Report presented to the Presidential Commission on Admissions and Student Body Compositons. (RJ)

What do college instructors feel are the strengths and weaknesses of high school bookkeeping programs of study? (Author)

Studied validity of the Career Decision Scale (CDS) for use by high school counselors in identifying students needing career services. Results showed that the construct or factor validity of an adapted CDS did not support its use as a measure of different components of educational/vocational indecision. (WAS)

There is a need to expand vocational education's role in secondary education to include (1) career awareness and exploration, (2) provision of vocational skills to nonvocational majors, and (3) provision of skills necessary for productive use of leisure time. (SK)

Identifies differences between engineering students at the Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison in good academic standing at the end of the first year who persisted in engineering, and those in good standing who transferred to another college. (CS)

Summarizes papers presented at the Sixth Biennial Conference on Chemical Education in the area of high school chemistry, particularly dealing with the high school/college interface. A bibliography of 16 presented papers on this topic is attached. (CS)

To determine how to mail information to prospective students identified through the College Board's Student Search Service, Xavier University researched three hypotheses: August and December are good mailing times; the easier it is for students to respond, the higher the response rate; the easier it is to respond, the lower the final enrollment…

The Monitoring the Future research team found that high school seniors in the class of 1995 spent about the same amount of time doing homework as seniors in the class of 1976. However, 1991-95 college-bound seniors spent an average of 7.5 hours per week on homework, whereas their counterparts in 1976-78 spent an average of 8.1 hours weekly, a…

Recent research indicates that many technical college students do plan to transfer to other colleges and universities to earn a baccalaureate degree. Technical colleges must broaden their focus beyond job training only and work to improve articulation with other institutions. (JOW)

Argues that patterns of student flow between two- and four-year institutions are not linear and that the permutations of student situations affect the datasets that are used to both defend and question the effectiveness and transferability of two-year programs. (DDR)

Examines parents' expectations from a community college and their roles in the college choice process of community college-bound students. Reports that, overall, parents had high academic goals for their children, wanted the college to prepare for bachelor's degrees, and overestimated their children's academic abilities. Discusses implications for…

Describes how educators on both sides of the admissions process are devising ways to motivate high school seniors after they have been accepted by colleges. (EV)

Factors influencing career behavior of rural Australian secondary students from a regional center (n=218) and outer metropolitan school (n=89) were studied. College aspirations were similar. Parent encouragement, garde expectations, and relevance of college to employment were inhibitors or encouragers dependent on local culture. (Contains 47…

Describes the phenomenon of multiple-institution attendance, outlining the primary patterns of student behavior and discussing the implications of these patterns for higher education. Raises the issue of maintaining a proper balance between the integrity and coherence of academic programs and growing demand among consumers and policy makers for…

Argues trend toward benign and homogeneous college promotional materials/presentations makes college selection process more difficult. Feels tactic of deemphasizing importance of college board scores to increase applicant pool and thereby enhance "college profile" is unethical and deprives college applicant of ability to make informed choices. (CM)