The degree of satisfaction with both academic and nonacademic facets of college life is an important variable in determining the attitudes of college students toward both their present and future goal attainment. One of the major developmental trends during the college years was a significant increase in goal-directedness. (Author)

The Quality of School Life Scale (QLS) is an instrument designed to measure students' perceptions of their school experiences. Such an instrument may aid educators in evaluating students' perceptions in the three areas identified by the QSL: satisfaction, commitment to classwork, and reactions to teachers. (Author)

Incoming freshmen experienced a summer planning conference designed to alter attitudes. Two semantic differential instruments were developed to measure change along twenty attitudinal scales. Results indicate attitudinal changes can be measured by the flexible and sensitive semantic differential type of instrument and a short program of…

Compared with high-test anxious students, those with low scores on both scales of the Achievement Anxiety Test were less anxious before a test, studied less for it, and got more sleep the night before. The pattern of results was congruent with expectations. (Author)