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1979
The Michigan Student Information System (MiSIS) is the student flow component of the Michigan Community College Occupational Education Evaluation System (MCCOEES), a comprehensive state-wide system for evaluating occupational education. This manual provides comprehensive guidelines for collecting local management information for program and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Continuing Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Houston Independent School District, TX. – 1986
The Houston Regional High-Technology Delivery System Model for Adult Literacy meets the need for a technology-based system to deliver instruction in basic literacy skills. The system provides multilevel instruction in reading, writing, and computation skills to out-of-school youth and under-educated adults. A variety of technologies are used to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Bilingual Education, Computer Assisted Instruction
Jonas, Edward D., Jr. – 1987
The Atlanta (Georgia) Public School System (APS) has many existing dropout prevention programs, but they have been operating primarily independently, with limited information sharing or coordination. In 1986 these programs were linked through the formation of the Atlanta Dropout Prevention Collaborative, which unites the public school system with…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Ancillary School Services, Dropout Programs, Dropout Research
Youth Studies Abstracts, 1984
This compilation of 47 abstracts of materials--papers, studies, reports, reviews--and citations to 46 periodicals is the second of two parts. This part contains abstracts in one category: programs (proposals, reports, evaluations). Abstracts are arranged in clusters according to prime subject matter. Topics covered, listed at the front of the…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Education Work Relationship
Prairie View A and M Univ., TX. – 1981
This study was conducted to develop, implement, prototype test, and disseminate a model guidance training program that can be used to prevent the high rate of student dropouts in rural Texas schools. Two school districts, New Caney and Waller, served as demonstration sites for prototype testing. The program was designed by a team of…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Career Choice, Career Guidance, Citizen Role
Gutierrez, James – 1981
Information was collected from 28 Chicano, 42 Chicana, 36 non-Chicano, and 52 non-Chicana students to identify reasons for Chicana attrition from the University of Southern Colorado. Information was also collected from 14 Chicanas who had already dropped out of college. Most of the data were collected at registration for spring semester, 1980. The…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, College Attendance, College Students
Gorter, Sandy – 1978
A survey was conducted at Mercer County Community College to determine the demographic characteristics, number of credits, grade point average (GPA), academic program, reasons for not returning, current working and educational status, and opinions of the college of part- and full-time students who enrolled for the fall 1977 semester and did not…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Age, College Credits
Shah, Saeed Ullah; Eastmond, Jefferson N. – 1977
Data collection from 25 school districts throughout Pakistan and subsequent educational experiments in selected villages highlight 1976-77 research to identify causes of primary school dropout and to suggest primary education improvements to benefit Pakistan's rural poor, especially women. In the 416 villages studied only 1/3 of the total primary…
Descriptors: Attendance, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Developing Nations
BOTTIGLIA, WILLIAM F. – 1957
THE SIX WORKING COMMITTEES OF THE 1957 NORTHEAST CONFERENCE ON THE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES CONTRIBUTED TO THIS VOLUME OF REPORTS ON VARIOUS, INDEPENDENT ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION. THE REPORT PREPARED BY BLANCHE A. PRICE AND HER COMMITTEE ON THE ARTICULATION OF HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE LANGUAGE PROGRAMS CITES MATERIALS AND METHODS THAT…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Aids, College Language Programs
Download full textGarber, Herbert; Schell, Robert E. – 1977
Attrition rates at the State University of New York at Oswego are investigated in this paper. In 1975-76 51 percent of the students who entered as freshmen failed to graduate. The major objective of the study was to isolate and describe the differences that exist in the rates and modes of attrition among students who entered the college as…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Admission (School)
Reap, Margaret C. – 1979
Findings are presented for each of five surveys conducted by North Harris County College using the Texas Student Information System (TEX-SIS). The report first presents and discusses the results of an educational intent survey, based on responses from approximately 7,395 students registered in credit hour courses during 1977-78. Results of a…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adult Students, Adult Vocational Education, College Graduates
Hobbs, Daryl J.; Hobbs, Vicki M. – 1979
Administrators, counselors, university faculty, and dropouts met initially to discuss the dropout problem and to design a questionnaire which was administered to 270 dropouts from secondary schools in 5 Missouri Ozark school districts and was designed primarily to determine the perceived need or desire for additional vocational or academic…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Counseling Services, Counselor Attitudes, Dropout Attitudes
Bond, Arthur J.; And Others – 1977
The third in a series of four monographs, this study focuses on Black engineering students at Purdue University who persisted, withdrew, or transferred. A survey of the students was conducted to determine factors that influence retention and attrition of Black American students in engineering. A comparison of the pre-college and college…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Education, Black Students, College Choice
King, Randall Howard – 1978
A study, growing out of human capital theory, examined the economic consequences of dropping out of high school. Effect of schooling over time on labor market success (hourly pay rate, occupational prestige, and employment incidence and duration) was measured. Data on young men and women was obtained from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Differences, Dropout Rate
ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges, Los Angeles, CA. – 1969
This document contains the first three volumes of the Junior College Research Review. Topics relate to various aspects of the junior college including students, faculty, instructional programs, institutional research, guidance, testing, administration, and facilities. For the remaining volumes of this publication, see JC 720 156 and JC 720 157…
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Faculty, Curriculum Research, Dropout Research
