Ninety-four colleges administered the College Senior Survey, a machine-readable questionnaire, designed to investigate the educational plans of seniors (class of 71), attitudes toward work, the college, student backgrounds, feelings about academic performance, college careers, accomplishments outside the classroom, and perceptions of various…

A large national sample of men and women college seniors were asked for their perceptions of five careers: medicine, law, college teaching and research, elementary and senior school teaching, and business. The responses of men and women seniors to 18 items repeated for each field showed that they held different images of these fields. The images…

Reports results of a national longitudinal study of the educational choices of college seniors, followed up a year later. Emphasis is on results for medical students: their characteristics as compared to other college seniors and their perceptions of the first year. They reported having worked hard and being quite satisfied with their schools.…

Students knowledge and skills cannot be fully understood without assessing the ways they are influenced by other aspects of postsecondary education. These aspects are described in a "map" consisting of points that depict the flow of students through institutions and experiences from precollege to adulthood. (Author/MLW)