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Direct linkSimon, Merril A.; Tovar, Esau – Journal of Career Assessment, 2004
A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted using AMOS 4.0 to validate the 21-item Career Factors Inventory on a community college student sample. The multidimensional inventory assesses types and levels of career indecision antecedents. The sample consisted of 512 ethnically diverse freshmen students; 46% were men and 54% were women.…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Community Colleges, Career Choice, Decision Making
Peer reviewedPentony, Joseph F.; Swank, Paul; Pentony, Carole G. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2001
Describes a study involving 1,343 community college students, which examined the relationships between the Cultural Literacy Test (CLT), developed by E.D. Hirsch, and several academic factors: grade point average and first-semester grades in remedial and regular English, history, and government courses. Emphasizes the clinical usefulness of the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cultural Literacy, Evaluation Research, Factor Analysis
Download full textAlfred, Richard L. – 1972
In this study of the extensiveness of impact, as measured by number of academic courses terminated, of selected self-related factors on student attrition, 1802 subjects, 1142 males and 660 females, comprised the sample. The factors investigated were: within-district/out-of-district residence; part-time/full-time enrollment status; and sex. Each…
Descriptors: Age, College Students, Community Colleges, Dropout Research
