Purpose: The present paper seeks to analyze the role of social networks in the process of career exploration, including its main effect on search intensity, and moderation effect on the linkage between search intensity and job search confidence. Design/methodology/approach: It is a longitudinal design with 239 USA and 165 Chinese graduating…

The price of teacher attrition is high, not only financially, but also in terms of human and institutional costs. The inability to retain beginning teachers contributes significantly to teacher shortages. This study investigates the effect of the preparation program on teacher attrition. Attrition rates of elementary teacher graduates from two…

This paper provides an overview of telephone survey research by colleges and universities and reports on comparisons between mail survey respondents and non-respondents who were later contacted by telephone. After an introduction, the paper discusses the various steps of a telephone survey project. These include: (1) identifying the population to…

To inform decision-making regarding distance learning courses and options, two surveys were conducted in 1993. One, completed by 288 secondary and postsecondary institutions serving deaf learners, asked about interest in course offerings by the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and Rochester Institute of Technology (NTID/RIT). The other,…

In October 1992, Western Nebraska Community College (WNCC) surveyed all 173 students who had graduated between June 1991 and July 1992 to determine their current educational and employment status and their perceptions of WNCC. Completed surveys were received from 130 graduates, for a response rate of 75%. Study findings included the following: (1)…

This paper is the follow-up and concluding study to a previous publication (summer 1998) that depicted assessment on all levels of education as being too complex. This current document reviews collaborative efforts between public postsecondary institutions and coordinating boards of higher education to survey 2,363 alumni from Missouri's community…

The 1998 technical and further education (TAFE) graduate destination survey measured 66,000 vocational education and training (VET) graduates' employment, further study, and opinions. Findings indicated graduates' mean age was 31 years; 55.1 percent were women; 31.2 percent were from a non-English-speaking background; 6.0 percent reported some…

A study determined which activities in a capstone course were perceived to be the most beneficial to course completers with regard to their first professional position after graduation. It also compared the quality of selected capstone activities to other junior/senior level courses in the College of Agriculture at Iowa State University. A random…

A study examined whether, holding work experience and sex constant, exposure to vocational education during secondary school was related to incidence of nonfatal work-related injuries. Data were from the 1987 and 1988 annual National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience interviews of young adults who were between 14 and 21 years old on…

This working paper, part of an ongoing national study, presents preliminary analysis of public service professionalism among state public administrators in many states on the basis of data already produced by a continuing survey research project. Information about the data source and sample profiles are provided. Additionally, the research…

Opinions on undergraduate psychology programs were obtained from 348 psychology alumni who graduated between 1978 and 1988, and from 101 psychology faculty who taught during this same period on eight campuses of California State University. Twenty items reflecting student development and eight items measuring program quality were factor analyzed…

A model for testing educational satisfaction was developed, and a satisfaction survey was administered to 424 alumni of several architectural schools in the Midwest. Attention is directed to both a simple overall measure of satisfaction and a complex, additive measure. The first measure assumes that individuals perceive satisfaction and…

Four hundred ninety-six education graduates from Iowa State University (1980-81) responded to questionnaires asking them to provide demographic, occupational, and program evaluation information. Data were collected on: (1) students' academic records; (2) student teaching experiences; (3) self-evaluation as future teachers; (4) evaluations of the…

This study represents one phase of a larger research effort directed at the development and testing of a comprehensive teacher education evaluation model. The study focused primarily on obtaining attitudinal and occupational information from graduates of the Iowa State teacher education program one year after graduation. Student perceptions of…

This study examines the relationship between academic preparation in instructional technology programs, student characteristics, competency attainment, and on-the-job success. The subjects, who were 1980-85 graduates of the Wayne State University Instructional Technology programs, completed a mail survey that covered all of the variables for the…