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Download full textHawaii Univ., Honolulu. Community Coll. System. – 1975
In spring 1975, students attending evening classes only comprised 17 percent of the total enrollment of the community colleges of Hawaii; day-only students comprised 71 percent, and students attending both day and evening classes comprised 12 percent. In all three groups, the majority are male liberal arts majors who were on campus last semester…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Day Students, Enrollment Trends, Evening Students
Stowe, Elaine – 1971
An individualized reading program was instituted in several terminal classes at the sophomore and junior levels in a Sacramento, California, high school. The students read at levels ranging from virtual nonreaders to seventh grade and did not intend to go to school after high school. The program involved transforming the classroom arrangement to…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Writing, Grade 10, Grade 11
Wagenaar, Theodore C. – 1986
A study examined terminal degree graduates--high school graduates who do not pursue any type of postsecondary education in the two years following graduation. They were compared with those who did pursue postsecondary education. The study used the base year (1980) and first followup (1982) of seniors in the High School and Beyond Study. Findings…
Descriptors: Career Education, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, Followup Studies
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Dept. of Occupational Education and Technology. – 1977
The Tex-SIS Follow-up system First Year Graduate Survey involved 37 Texas community colleges and resulted in a total of 6,560 questionnaires processed from institutional surveys conducted during fall semester 1976. The average response rate was 59%. Following a section presenting the study highlights in graphic form, the monograph presents…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Employment Patterns, Followup Studies
Bencich, John D.; And Others – 1980
Factors are discussed which affect the role played by faculty in implementing legislation mandating that each of the Florida community colleges define the skills that must be mastered by students before transferring to a baccalaureate program. The report first presents a rationale for this mandate, based on the disproportionately high number of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Administrative Problems, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Wenzel, Gustave G.; Corson, Hal – 1974
This annual report presents a descriptive picture of where Miami-Dade Community College graduates go after receiving their degrees or certificates. A questionnaire was distributed to the 5,484 graduates; 2,836 (52 percent) responded. Eighty-three percent of the respondents planned to continue their education; of this group, 88 percent planned to…
Descriptors: College Choice, College Graduates, Employment, Females
Fitch, Robert J. – 1969
This research paper investigates whether or not students placed on academic probation react appropriately to Burton R. Clark's "cooling out" process--a process designed to encourage students to match their levels of aspiration with their abilities and interests--by changing to an alternate major. Using a sample of 1000 Cerritos College…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, Counseling Effectiveness, Institutional Research, Majors (Students)
Newcomb, Mary Jane – 1970
To determine the effect of diverse methods of instruction on the written composition of students in a small community junior college, 133 subjects (both transfer and terminal students) were given 10 weeks of instruction in one of three methods--programmed instruction (covering three assigned programmed texts), developmental reading (stressing…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Developmental Reading, Programed Instruction, Programed Instructional Materials
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Dept. of Occupational Education and Technology. – 1977
Ten Texas community colleges participated in a fall, l976, college withdrawal survey, yielding a total of 1,102 responses. Students classified as "illegal/undefined" majors accounted for 32% of withdrawals, followed by "university transfer/academic" majors (27%), "undecided" (21%), and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Databases, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research
Selgas, James W. – 1977
In 1976, a transfer and employment follow-up survey was conducted of 696 Associate of Arts and certificate students who had graduated between December 1974 and August 1975 from Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC). Responses, which were received from 70% of the graduates, indicated that (1) 93% would recommend HACC; (2) 72% were currently…
Descriptors: College Credits, Community Colleges, Employment, Evaluation
Franklin Pierce School District, Tacoma, WA. – 1974
The Technical Interdisciplinary Program is a Title III, Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, federally funded exemplary program. Franklin Pierce High School is the only high school in the state of Washington with a program of this nature. The Technical Interdisciplinary Program is designed to incorporate two or more disciplines into one…
Descriptors: Building Trades, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
Gustilo, Ted O., Jr.; Trufant, John E. – 1974
This study was conducted to facilitate future statewide decision-making by obtaining data on all students, both full-time and part-time, who had enrolled in Virginia Community College System occupational-technical programs at any time from fall 1966 through fall 1969. Graduates and non-graduates, as well as those who changed to or from…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Followup Studies, Graduate Surveys, Participant Satisfaction
Patton, Stanley R. – 1969
This document contains a design for creating an educational data bank of pupil personnel information. The specific information that should be collected and maintained in such an updatable data bank is described in detail. The document provides instructions on interpretation of this data for (1) predicting approximate percentages of students who…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Processing, Databases
Peer reviewedHellmich, David M. – Community College Review, 1993
Describes a study to discover whether socioeconomic status, race, and gender taken independently and in combination were related to community college students being "cooled out" (i.e., ultimately graduating with a terminal degree after enrolling in a transfer degree program) after controlling for academic ability and age. Finds Clark's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Career Counseling, College Transfer Students
STORER, MARJORIE; AND OTHERS – 1967
TO DETERMINE WHETHER GRADUATES HAD BEGUN TO REALIZE THEIR ASPIRATIONS AND TO ASSESS THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF CHICAGO CITY COLLEGE (CCC) TO THEIR PRESENT STATUS, DATA FROM A 55 PERCENT RESPONSE TO A QUESTIONNAIRE 15 MONTHS AFTER GRADUATION WERE COMPARED WITH A STUDY CONDUCTED IMMEDIATELY AFTER GRADUATION. THE INVENTORY IDENTIFIES THOSE GRADUATES…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aspiration, Curriculum Evaluation, Followup Studies
