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Opinions of senior academic officials about changes in the quality of students in the humanities over the past 5 years were surveyed in 1982. Responses were received from officials from 385 institutions with undergraduate programs and 295 schools with graduate programs. Sixty-two percent of the officials believed that undergraduate student quality…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Quality, Graduate Students
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Opinions of senior academic officials about changes in the quality of students in science and engineering (S/E) fields over the past 5 years were surveyed in 1982. Responses were received from officials from 387 institutions with undergraduate programs and 298 schools with graduate programs. Sixty-one percent of the officials believed that…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Quality, Engineering
Hilton, Thomas L. – 1982
Characteristics and attendance patterns of persisters and dropouts from college and vocational/technical schools were studied, and a model of the persistence process was tested using data from the National Longitudinal Study (NLS), which surveyed high school seniors in 1972, with followup surveys in 1973 and 1974. Student persistence was defined…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, College Attendance
