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Download full textBayer, Alan E.; Dutton, Jeffrey E. – 1975
This paper reports on the results of an ongoing large-scale nationally representative sample of college students, which provides time series data on attitudes for a broad array of issues. A representative sample of between 250,000 and 350,000 freshmen, entering more than 300 institutions throughout the nation, was surveyed each fall (1967-1974) by…
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Peer reviewedBayer, Alan E.; Dutton, Jeffrey E. – Journal of Higher Education, 1976
A comparative historical assessment, based on annual national surveys of new college students since the mid-1960s, fails to support the popular characterization of recent college students as being more apathetic and more conservative than their predecessors. There has been a trend away from both extremes in political identification. (Editor/JT)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Students, Higher Education, History
Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E. – US Department of Health and Human Services, 2004
This is the second volume in a two-volume set, presenting findings from the Monitoring the Future study. The first volume presents findings from American secondary students in grades 8, 10, and 12. This second volume contains findings from American college students, their age peers not in college, young adult high school graduates through age 30…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, High School Graduates, Futures (of Society), Grants
Peer reviewedKoch, Gregory E.; Nelson, Karen H. – Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 1999
A study used Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) data to examine attitude trends in the Austin College (Texas) freshman classes from 1985-94. Longitudinal and cross-sectional trends are compared to distinguish period, age, and cohort effects. The effect Austin College has had on student attitudes is discussed. Use of CIRP data is…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, College Environment, College Freshmen, College Students
Hepburn, Mary A. – 1984
This examination of political and social attitudes of American youth in the 1980's begins with a comparison of the youth of the 1960's with the youth of the 1970's. Results from four major studies are presented and a composite picture of youth in the eighties is presented. Findings show that the personal and professional values of American…
Descriptors: Adolescents, College Students, Comparative Analysis, High School Students
Trow, Martin – 1977
Trends in American higher education between 1969 and 1975 are reported based on surveys in those two years by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education. In general, the late 1960's saw widespread turbulence and disruption directed both at educational forms on campus and changes in American foreign policy. This movement was marked by a political…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Attitude Change, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty
