Data gathered from large-scale assessments in the Ontario Assessment Instrument Pool (OAIP) are examined. Implications for science instruction are to be found at the item level; the items should not involve more than two or three steps if the responses are to be informative. Items are collected and linked to provincial curriculum guidelines. These…

Differences in the job status, stability, and satisfaction of 1,609 recent four-year college graduates with varying lengths of attendance at two-year institutions were studied. Data were obtained on a sample of the participants in the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. A longitudinal design was employed that had controls…

A 1984 update of the College Board's Advanced Placement (AP) Program is presented. Graphs and narrative descriptions cover: number of students taking AP examinations by subject areas, 1974, 1979, 1983, 1984; trends in numbers of schools giving AP Examinations (exams) for the last 25 years (at 5-year intervals), including the number of exams,…

Graduates of masters' degree programs in education at a small midwestern state college were surveyed to determine the academic and attitudinal differences between those who had obtained their undergraduate degree at other institutions (regional group) and those who were continuing their study toward a graduate degree at the same college…

More and more programs are being developed to strengthen the academic preparation of incoming community college students, reduce overlap between college and high school curricula, and facilitate the transition between secondary and postsecondary education. This paper highlights various programs devoted to these goals. First, efforts to strengthen…

This field manual for composition teachers, written by community college and University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) writing instructors, examines practical and theoretical problems and strategies associated with teaching composition. Essays in chapter I, by Ruth Mitchell and Faye Peitzman, underscore the relevance and implications of…

The International Baccalaureate, a special program for bright public and private high school students, is described in transcriptions of broadcasts from National Public Radio. Over half the 43 schools in Canada and the United States that offer the program are public. For the approximately 1,200 high school juniors and seniors in North America…

A 1977 survey of high school counselors was replicated in 1981 at Georgia State University to determine how counselor opinions, experiences, and evaluation had changed. Responses from 277 high school counselors over the state indicated the following: all respondents in the metropolitan Atlanta area had recently received information about Georgia…

Tables present data, without narrative analysis, concerning the distribution of 1979-80 high school graduates of New York State's public and private schools. The data were secured through the state education department's Basic Educational Data System, and reflect students' status as of fall 1980. The first table presents trends, 1966 through 1980,…

A causal framework was used to explore factors that influence the enrollment of four-year college students in the hard and technical sciences (math, science, engineering) and the professions (pre-law, medicine, dentistry). The factors studied were family status, standardized test performance, high school rank, educational expectations, high school…

A marketing process was designed at Odessa College (Texas) to deal with declining enrollments. Marketing was defined by the administrators and faculty who designed the process as a combination of image portrayal, service adaptability, and the evaluation of how well service and promotion complement one another. The process used a task force…

THIS ARTICULATION STATEMENT IS IN THREE PARTS--(1) GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON INCLUDES ADMISSION CRITERIA AND PROCEDURES, TRANSFER POLICIES, STUDENT AID, AND ARTICULATION PROCESSES. (2) PROGRAMS AND COURSE REQUIREMENTS ARE DESCRIBED FOR EACH OF THE UNIVERSITY'S COLLEGES, SCHOOLS, INTERDEPARTMENTAL PROGRAMS, AND…

A study was conducted to determine the effect of the college attended on the occupational attainments of students. Data were obtained from the National Opinion Research Center on the occupational and educational activities of the college class of 1961 and analyzed by path regression techniques. (Analyses were limited to the activities of male…

A study was commissioned by the British Columbia (BC) Ministry of Education to determine the number of students enrolled in transfer programs at the 14 BC community colleges who actually transfer to senior institutions. The study involved identifying all BC community college students (both full- and part-time) who were enrolled in transfer…

This study uses a representative sample of 3050 twelfth grade students from 18 schools to examine the ways in which the socioeconomic composition of a school is related to its students' educational plans. The basic premise investigated is that students attending schools with a greater proportion of high socioceconomic status (SES) students are…