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Peer reviewedDrew, David E.; Astin, Alexander W. – American Journal of Sociology, 1972
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, College Students, Educational Research
Download full textAstin, Alexander W.; And Others – 1982
Fall 1982 data on first-time, full-time freshmen are presented as part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program. The normative data are presented separately for women and men, and for 38 groupings of institutions. The major stratifying factors are institutional race (predominantly black versus predominantly white), type (two-year college,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Background, Family Characteristics, Females
Astin, Alexander W.; And Others – 1983
National normative data for fall 1983 on the characteristics of students entering college as first-time, full-time freshmen are presented as part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program longitudinal study of American higher education. The 1983 norms are based on a statistically adjusted sample of over 254,000 new freshmen entering 489…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Background, Higher Education, Longitudinal Studies
Peer reviewedAstin, Alexander W. – Review of Higher Education, 1998
Data from an annual national survey of college freshmen indicate the women's movement has had dramatic effects on educational aspirations, career plans, behavior, and values of young women entering college and equally dramatic effects on attitudes of both men and women toward women's roles. One consequence is that current male and female freshmen…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, College Freshmen, College Students
Peer reviewedAstin, Alexander W. – Journal of Legal Education, 1984
National survey file data on college freshmen aspiring to be lawyers were compared to all others in the classes entering college in 1969 and 1981. Students aspiring to be lawyers differed substantially from others in family background, academic preparation, college selectivity, college major, political orientation and interest, and goal…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Choice, College Freshmen, College Preparation
Astin, Alexander W.; And Others – 1985
National normative data on characteristics of students entering college as first-time, full-time freshmen are presented, based on results of the fall 1985 Cooperative Research Program survey. The data are weighted to represent the population of freshmen. Extensive statistical data are reported separately for women and men, and for 37 institutional…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, College Freshmen, Females, Full Time Students
Astin, Alexander W.; And Others – 1986
National normative data on characteristics of students entering college as first-time, full-time freshmen are presented, based on results of the fall 1986 Cooperative Institutional Research Program survey. The data are weighted to represent the population of freshmen. Extensive statistical data are reported separately for women and men, and for 37…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Females
Astin, Alexander W.; And Others – 1984
National normative data on characteristics of students entering college as first-time, full-time freshmen are presented, based on the results of the fall 1984 Cooperative Research Program survey. The data are weighted to represent the population of freshmen. Extensive statistical data are reported separately for women and men, and for 37…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Computer Literacy
Astin, Alexander W.; And Others – 1981
The fifteenth annual report of national normative data on characteristics of students entering college as first-time, full-time freshmen is presented as part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program. The 1980 normative data are based on responses from 187,124 freshmen entering 355 institutions, of which 19 were new and 336 old…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Black Colleges, Career Planning, Church Related Colleges
