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ACT, Inc., 2016
"The Condition of College and Career Readiness" looks at the progress of the 2016 ACT®-tested graduating class relative to college and career readiness. This state briefing begins with statistics in the following categories for Washington: performance, STEM, career readiness, impact, behaviors that impact access and opportunity,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, Benchmarking
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Ingels, Steven J.; Dalton, Ben – National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
This report provides a first look at selected findings from the first follow-up of the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09). HSLS:09 focuses on understanding students' trajectories from the beginning of high school into higher education and the workforce. The core research questions for the study explore secondary to postsecondary…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Grade 9, High School Students, Mathematics Achievement
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Ingels, Steven J.; Dalton, Ben; Holder, Tommy E., Jr.; Lauff, Erich; Burns, Laura J. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
This First Look presents findings from the base-year survey of the newly launched High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), the first round of a study that will follow a ninth-grade cohort through high school and into their postsecondary years. HSLS:09 is the fifth in a series of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) high school…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Grade 9, High School Students, Student Characteristics
Bowles, Roy T.; Slocum, Walter L. – 1967
The purpose of this report is to present data concerning the educational and occupational aspirations and expectations of boys and girls who were juniors and seniors in a sample of 14 Washingto n high schools in the 1965-66 school year. During the winter and spring of 1966, juniors and seniors completed questionnaires as part of a study of…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Educational Attitudes, Educational Planning, High School Students
Vasquez, James A.; And Others – 1977
The study explored the problems and preferences Chicano high school juniors and seniors perceived with regard to attending college. Of the 458 respondents, 430 were high school juniors and seniors, 11 were graduates who did not enroll in college during the 1976 fall, and 14 were college freshmen. Data were collected using three questionnaires:…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, College Bound Students, Educational Attitudes
Slocum, Walter L. – 1968
Previous research studies were reviewed, and hypotheses relating to educational aspiration and occupational choice were developed. Information on educational aspirations and expectations was then obtained from a random sample of students enrolled in 1964-65 in 30 rural Washington high schools. Farm versus non-farm student differences were examined…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Ecological Factors, Educational Experience, High School Students