ERIC Number: ED150341
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1977-Sep
Pages: 163
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The American Citizen: 11 Years after High School. Volume II.
Wise,.Lauress L.; And Others
A third follow-up survey of ninth and tenth grade Project Talent participants (1962 and 1963 high school classes) was done approximately eleven years after their expected graduation from high school to gather additional data on the educational, career, personal, and family experiences of these individuals and their reflections on the value of these experiences in relation to their present activities and plans. (Initiated in 1957, Project Talent is a longitudinal study regarding the educational, career, and personal experiences of a national sample of 400,000 men and women who were in high school in 1960.) Based on the responses of 49,000 individuals from the original sample of approximately 200,000 ninth and tenth grade students, data are summarized and interpreted according to three dimensions of the respondents' lives: education, work, and personal. The report includes findings that indicate (1) most of the respondents considered their high school experiences to have been at least adequate or fairly useful to them in their subsequent education or occupations, and (2) nearly one-fourth of the respondents still planned to obtain further education toward various degrees. (This report includes approximately eighty pages of tabular data summarizing the response frequencies for each survey questionnaire item. The ninth and tenth grade questionnaires are both appended.) (EM)
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Development, Career Development, Educational Research, Graduate Surveys, High School Graduates, Job Satisfaction, Job Skills, Lifelong Learning, National Surveys, Opinions, Participant Characteristics, Quality of Life, Relevance (Education), Secondary Schools, Tables (Data), Talent Development, Task Performance, Vocational Followup, Young Adults
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Sponsor: National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. Basic Skills Group.
Authoring Institution: American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA.
Identifiers - Location: United States
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