With the renovation of the building and the redesign of the Wien Museum's (the City Museum of Vienna) permanent exhibition, the Nazi period is now finally being told as part of the city's history after decades of neglect. The education department was thus faced with the task of including these important and multifaceted topics in our educational…

The numbers of Chinese teenagers studying abroad have dramatically increased since the late 1990s, and this phenomenon has received significant attention from researchers and policymakers alike. There is substantial consensus about its proximate causes -- the recent changes in the higher education landscape and the labour market in China and…

As a part of a larger qualitative study, this research investigation explored the perceptions and attitudes that first-generation, urban college students have of their preparation for postsecondary education. The purposeful sample in this study was comprised of 13 first-generation college students (i.e., 6 males and 7 females) who were graduates…

Two short Likert-type attitude scales were constructed to measure enjoyment of mathematics and the value of mathematics. Both scales were administered to 185 college freshmen. Reliability of the E Scale was found to be .95, while that of the V Scale was .85. Correlations with biographical data are given. (LS)

Presents a student inventory that requires students to write responses to questions about their background, attitudes, interests, and plans, thus revealing to them possible writing topics. (RL)

A questionnaire containing items on personal history, reasons for section selection, and sources of information about the instructor was administered to undergraduate students. The time at which class was scheduled and teacher reputation were the primary reasons for section choice. Other variables, considered less important by students, also…

The major conclusion of this study is that junior college students appear to have goals in attending college that are very similar in distribution to those of students at other types of colleges and universities. (Author)

This is an inventory of the background, opinions, beliefs, attitudes and feelings of students about themselves; about social, moral, and religious practices and problems; and about various aspects of their college. The instrument is used to collect information about incoming freshman students at Abilene Christian College and about ways in which…

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) was one of 393 institutions of higher education throughout the country that administered the Student Information Form (SIF) in the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, sponsored by the American Council on Education (ACE) and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). The SIF was…

The purpose of this study was to identify factors influencing the attitudes of former agricultural students who are preparing to be vocational agricultural teachers toward supervised occupational experience (SOE) program record keeping. Agricultural education majors at Iowa State University during winter quarter, 1978, who had vocational…

The transition from education into the world of work that leads to career success is in some part dependent on the nontechnical work skills developed by students and the extent to which they can demonstrate those skills on the job. Research by Brauchle, Petty, and Morgan has shown that five important nontechnical work skills can be measured by the…

A comparison was made of nursing students entering five nursing schools (three diploma programs, one associate degree program, and one baccalaureate) in the Memphis, Tennessee, area in 1974 and 1975. The study was undertaken to compare nursing students in three levels of nursing education on five clusters of variables deemed to influence learning…

First-year graduate students were asked to respond to a biographical questionnaire which emphasized motivational variables in addition to the usual demographic variables. It was hypothesized that the students could select from a group of ability measures the one best indicator of how well they would do in graduate school. To test this hypothesis…

College applicants taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the Test of Standard Written English (TSWE) were surveyed regarding the tests, college admission in general, and the communications received concerning the test and their scores. Separate questionnaires were administered before taking the SAT or TSWE, after taking the test, and after…

In anticipation of the base-year survey of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88), a field test of the questionnaire and test items was conducted in 1987. NELS:88 is a national, longitudinal study designed to provide trend data about the critical transitions of young people as they develop, attend school, and enter the work…