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Evans-Layng, Michael – 1985
An examination of the results of two surveys of the attitudes of entering freshmen at Muir College, University of California at San Diego (UCSD) is presented. The surveys were conducted in 1968 and 1984 in conjunction with national surveys coordinated by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program. Information is presented on: (1) changes in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Career Development, College Choice
Moore, Bernice – 1985
Student attrition at six South Carolina colleges was studied: three of the colleges were small, traditionally black, four-year private colleges, while three were mid-sized, public, four-year colleges, one of which was traditionally black. The sample of first-time freshmen consisted of 301 black males, 538 black females, 220 white males, and 319…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Black Colleges, Black Students
Willingham, Warren W.; Morris, Margaret – 1986
The college careers of students who had participated in the Advanced Placement Program (AP) in secondary school were studied, based on extensive information on 4,814 students who participated in the Personal Qualities Project, a longitudinal study in nine colleges and universities. The project included information on 1,115 AP and 3,699 non-AP…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Advanced Placement Programs, College Bound Students
Gordon, Virginia N. – 1984
The way that academic advisers, counselors, faculty, and administrators can help undecided college students set and implement educational and career goals is described. The focus is a developmental advising approach and career development concepts. Origins of indecision, categories of undecided students, and model programs for counseling and…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Academic Aspiration, Career Counseling, College Faculty

Eagle, Eva; Maw, Carlyle E. – 1986
Determinants of postsecondary education were examined for high school graduates in 1980 to determine whether minority students achieved good rates of enrollment and attainment; and to assess the relative importance of demographic characteristics, achievement in high school, and students' expectations. Data obtained from the High School and Beyond…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, Educational Attainment, Followup Studies
Campbell, Paul B. – 1987
The overall objective of this study was to assess the short-term economic advantages that accrue to young people as a result of vocational training. Using the High School and Beyond data base, specifically--sophomore cohort data--a study created 21 tables that show (1) relationships between the primary variables of race, gender, and socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Education, Blacks, Career Choice
Ruskus, Joan A.; Solmon, Lewis C. – 1984
Entering freshmen in 13 fields of study were compared longitudinally on demographic characteristics, high school achievement, college selection process, ability to finance college, highest degree planned, academic expectations, career plans, and aspirations. Attributes of students in the humanities and nonhumanities were also assessed. The…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Black Colleges, College Admission, College Choice
Brunner, Wayne D.; And Others – 1978
The relationships among students' goals, demographic variables, and attrition at Delta Community College (Michigan) were investigated. A total of 600 (out of a random sample of 1,000) fall 1976 students credit courses agreed to participate in the study and identified their goals in attending the college. In the winter 1977 semester, 493 returning…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Age, Community Colleges, Day Students
Tracey, Terence J.; Sedlacek, William E. – 1982
A questionnaire designed to assess seven non-cognitive variables found to be related to college success particularly for minority students (Sedlacek and Brooks, 1976) was administered to two successive samples of incoming freshmen at the University of Maryland, College Park. The Non-Cognitive Questionnaire (NCQ) consists to two nominal items…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Blacks
Shukla, Aditya N.; El-Hanafy, Mohammad Ghanim – 1981
To ascertain the educational, occupational and social aspirations, attitudes and motivation-structure of Iraqi adolescent girl students, a questionnaire was distributed to 137 randomly-selected students from 2 colleges at the University of Mosul. Respondents were predominantly urban-oriented, dormitory residents, unmarried, average in scholastic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Achievement Need, Adolescents
Solmon, Lewis C.; Gordon, Joanne J. – 1980
Similarities and differences between adult and traditional-aged students were analyzed based on a survey of 13 cohorts of first-year college freshmen. A sample of 172,400 first-year students over the age of 21 who responded to the Cooperative Institutional Research Program's freshman survey between 1966 and 1978 was compared to a nationally…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adult Students, Age Differences, Age Groups
Sheldon, M. Stephen; Hunter, Russell – 1978
During 1977-78 Pierce College undertook a study to (1) examine major reasons for attrition; (2) determine reasons for student attendance at Pierce; (3) determine the long-range effects of academic residence at Pierce for its students; and (4) experimentally determine the effects on retention of special treatment, through a "caring ombudsman." Each…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Age, Community Colleges
Brod, Rodney L. – 1979
Structured questionnaires were administered to 324 students (grades 7-12), 126 Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) faculty and staff and 37 tribal education workers and 8 trained, bilingual Choctaws conducted interviews with a random sample of 195 Choctaw adults in a comprehensive study intended to provide the Choctaw Tribe with data regarding: (1) the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Adult Education, American Indian Education
Cancian, Francesca M.; Gordon, Audri – 1976
The first part of the paper discusses how changes in ideology and power at the local and national level may have contributed to the increase in advanced degrees for women. The remainder of the paper discusses how these ideological and political factors have affected the participation of women at the Westcliffe Business School. Changes at the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Business Education, Case Studies
Suchman, Edward A.; And Others – 1968
A questionnaire survey of 6,455 high school students and 400 teachers in eight secondary schools in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area investigated the relationship of low-income status to educational aspirations and plans. The results are presented in five doctoral dissertations on the following subjects: "Students' Poverty Status and Their…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Black Students, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Environment