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Frank, Jean M. – 1991
In 1991, a mail survey was conducted of all students who received an associate degree or certificate from Howard Community College in Maryland (HCC) during fiscal year 1990. Telephone calls were made to those who did not return the survey, resulting in an adjusted response rate of 58%. A response rate of 52% was achieved for a subsequent survey of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Associate Degrees, Charts, College Graduates
Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1990
In response to state legislation calling for a comprehensive report on the transferability of vocational courses from high school to community colleges and four-year institutions, questionnaires were sent to all of Michigan's 29 community colleges and 15 universities. The survey sent to universities focused on the extent to which a college…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Advanced Placement, Articulation (Education), College Applicants
Owsley, Jean – 1983
A pilot project, entitled Project Senior, was developed and implemented to provide innovative educational programing for older adults in the small rural setting of Thermopolis, Wyoming. Included among the major project activities were the following: a door-to-door survey of 759 persons over 55 years old to determine those courses most desired by…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Agency Cooperation
Miguel, Richard J. – 1982
A study focused on the relationships of (1) youth's perceptions of hiring and disciplinary standards, (2) their work supervisors' reports of those standards, and (3) selected antecedents and employment outcomes associated with employability development programs. Through questionnaires, data were collected at the beginning and end of the 1981-82…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Attitude Change, Career Education, Cooperative Education
Armstrong, Jan – 1983
The Vocational Services for Displaced Homemakers and Re-entry Women project was developed and implemented at Miami-Dade Community College in Florida in order to respond to the special needs of displaced homemakers as they begin the transition from homemaker to wage earner. Provided during the project were support services to enable displaced…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Coping, Counseling Services, Displaced Homemakers
Brennan, Mark; Brennan, Roslin E. – 1984
A study examined the literacy needs and activities of prison inmates in Australia. To gather data for the study, the researchers interviewed and administered questionnaires to 62 inmates from five Australian prisons. This report consists primarily of the comments and views of the individual prisoners who were clients, potential clients, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation
Wells, Robert N. – 1989
A survey was conducted to obtain more reliable data on Native Americans in higher education and to ascertain the factor contributing to their success and failure in college. A questionnaire was mailed to 79 colleges and universities serving the largest percentage of Native Americans in the United States. A total of 33 valid responses were…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, American Indians, College Curriculum
Field Research Corp., San Francisco, CA. – 1986
A three-phase study was conducted in California to assess the impact of a mandatory fee imposed in 1985 on enrollments in the California community colleges as measured by changes in students' ethnicity, income, and academic load, and changes in enrollment in college non-credit education. A benchmark study conducted in spring 1984 prior to the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Day Students, Enrollment Influences
Calman, Ruth C. – 1984
As a follow-up to a 1981-82 formative evaluation of Scarborough's (Ontario) cooperative education program, an outcomes-oriented study of the program was conducted in 1983. The study, which involved surveys of cooperative education and control group students, employers, teachers, and parents, focused on program outcomes related to student attitudes…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes
Astin, Alexander W.; And Others – 1986
National normative data on characteristics of students entering college as first-time, full-time freshmen are presented, based on results of the fall 1986 Cooperative Institutional Research Program survey. The data are weighted to represent the population of freshmen. Extensive statistical data are reported separately for women and men, and for 37…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Females
Rock, Donald A.; And Others – 1986
This report is the second of two technical reports produced as part of the Study of Excellence in High School Education. These studies are: (1) a cross-sectional analysis comparing 1972 high school seniors and their schools with 1980 high school seniors and their schools; and (2) a longitudinal analysis relating growth and development of 1980 high…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Achievement Gains, Dropouts
El-Khawas, Elaine – 1986
Trends on college campuses within the United States as of 1985 are reported, with attention to early campus responses to national reports calling for educational reform. Also considered are faculty hiring practices, perceptions about institutional status, college linkages with business and industry, changes in enrollment, and the use of long-range…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, College Faculty, College Students
Slark, Julie; And Others – 1987
A study was conducted by the Learning Assessment Retention Consortium (LARC) to describe the outcomes (i.e., goal satisfaction, retention, and skills acquisition) of students enrolled in remedial English writing courses in a sample of California community colleges, and to develop an evaluation model which could be used in community colleges to…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Community Colleges, Evaluation Methods
Sanyal, Bikas C. – 1987
The relationship between higher education and employment (particulary underemployment and unemployment) is discussed in terms of a synthesis of 21 case studies of developing and developed nations. The countries discussed are: Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Egypt, Federal Republic of Germany, Malaysia, Pakistan, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Case Studies, College Graduates, College Planning
Fisher, Pamila – 1984
Designed as a resource and aid for faculty and administrators at Modesto Junior College (MJC), this report provides an assessment of the external environment of the college and of its mission and goals. Section I introduces the futurist perspective and assumptions serving as the basis for the report. Section II provides a summary of an extensive…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Planning, Community Attitudes, Community Colleges
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