What factors might be causing the low participation of women Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields? What can be done to attract more girls and women into STEM in Asia and beyond? The report, "A Complex Formula. Girls and Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in Asia", answers three fundamental…

QUESTIONNAIRE FORMS WERE SENT TO 98,000 11TH-GRADE STUDENTS IN 1960, AND 45,199 COMPLETED FORMS WERE RETURNED. OF THOSE RESPONDENTS QUESTIONED, 91 PERCENT GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL AND 1 PERCENT EXPECTED TO GRADUATE LATER. AFTER GRADUATION 45.5 PERCENT DID NOT CONTINUE IN ANY TYPE OF SCHOOL, WHILE 38.5 PERCENT ENTERED COLLEGE. THERE WERE 7…

The Post-High School Plans Survey has been conducted annually by the Office of High School Relations of the State System of Higher Education since 1956. The survey is distributed to high school seniors in all high schools in the state each fall, and the completed questionnaires are returned directly to the Educational Coordinating Council for…

THE QUESTIONNAIRE WAS ADMINISTERED TO 8,709 HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS. OF THIS NUMBER 4,279 WERE FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND 4,430 WERE DIOCESAN SCHOOL GRADUATES. 6,006 PLANNED TO WORK IMMEDIATELY AFTER GRADUATION, AND 2,643 PLANNED TO CONTINUE THEIR EDUCATION. FOR THOSE GOING ON TO COLLEGE 16.6 PERCENT PLANNED TO STUDY ENGINEERING, 16.4 PERCENT TEACHING,…

In the fall and winter of 1971, the Oregon Educational Coordinating Council and the Office of High School Relations of the State Department of Higher Education undertook a project to survey the future plans of all Oregon high school seniors. This report presents a summary of the results of this survey and some important implications of the survey…

A second follow-up of students in five cities in 1947 who had taken the Differential Aptitude Tests is reported. Questionnaires were sent out to 2,386 individuals, and replies were received from 1,430. Their Differential Aptitude Test scores were converted to standard scores with a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10, based upon the original…

The data tables contain responses to the 200 College Student Questionnaire (CSQ) questions and nine local option questions for four categories: total sample at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro (n=496), freshmen dorm residents (n=442), by sex (n=496), and by student subculture (n=480). Preceding the tables are commentaries on (1)…

Four items on educational and vocational decisions were analyzed from the l969 University Student Census of the University of Maryland. A random samole of l00 students from each class was studied and comparisons were made by class and sex. Results indicate that: (1) more freshmen and sophomores were undecided and uncertain about their vocational…

Post-college activities of Black U.S. graduates who studied engineering are the topic of this monograph, the last in a series of four reports examining Black engineering students at Purdue University. Black American B.S. degree recipients who studied engineering between 1938-1974 were surveyed. Advanced educational plans, type of employment, and…

TWO SURVEYS MADE BY THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF MEDICINE HAT JUNIOR COLLEGE (MHJC), MEDICINE HAT, ALBERTA ARE SUMMARIZED IN THIS REPORT--(1) ADULT INTEREST IN STUDY AT THE COLLEGE AND (2) THE EDUCATIONAL PLANS OF STUDENTS IN GRADES 11 AND 12 IN THE COLLEGE SERVICE AREA. IN THE FIRST STUDY, QUESTIONNAIRES WERE MAILED TO 1,669 INDIVIDUALS IN MEDICINE…