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Allen, Walter R. – Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1979
The occupational status attainments of Black women are significantly lower than those of White women and Black and White men. However, their achievement orientations are not noticeably different. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Blacks, Employed Women, Family Structure, Income
Los Angeles Unified School District, CA. Research and Evaluation Branch. – 1979
Two weeks before their June 1978 graduation, 21,225 students in the Los Angeles (CA) Unified School District graduating class completed a questionnaire about their plans after graduation and their opinions about their senior high school programs. Sixty percent reported that they had chosen their career by the time of their graduation. A smaller…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Graduate Surveys, High School Seniors, High Schools
Page, Jane; And Others – 1980
Information from this study is intended to provide schools of education with high school students' perceptions of the teaching profession. Questionnaires submitted to students were designed to: (1) identify high school seniors' perceptions of the profession; (2) determine whether differences exist between groups categorized on the basis of sex and…
Descriptors: Career Choice, High School Seniors, Labor Market, Occupational Aspiration
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Vetter, Louise – Youth and Society, 1985
Examines effects of Title IX and Title II on female enrollment in vocational education. Analyzes enrollment data for occupationally specific programs and discusses implications under five headings: the importance of being prepared to work, the feminization of poverty, types of work for women, the importance of labels, and the importance of career…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Enrollment Trends, Females, Nontraditional Occupations
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Bowker, Jeanette E.; And Others – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1983
A survey of 326 faculty members in 48 land grant universities compared administrative interests and aspirations by sex, age, marital status, academic rank, and tenure. Overall findings revealed no differences by sex, except that women who were older, married, tenured, and full professors were more interested in administration than equivalent…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Age, College Administration, College Faculty
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
Kansky, Bob; Olson, Melfried – 1979
This report provides a general description of the mathematical programs pursued by students in Wyoming's public schools, an evaluation of the adequacy of the high school mathematical preparation of college-bound students relative to the occupational aspirations of those students, and a measure of the extent to which students are aware of the…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Mathematics, Decision Making, Educational Research
Taylor, Stephen – 1996
The 1995 Scottish School Leavers Survey, which was designed to obtain information about school leavers' post-school education and employment, was administered to a sample of 18- and 19-year-olds who had left school in 1992, 1993, or 1994. Of the 5,020 individuals sent questionnaires, 2,812 (56%) responded. Of those surveyed, 39% were in full-time…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adult Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment
Bachman, Jerald G.; And Others – 1980
The document presents descriptive statistical results from a national survey which examines values and lifestyles of high school seniors. The volume, fourth in a series, presents data from 1978; other volumes report results from 1975, 1976, and 1977. The report is presented in three sections. The introduction describes the study, the sample, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Drug Use, Females, Futures (of Society)
Lisack, J. P. – 1981
Educational and vocational plans and changing characteristics of Indiana high school seniors from 1966 to 1980 were studied. In 1966, 1969, 1972, and 1975, questionnaires were mailed to all public and private high schools in the state, while in 1980, a stratefied random sample was used. The response rate of the first four surveys was 54 percent or…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, Career Planning, College Bound Students
Coyle, Susan L.; Syverson, Peter D. – 1986
A statistical and narrative summary of the results of the 1983-1984 Survey of Earned Doctorates is presented. Basic information, such as sex, field, institution, and year of Ph.D., is presented for all of the 31,253 doctorate recipients; complete questionnaire data are included for the 29,713 Ph.D. recipients who responded to the questionnaire,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Employment Patterns, Ethnic Groups, Foreign Nationals
Ruskus, Joan A.; Solmon, Lewis C. – 1984
Entering freshmen in 13 fields of study were compared longitudinally on demographic characteristics, high school achievement, college selection process, ability to finance college, highest degree planned, academic expectations, career plans, and aspirations. Attributes of students in the humanities and nonhumanities were also assessed. The…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Black Colleges, College Admission, College Choice
Hofferth, Sandra L. – 1980
A study examined the differential effects of experiences prior to labor force entry, primarily in high school, on the later sex-typicality of occupations and earnings of non-college-bound men and women. The study analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of the Labor Market Experiences of Young Men and Women. (These surveys lnvolved…
Descriptors: Blacks, Career Choice, Demography, Educational Background