I conducted a survey in order to determine whether or not the cultural values shared by parents from a poor mountain town in West Virginia discourage high school students from pursuing a college education. The results suggest that the persistence of poverty in rural Webster County can be attributed to the region's traditional set of cultural…

AN INVESTIGATION WAS MADE INTO THE DETERMINATION OF THE EDUCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL CHOICES OF PUBLIC SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS. SIX INDIVIDUAL STUDIES WERE CONDUCTED, EACH DEVOTED TO SPECIFIC QUESTIONS INVOLVING DETAILED OBJECTIVES, PROCEDURES, ANALYSES, FINDINGS, AND SPECIFIC IMPLICATIONS. THE QUESTIONS WERE--(1) HOW STABLE ARE VARIOUS…

Western Michigan University conducted a survey of high school students' attitudes toward college attendance. A questionnaire was mailed to the Director of Guidance in Michigan high schools with an enrollment of 1,000 or more. In all, 183 questionnaires were mailed and 85 were returned. They emphasized student attitudes toward college attendance…

Describes the collaborative effects of a community college and public school system in offering a joint enrollment program for high school students. Describes background of the program, criteria for admission, program implementation, program advantages and disadvantages, and the challenge for the future. (ABB)

Access to family-supporting jobs now requires education or training beyond high school, but college is becoming less affordable and the education "pipeline" from high school to and through college remains shockingly inefficient, despite the reform efforts of the past several decades. According to one study, for every hundred students who enter…

Subjects were 20,367 high school senior males who participated in the 1960 data collection phase of Project TALENT and who responded to a 1961 followup questionnaire. Biodata obtained from a 394 item inventory were categorized in 14 areas revealing that the categories do not differentiate attenders from nonattenders according to ability levels.…

This article is based on a paper read at the annual meeting of the California Education Research Association, Berkeley, California, March 1968.

A questionnaire was administered to 5,175 seniors in 101 randomly selected high schools to measure the effects of familial economic factors, proximity to higher education institutions, scholastic standing, peer values and influences, familial values and influences, impact of the secondary school guidance program, social class and sex on plans to…

The U.S. Department of Education is undertaking a study of credit-based transition programs (CBTPs) called the Accelerating Student Success project. The study is being carried out by the Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University (CCRC); and DTI Associates, Inc. The purpose of the study is to investigate the ways in…

Studied the top 10 percent of the 1979 high school graduating seniors in Oregon. Reported patterns relating to post-high school activities, colleges attended, scholastic aptitude, post-high school plans, high school achievement, and greatest influence on post-high school plans. (RC)

Study finds that lower SES high school graduates from metropolitan areas experience more difficulty in attaining college degrees that higher status students. Also, minorities from predominantly minority high schools have more difficulties than minorities from predominantly White schools. (DM)

In the current study, we examined factors that influence rural West Virginia high school students' college attendance decisions. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory of human development as a theoretical basis, we studied direct and indirect influences of environmental factors upon the academic aspirations of rural Appalachian youth.…

This report summarizes the following results from Austin Independent School District's student graduating class of 2006: student demographic information, results from their High School Exit Survey responses, their postsecondary enrollment data, and students' academic performance data.

An analysis of data from a national longitudinal study of high school and college students revealed a consistent relationship between positive self-image in high school and both higher college-going rates and higher grades in postsecondary education. Implications for teachers, student personnel services, administrators, and policymakers are…