The Career Education Center of the Harlandale Independent School District, San Antonio, Texas, has developed a K-12 series of career oriented curriculum guides (CE 001 005-16 and CE 001 075-84). This document outlines the proposed occupational followup study for students in grades 8-12 and for five years after leaving school. Personal data will be…

In the second year of an indepth evaluation of the vocational training offered to inmates of the Texas Department of Corrections, personal interviews were held with random samples of three treatment groups from the inmates released during the calendar year 1973. One group were graduates of the Windham School District Vocational Training courses;…

The study was conducted in Texas on a sample of 778 students to develop a process for administrative decision-making related to modifying or redirecting educational programs through collection and analysis of followup data obtained by questionnaires sent to former students. The document deals with a comparison of former students who took…

This document presents a compilation of possible formats for questions which can be used in preparing follow-up questionnaires for community/junior college students. The compilation resulted from the review and selection of pertinent questions from approximately fifty follow-up questionnaires obtained from sources both within and outside of Texas.…

This document is a digest of a final report presenting the view and experiences of former students in Texas high schools who left as graduates or dropouts during the school years 1963-64 and 1968-69. The study's objectives were to: (1) determine the extent to which work and studies or training beyond the high school were based on high school…

This first volume of a study of former Texas high school students who left as graduates or dropouts during the school years 1963-64 and 1968-69 presents a profile of the respondents and summarizes their opinions of their high school experiences. A sample of the State's 89 school districts was contacted by mail or interview, with 5,063 respondents…

The second volume of a study of former Texas high school students who left as graduates or dropouts during the school years 1963-64 and 1968-69 contains the study respondents' comments on school counselors, extracurricular activities, and dropouts, career goals, and employment experiences. Respondents who had contact with counselors questioned the…

The Texas Automated Student and Adult Learner Follow-Up System was developed as part of a larger effort to improve and coordinate the delivery of education and training of a skilled work force. The primary task of the Follow-Up System in Program Year 1993-94 was to obtain outcome information on the former students and participants of the work…

SIS (Student Followup Information System) has been developed by community/junior colleges in the State of Texas in response to the need for systematic and valid means of collecting followup data. SIS is composed of a series of data collection devices designed and tested in a multitude of different environments in various colleges throughout Texas.…

Volume 3 of a 3-volume study of former Texas high school students who left as graduates or dropouts during the school years 1963-64 and 1968-69 consists entirely of the tabulated responses to the questionnaires. Related documents are available in this issue as VT 021 091, VT 021 092, and VT 021 093. (MF)

This monograph contains follow-up information gathered by 54 Texas postsecondary institutions on 1975-76 occupational/technical graduates of both certificate and associate degree programs. Data are reported for 8,763 graduates from a total population of 13,958. The highlights were that: (1) 71% of the graduates were full-time employees in their…

The final report describes a Texas study to determine if differences in occupational achievement existed between those high school graduates who had been enrolled in vocational education programs and those who had not. A questionnaire was sent to 3,045 individuals who graduated from high school in 1970 in Austin, San Antonio, and Houston, to…

The Tex-SIS Follow-up system Employer Follow-up Survey involved four Texas community colleges, providing a statewide composite of employer data on the competency of occupational/technical graduates. The mailing list for prospective survey participants was derived from occupational/technical graduates' responses to a survey conducted in 1975-76. A…

During Fall 1977, a questionnaire was mailed to 8,455 first-year graduates of 26 Texas community colleges. Responses were received from 4,838 graduates (57%). Following a section presenting survey highlights in 25 graphs, the survey report presents aggregate statewide questionnaire responses expressed as numbers and percentages. Respondents are…