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Sax, Linda J.; Astin, Alexander W.; Korn, William S.; Mahoney, Kathryn M. – 1996
The 31st annual report of national normative data on college freshmen is part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program's longitudinal study to assess the effects of college on students. Data are based on 251,232 entering students at 494 of the nation's two- and four-year colleges and universities in Fall, 1996. The normative data are…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Freshmen, Diversity (Institutional), Grade Inflation
Sax, Linda J.; Astin, Alexander W.; Korn, William S.; Mahoney, Kathryn M. – 1997
The 32nd annual report of national normative data on college freshmen is part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program's longitudinal study to assess the effects of college on students. Data are based on 252,082 entering students at 464 of the nation's two- and four-year colleges and universities in Fall, 1997. The normative data are…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Freshmen, Diversity (Institutional), Grade Inflation
Download full textAstin, Alexander W. – 1990
This report presents a national profile of black college freshmen in 1989-90 and shows how these students have changed based on the past 19 surveys (1971-1989), using data on 16,000-20,000 black freshmen from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program. The study focuses on a wide variety of characteristics of black college freshmen: family…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Behavior Patterns, Black Students
Peer reviewedAstin, Alexander W. – Review of Higher Education, 1998
Data from an annual national survey of college freshmen indicate the women's movement has had dramatic effects on educational aspirations, career plans, behavior, and values of young women entering college and equally dramatic effects on attitudes of both men and women toward women's roles. One consequence is that current male and female freshmen…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, College Freshmen, College Students
Astin, Alexander W.; And Others – 1980
Factors influencing students' choice of institutions are examined in Part A of the SISFAP studies. The principal empirical base of the study consists of a large-scale longitudinal data file that assesses students' college choices at three time points: the beginning of the 11th grade, mid-way through the 12th grade, and college entry. Multivariate…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, College Applicants
Astin, Alexander W.; And Others – 1981
The fifteenth annual report of national normative data on characteristics of students entering college as first-time, full-time freshmen is presented as part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program. The 1980 normative data are based on responses from 187,124 freshmen entering 355 institutions, of which 19 were new and 336 old…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Black Colleges, Career Planning, Church Related Colleges
