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The Relations of Holland-Typed Majors to Students' Freshman and Senior Work Values.
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Huang, Ya-Rong; Healy, Charles C. – Research in Higher Education, 1997
A study investigated relationships between academic majors and six undergraduate student work values (authority, recognition, administrative responsibility, financial success, helping others, artistic creativity), using Holland's theory of occupational choice. Subjects were 18,137 students persisting at four-year institutions from 1985 to 1989.…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Freshmen, College Seniors, Higher Education
Applying Holland's Typology to the Study of Differences in Student Views about Diversity
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Umbach, Paul D.; Milem, Jeffrey F. – Research in Higher Education, 2004
Using data from a survey of more that 1900 first-year students at a large research institution, this paper applies Holland's theory of personality and environment to examine the ways in which students view diversity. Holland categories, individual characteristics such as race and gender, and interactions with people of color prior to college,…
Descriptors: Classification, Cultural Differences, College Freshmen, Student Surveys
Institutional Research: Knowledge, Skills, and Perceptions of Effectiveness.
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Knight, William E.; Moore, Michael E.; Coperthwaite, Corby A. – Research in Higher Education, 1997
A study investigated the knowledge and skills of college and university institutional researchers (n=601) in relation to their perceptions of the effectiveness of their work. Analysis found that relationships between background characteristics, knowledge and skills in institutional research, and perceptions of effectiveness were minimal.…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Expectation, Higher Education, Institutional Research