In 1989, a survey of high school students was conducted by Labette Community College (LCC) to determine their career and academic aspirations, possible interests in college majors, interests in proposed new offerings, information needs, extracurricular interests, and scheduling preferences. Surveys were administered on a voluntary basis to 1,004…

Discussed in this report is the City University of New York (CUNY) Transfer Express Project, a 3-year project designed for career-oriented Associate in Applied Science degree (A.A.S.) transfer students at colleges within the university who are not well prepared for baccalaureate study because of an underexposure to writing, math, and liberal arts…

In 1987, a study was conducted by Johnson County Community College (Kansas) in cooperation with local public school districts to determine the career and educational interests of the county's public high school students. Surveys were administered in class to 11,477 freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, requesting information on high school…

In response to a request from the California state legislature, a plan is proposed for obtaining information on the number of community college students eligible to transfer to the University of California and the California State University; the characteristics of those students who do and do not transfer; and the persistence and performance of…

The decline in Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores is a direct result of lower average performance on equating questions that are reused over a period of several years. Therefore, it is important to examine the content of representative questions, used over time, for possible obsolescence. Two panels, one concentrating on the verbal section of…

The hypothesis that the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) score decline is a result of changing American family sizes and configurations is explored. This possible explanation of declining SAT scores had been offered by Robert B. Zajonc in an article discussing the relation between family configuration and cognitive development. Since a number of…

Information on the geographic and institutional origins of students at Arkansas state and independent colleges and universities in the fall 1980 are presented in the first analytic report on these topics. Geographic origin is the legal residence of a student when admitted to an institution, and the institutional origin of undergraduate transfer…

The potential use of actual performance by high school students in college-level courses as a predictor of college achievement, rather than or in addition to Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores, was investigated. At Syracuse University Project Advance over 4,000 students a year in 80 high schools in four states participate in joint high school…

A study was conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to identify the variables affecting the academic success of community college transfer students. The study involved a survey of the 1,343 students who transferred to UCLA from a community college in Fall 1977. The questionnaire asked respondents to provide background…

Factors at the national, state, and institutional level that damage constructive relationships from the two-year college perspective are considered. Two-year institutions have felt that they have not received their proportionate share of attention or funds from the federal level, and that federal vocational education legislation has not protected…

The college designations of over 5,800 recent graduates of 60 private secondary schools and the relationships between characteristics of these schools and the average selectivity of the colleges attended for each school were investigated. Aggregating all graduates, the data show considerable success in gaining admission to selective, prestigious…

A survey of high school seniors was conducted in Alaska to provide a profile of Alaskan seniors and their postsecondary plans. A written questionnaire, consisting of 17 questions, was sent to all public secondary schools identified as having a twelfth grade and to all senior correspondence students. Responses represented 47 of the 51 districts,…

"Cooling out" was identified in 1960 as a specific function of the community college in redirecting students who experienced academic failure. The "soft" cooling out process, which re-directs students into less demanding curricula or out of the college through counseling and advising rather than academic discipline, will increasingly become a…

Transfer students from Los Angeles City College (LACC) are considered in terms of their eligibility to enter the University of California, i.e., their class standing at high school graduation, and their comparative performances at the University and LACC. Comparable data for all California community colleges are also provided. University of…

This paper studies two kinds of selection practices in schools, curriculum tracking and class ranking. Using multiple regression analyses of the National Longitudinal Survey (NLS), this paper finds that tracking and class ranks have important effects on whether students can attend college. However, it also finds that many students misperceive…