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Abrahams, Norman M.; And Others – 1969
Prior to beginning the first year academic curriculum at the Naval Academy, incoming midshipmen are required to complete "plebe summer" - a nonacademic military training program. Typically, some members of each incoming class fail to complete this summer training, with the great majority of disenrollments being for motivational reasons.…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Enrollment Trends, Higher Education, Military Personnel
Sands, William A.; Abrahams, Norman M. – 1977
Interest scales designed to provide educational and vocational guidance to midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy were developed from the Strong Vocational Interest Blank. Three of the scales provided an index of similarity between a person's interests and the interests of previous graduates from each of the Academy's three academic areas:…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Comparative Analysis, Engineering, Humanities