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Smith, Dixon; And Others – 1978
Of the 919 students who received associate degrees (72%), certificates of achievement (14%), or certificates of completion (14%) in June 1977 from one of the three campuses of the Community College of Denver, 698 responded to a follow-up survey six weeks after graduation. The survey report is divided into six sections. Part I looks at the…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Employment Patterns
Blai, Boris – 1979
Much of the institutional research conducted at Harcum Junior College, a private women's college, has focused on measuring the educational outcomes of students in relation to the college's objectives. Past studies have sought to determine how well Harcum prepares transfer curriculum students by analyzing rates of baccalaureate degree attainment,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Criteria
Coughenour, C. Milton; Coleman, A. Lee – 1979
Data from 1961, 1971, and 1973 surveys of households and community "knowledgeables" focused on the subjective assesssments of the quality of life (QOL) of residents of Harlan, Perry, Whitley, and Wolfe counties in Eastern Kentucky, and assessed policy implications. Overall, residents assessed their counties favorably. They rated wages…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Change, Community Problems, Community Satisfaction
Staines, Graham L.; And Others – 1977
The effects of wives' employment status on wives' and husbands' evaluations of their own marital adjustment were examined in two recent national surveys. Working wives whose husbands also work reported having wished they had married someone else and having thought of divorce significantly more often than housewives but did not score significantly…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Comparative Analysis, Employed Women, Employee Attitudes
Download full textSheppard, Bunny G. – 1979
The determination of those factors of motivation and hygiene which led to job satisfaction/dissatisfaction of forty-five randomly selected community education coordinators in six mid-Atlantic states was the primary purpose of this interview-oriented research study. A second purpose was to examine the relationship between age, gender, marital…
Descriptors: Achievement, Age, Community Coordination, Community Education
Romero, Det; And Others – 1975
This research report studied the relationship between families and day care centers as systems. Three levels of subjects were investigated: 23 day care centers in Lansing, Michigan, day care staffs and families of children enrolled. Three questionnaires were developed to obtain data on demographic and attitudinal variables. A director's…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Administrator Attitudes, Day Care, Day Care Centers
Metoyer, Cheryl – 1978
American Indian people have demonstrated their desire and need for responsive information service. It is fitting and appropriate that careful assessment, planning, implementation, and cooperation with other information agencies will enable the local reservation library to provide its community with the proper information, at the proper time, and…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Community Influence, Community Involvement
Mitchell, Marianne H. – 1979
A project was conducted to accomplish the following objectives: (1) to provide a pilot program in the Monroe County (Indiana) Public Library where low-income or unemployed adults can find non-biased, non-stereotyped vocational information, guidance, and referral in the areas of job training, job opportunities, required skills, job descriptions,…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Guidance, Community Information Services, Disadvantaged
Goodwin, Judy – 1980
Philadelphia's Follow Through program in 14 schools was evaluated in terms of its educational, staff development, parent involvement, health services, and social services components. Cross-sectional reading and mathematics achievement data indicated that the Follow Through participants outperformed the non-Follow Through Title I group.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ancillary School Services, Compensatory Education, Elementary School Mathematics
MOORE, PAULINE E. – 1966
THIS STUDY WAS PART OF A LARGER RESEARCH PROJECT CONCERNED WITH NORTH CAROLINA 4-H EXTENSION AGENTS' PERCEPTION OF THEIR ROLE IN THE 4-H PROGRAM. THIS PARTICULAR STUDY DEALT WITH (1) THE DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY AGENTS ENCOUNTERED IN PERFORMANCE OF 37 TASKS APPROPRIATE TO THE 4-H AGENTS' ROLE, AND (2) TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES WHICH WOULD HELP THEM IN…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Extension Agents, Individual Characteristics, Inservice Education
Ashley, William L.; And Others – 1980
A study of adaptation to work as both a process and an outcome was conducted. The study was conducted by personal interview that probed adaptation with respect to work's organizational, performance, interpersonal, responsibility, and affective aspects; and by questionnaire using the same aspects. The population studied consisted of persons without…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Employee Attitudes, Entry Workers
Buckley, Elizabeth; Rauch, David – 1979
A three-year study evaluated the cognitive and affective effect of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) on adult basic education (ABE) students at the Great Neck Adult Learning Centers. The system was used by learning laboratory students in 1977 and by both learning laboratory and classroom students from 1977-1979. The 100 students enrolled from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction
Solmon, Lewis C.; Ochsner, Nancy – 1978
The attitudes and behaviors of college graduates several years after graduation and the changes in their attitudes from their freshman year (1970) until the time of a followup survey (1977) were studied. The following areas were covered with the 9,000 respondents: life goals, religious preferences, how the college graduates spend their time,…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, College Freshmen, College Graduates, Followup Studies
Dailey, Dianne; Stafford, Thomas H., Jr. – 1975
A study was conducted at North Carolina State University to evaluate coed residence halls. The study objectives were to compare changes in the following variables for coed residents with those for residents of single sex halls: self-confidence, participation in campus and residence hall activities, perceived personal development in relationships…
Descriptors: Coeducation, College Housing, College Students, Dormitories
Corbitt, Gail – 1979
ARAP-SIS, Arapahoe Community College's (ACC's) student follow-up system, consists of seven subsystems. Between 1976 and 1978, five of these were implemented. Data from the goals and intent subsystem revealed that 60% of the students who declared a goal intended to receive an associate degree in an academic field, though many were occupational…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Enrollment Influences
