grades to determine what factors influence a student's change in plans for postsecondary education. Twenty-one Indiana high schools were selected to ensure that the sample proportionally represented students from all…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Attitude Change, Career Planning, Expectation
Purdue Univ., Lafayette, IN. Office of Manpower Studies. – 1975
The objectives of the study were to help high school seniors make occupational choices, develop their employment and educational plans, and to provide data for school personnel and for the planning of postsecondary vocational training activities. Approximately 50,000 Indiana high school seniors were surveyed as to their educational and employment…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, College Choice, Grade 12
Hossler, Don; And Others – 1991
This study examined a longitudinal data set (9th through 12th grade students from Indiana) to pose questions about the importance students place on certain college and university attributes as part of their college choice process. Using factor analysis, analysis of variance, and discriminant analysis on data about a representative sample of 110…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Choice, Decision Making, Family Characteristics
Lisack, J. P. – 1981
Educational and vocational plans and changing characteristics of Indiana high school seniors from 1966 to 1980 were studied. In 1966, 1969, 1972, and 1975, questionnaires were mailed to all public and private high schools in the state, while in 1980, a stratefied random sample was used. The response rate of the first four surveys was 54 percent or…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, Career Planning, College Bound Students
