THE PURPOSE OF THIS INVESTIGATION WAS TO FOLLOW-UP, AS SEVENTH GRADERS, TWO GROUPS OF CHILDREN WHO HAD PARTICIPATED IN A PREVENTIVE MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM IN THE SCHOOL SETTING AND HAD BEEN EVALUATED FOR THEIR POTENTIAL FOR HAVING ADJUSTMENT PROBLEMS. THE SEVENTH GRADE EVALUATIONS WERE COMPREHENSIVE, INCLUDING A VARIETY OF SCHOOL RECORD AND…

After a period of time in the Work Opportunity Center (WOC) training program in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 32 boys and 22 girls were re-administered a self-attitude checklist to determine any changes in self-perception. Approximately 60% made improvements. At the time, the 54 individuals responded to a questionnaire soliciting information and…

PHASE ONE OF THIS STUDY IS A FOLLOWUP, BEGINNING MARCH 1968, OF GRADUATES OF OCCUPATIONAL CURRICULUMS. OF THE 429 GRADUATES QUESTIONED, 211 (49.18 PERCENT) REPLIED. INFORMATION WAS SOUGHT ON THE JOBS THEY TOOK, THE SALARY RANGES, THE KIND OF FIRMS HIRING THEM, HOW MANY WENT ON TO 4-YEAR SCHOOLS, WHICH SCHOOLS THEY WENT TO, AND WHETHER ON A FULL-…

Three research projects conducted by three major televised FLES programs attempted to assess the effect of follow-up activities by the classroom teacher. The programs involved in the projects were "Parlons Francais," the University of Illinois Foreign Language Instruction Project (Spanish), and the Denver-Stanford Project on the Context…

Six hundred l970 and l975 graduates of the Teacher Education Program (TEP) of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale were surveyed on biographical and workrelated data, on the graduates' perceptions of their own competencies in the areas of planning, instruction, and evaluation, and on their perceptions of the degree to which the TEP was…

A two-part survey of 265 of Montana's approximately 2,300 post-secondary vocational technical education students was designed to measure student job skills in the State's job market and to provide a base for improving vocational education. The first part involved mailing questionnaires to 600 students randomly selected from 897, and was…

The purpose of the study was to obtain employment status information for students six months after graduation from high school, to compare the similarity of the students' responses to teachers' report of the students' employment status, and to determine if there were any variations in reports of employment status from one occupational field to…

The status of any college's alumni is one measure of the success or failure of that college. Recognizing this rather widely accepted principle, New College conducted a survey of its graduates who completed their BA degree sometime between 1968 and 1974. A questionnaire was prepared asking the graduates for information about their current address,…

An annual survey of non-returning Montgomery College students from the years 1971 to 1973 was conducted in order to examine reasons for choosing to leave the college, identify trends, determine the status of students at the time of the survey, and assess the impact of their college experience on current activities. The 454 usable responses (20…

In order to examine changes in: (1) occupational aspirations, (2) perceptions of goal blockages to occupational aspirations, and (3) values associated with occupational choice, a sample of South Carolina young adults were surveyed. Useable data were obtained from 75 white and 75 black males and 50 white and 50 black females who had been contacted…

A followup of the original results of a curriculum unit, "Planning Ahead for the World of Work", for high school women was conducted one year after the unit was tested. The followup included 247 of the 326 home economics students who participated in the original study. The conclusions concerning the retained effect of the unit were: (1) some of…

An assessment of the reliability of the followup questionnaire given to 715 graduates of the postsecondary Minnesota Area Vocational-Technical Institutes is presented. The questionnaire was designed to gather information that would facilitate decision making concerning vocational programs. Reliability was based on the consistency of group…

This is a followup survey of the 1964 graduation classes of two high schools from the Salinas Union High School District. The survey starts with a classification of the sex, ethnic/racial composition, four-year grade-point-average, derived I.Q. and programs, followed by a statistical description of the 1964 graduating class. Following is a general…

A followup study of 151 lower socioeconomic class children (under 6 years of age at the time of initial screening) was conducted to determine the effectiveness of the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) in predicting school achievement problems. Ss were originally categorized into three age groups (0-2 years, 2-4 years, and 4-6 years) and…

This paper reports an overview of Project FOLLOW-UP, whose purpose was to develop, test, and validate a statewide management information system for follow-up of Texas public junior and community college students. The system designed is for use by machine or manual processing and is thus useful to small and large institutions while interfacing with…