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Peer reviewedFeldman, Kenneth A.; Smart, John C.; Ethington, Corinna A. – Journal of Higher Education, 2004
This article continues a series of analyses using the "theory of careers" developed by John Holland to examine the patterns of student stability and change inherent in the college experience--as part of an effort to understand the satisfaction, learning, and retention of college students. The underlying basis of Holland's theory is that human…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Student Interests, Interaction, Educational Environment
Download full textSmart, John C. – 1996
Academic departments exert a powerful influence on students by recruitment of distinctive personality types into academic disciplines, and by a socialization process in which departments reward students for the display of attitudes in accordance with the norms of their disciplines. This study examined the differential patterns of student growth…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Educational Environment, Higher Education
