Ranking 49th in total employment growth between 1978 and 1986, Iowa actually lost 0.48% of its workforce each year. Income fell 2.2% annually between 1978-86 (10% per annum in the farm industry) and unemployment rates doubled since the mid-1970s. This 1988 study describes the school-to-work transition of a sample of high school graduates, class of…

The Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) survey and a locally developed follow-up instrument were administered to students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The survey was completed by 264 students in the senior class of 1988 out of a sample size of 500 students; all of these students had completed the initial CIRP…

In recent years many colleges and universities have been offering various types of career classes to aid students with undecided majors choose their college major and future occupation. In an attempt to assess the effect of a short-term career class on undecided students, two groups of students enrolled in 1966 were assessed after 10 years. An…

Former Memphis State University male football and basketball players who had neither graduated nor succeeded in professional sports careers were interviewed to determine problems they had during and after college. Student records were also studied for the 23 football players and 9 basketball players who played their last season between 1978 and…

The study examined pre-, peri-, and neonatal factors in 271 British infants (weighing less than 1500 grams at birth), 188 of whom survived to 2 years. The study represented an attempt to define those factors which predict normal neurodevelopmental outcome in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants. Surviving infants were seen at 3, 6, 9, 12, and 24…

The study hypothesized that scatter analysis of the three subtest scale scores on the Meeting Street School Screening Test (gross motor patterning, visual-perceptual-motor, and language) given at the beginning of first grade would prove to be a more accurate predictor of future placement in a learning disabilities program than the cut-off total…

All graduates of Eastern Illinois University from 1982, 1983, 1984, and 1985 (n=7703) were compared on high school predictor scores (American College Testing--ACTs--and class ranks) and university grade point averages (GPA)--cumulative GPA, junior and senior GPA, and junior and senior GPA adjusted by removing professional education courses.…

A study was conducted to determine the educational outcomes of 663 former Community College of Philadelphia (CCP) students who applied for admission to Temple University. The study focused on Temple's admission decisions and their relationship to the students' programs of study and academic performance at CCP. Study findings included the…

The document examines the efforts to consolidate secondary vocational education and special education in Pierce County, Washington. Studies are described for three phases of the consolidation: (1) a determination of vocational education staff input and involvement in the Individualized Education Program (IEP) process at the secondary level (data…

In October 1985, Broome Community College (BCC) conducted its eleventh annual graduate survey. The survey was administered in-person during graduation rehearsal, and also mailed to those who did not attend rehearsal. Study findings, based on a 93% response rate, included the following: (1) 1183 students graduated from BCC as members of the class…

A study examined the ability of master teachers to maintain the learning environment and those competencies by which they were awarded master teacher rating. The five subjects studied were physical education teachers who obtained their Master Teacher degree at West Virginia University during the 1982-83 school year and who had been evaluated for…

Much has been written about the conflicts that women experience when they combine work and family roles into one life style. This study focused on how the issue of the marriage-career conflict played itself out in the lives of women who graduated from college in 1967. Data were obtained from a stratified random sample of female college graduates…

The prevalence of subtle handicapping conditions, such as learning disabilities, behavior problems, and recurrent illness, in a population of 88 high-risk infants was investigated when the children reached 9 years of age. Infants had had birthweights of less than 1500 grams or had required prolonged mechanical ventilation in the neonatal period.…

This study assessed long-term effects of an early education intervention for specific learning disabilities. Children at risk for learning problems were observed in classrooms performing analyzed tasks in five content areas: perceptual-motor, auditory, visual, cognitive, and social-emotional. Small-group instruction was then directed to the 37…

An attempt was made to determine whether a non-response bias exists in the annual follow-up surveys of graduates of teacher education programs when the surveys focus on more than employment. Subjects were 291 graduates of teacher certification programs at a major university in the southeastern United States from Fall 1986 through Summer 1987. In…