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Taylor, Elizabeth; And Others – 1980
The reason that Great Britain's Open University (OU) students elected to study D101, the Social Science Foundation Course, was studied to discover their aims, expectations, and attitudes to the Open University and the course. Attention is directed to the first interview conducted before the course started to assess student orientations to study,…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Awareness, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Bisconti, Ann S.; Astin, Helen S. – 1973
This nationwide survey statistically documents the academic aspirations and achievements of students entering 248 institutions of higher learning in 1961. A second group of students entering in 1966 were chosen for comparison. The major portion of the study is devoted to statistical tables compiling the results of questionnaires completed by the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Biological Sciences, Educational Finance