Prepared by the high schools, colleges, and universities of Southeast Florida, this booklet offers information and practical advice to high school students on selecting courses and programs that will promote later success in college and on the job. Part 1 presents suggestions for planning a high school career, focusing on the academic skills…

Prepared by the Illinois Community College-Senior College Task Force on Articulation, this report examines the current status of articulation among and between community colleges and senior colleges and universities in Illinois, and recommends a program of articulation for the state. Section I provides an introduction and background to Illinois's…

This report presents a review of activities conducted at Honolulu Community College under a grant from the Ford Foundation Urban Community College Transfer Opportunities Grant. First, project achievements are outlined, along with the ways in which these achievements correspond to the original grant proposal. They include: (1) the development of an…

This study was designed to appraise the degree to which the vocational interest profiles of students in different academic majors can be classified into cogent clusters sharing a hierarchical organization. Students were administered the Jackson Vocational Interest Survey (JVIS) prior to their admission to college. Their choice of an academic major…

This document discusses the scores of Albuquerque (New Mexico) Public Schools (APS) students on the American College Test (ACT) and the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) during the 1982-83 school year. Graphs, a map, and a question and answer format are used to report the information. Comparisons of average ACT scores and average SAT scores are drawn…

The nature of student college choice sets was studied. The characteristics of institutions that are assumed to be central to students' application decisions were identified, and students were grouped according to similarity in the types of institutions to which they sent their test scores. Data on 627 students were analyzed by a mode, cluster…

Because of the importance of reliable information regarding transfer students for regional and system-wide planning, and interinstitutional cooperation, the data gathered for this study have been organized and presented in a variety of formats designed to provide immediate answers to a wide range of questions that may be formulated regarding…

Two matched groups of transfer students from low income families were compared in order to determine effects--if any--of non-academic factors on their academic achievement. Transfer students who applied for financial aid at the University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC) financial aids office made up the initial population from which the group samples…

After a brief discussion of the position the Technion, Israel's institute of Technology and its only engineering school, occupies in the country and of Israeli high schools and the matriculation examination, this paper focuses on the successful and unsuccessful applicants to the Technion in the academic years 1967/68 and 1968/69. It discusses the…

This study has 3 major objectives: (1) to synthesize and analyze research on socio-psychological factors associated with the decision to enter college, (2) to derive from this analysis a model useful to program implementation intended to improve recruitment and retention of college students, and (3) to consider implications of the results of the…

A program involving instruction in library skills, reading skills, and study skills is described. High school graduates, rated as underachievers, took a 3-week skills instruction course, followed by regular summer session college work, as a means of preparing themselves for college. Counseling was provided in individual and group sessions. When…

In an effort to aid freshmen whose academic backgrounds were weaker than those of other freshmen, the College of the Arts and Sciences, University of Missouri, Kansas City, inaugurated a program called "The Transitional Year." This program was planned to minimize the difficulties encountered by freshmen during the transition from high school to…

This study was designed to provide longitudinal data bearing on the change and/or stability of college-bound students' educational and vocational goals, as well as their background characteristics. Data from three studies were contrasted and compared. Included in these studies were: (1) a 2-year followup of 4,009 junior college students; (2) a…

Kuznik (1972) completed a study of community college populations and found that there is a rapidly growing number of students enrolled who were formerly enrolled in 4-year colleges and universities (reverse transfers). Impressively large percentages of the reverse transfers (38% males and 40% females) were continuing with their vocational plans,…

This is a report of an extensive follow-up study of Lake Land College transfer students at Eastern Illinois University. An analysis of their grade point average (GPA) term by term reveals a drop in GPA the first term after transfer and subsequent recovery. This phenomenon, known as "transfer shock," is compared with results obtained in…