In response to the South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) Board's introduction in 2010 of the new Research Project subject, the University of South Australia's Centre for Participation and Community Engagement took the opportunity to engage further with school students by organising the Research Ready Program. The adoption of the program…

This article reports on a research project that investigated the aspirations of primary and secondary school students about access to, and participation in higher education. The research was undertaken at schools in low socio-economic status regional and rural areas of north-eastern New South Wales. The paper discusses the background to the…

Questionnaires that assesed educational goals, career goals, preferred and expected career commitment, sex-role attitudes, age, college class, height, and weight were completed by 884 male and female undergraduates representing two racial groups and two age groups. Age, size, and college class were unrelated to women's goals and attitudes. (Author)

To assess the degree plans of entering freshmen at the University of South Carolina (U.S.C.), a questionnaire prepared by the American Council on Education was administered to incoming freshmen at U.S.C. and 527 other institutions of higher education during summer and fall orientation 1972. The resulting summary data included information on…

College graduates who were community college transfers differed from other graduates in perceived neglect by the university and in future plans. Fewer were going to graduate school, more were going to work in non-career-related jobs, and more were in social science and education. (Author)

This experiment examined the impact of achievement motivation on the accuracy of self-reported grades. The author predicted that subjects high in achievement motivation would also be more likely to overestimate the degree of their success than low need achievers. Results supported the hypotheses. (Author)

Examines multipurpose surveys of women students, conducted periodically over the past decade in several selective liberal-arts colleges. The surveys provide evidence that women students are projecting smaller families, seeking less traditional careers and endorsing more liberal views of women's roles than their predecessors. Implications for…

Undergraduate students were asked to indicate their attitudes toward several areas of university life and to indicate their intentions about returning to the university. The attitudes were correlated with intentions to return. Student dissatisfaction with progress toward career and academic goals was most likely to be a cause of attrition. (Author)

The interrelationships between two measures of alienation, major academic areas, and expressed occupational aspirations were investigated in 300 undergraduate students. Students' academic standing and residence status were also studied for their possible association with each of the variables. While the alienation measures correlated…

Differences in children's acceptance of occupational roles traditionally sex-typed by society were explored for a sample of 270 elementary school children. The degree of sex typing was high among all subjects. Children at each age level viewed occupational roles for both men and women similarly to the traditional sex-typed role views. (Author)

EVIDENCE IS PRESENTED ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP OF INDEPENDENT STUDENT AND SCHOOL VARIABLES TO DEPENDENT VARIABLES. THE EVIDENCE IS DERIVED FROM THESE SOURCES--(1) PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED DATA FROM PROJECT TALENT, (2) EQUALITY OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY BY COLEMAN, ET. AL., (3) A SPECIAL ANALYSIS OF UNPUBLISHED DATA GATHERED BY PROJECT TALENT. THE…

A college of veterinary medicine in a large state university compared its male and female students on the influences on their career choice, including attitudes of family and school personnel, and students' academic experiences, gender-role expectations and conflicts, attitudes regarding professional dedication and competence, and their need for…

Information is presented on attitudes of students enrolling for the first time at the University of New South Wales in 1975. Attitudes toward higher education, anticipated difficulties in making the transition from high school to university, and ideas about the likely demands and rewards of advanced study were surveyed, using a forced-choice…

This study identifies the perceptions of urban disadvantaged 10th grade students toward employment in distributive education occupations within general merchandise department stores, and compares these perceptions with those held by urban 10th grade students not considered disadvantaged and with those already employed in department stores. Based…

A sample of 15-year-old children in London were interviewed with regard to their vocational wishes, the reasons for these, their plans for preparatory study or training, and relevant aspects of their school experience. Considerable overlap was found between the constructs underlying occupational wishes and liking or disliking for school subjects,…