A survey of grade 12 students in Ontario, conducted in spring 1973, sought to identify what factors influence an adolescent's future educational and vocational plans. A followup telephone survey of the same grade 12 students was conducted in November 1973 to evaluate the predictive utility of an "intentions" survey. The objectives of…

Four annual attrition studies prepared at El Paso Community College are collected in this document. Each year, a similar followup survey was sent to students who had enrolled in the fall but failed to return for the spring semesters. In all four studies, the major reasons given for leaving college were financial difficulties, transfer to another…

This report is a followup of an earlier study which attempted to assess the effectiveness of a Montessori program for preschool inner-city children. Data collected from the children over a 3-year followup period is analyzed, and the children's performance is compared with that of various control groups. There was some evidence that children in the…

A followup study was conducted of all 493 William Rainey Harper College students who achieved alumni status (48 hours or more or a degree) during the 1974-75 academic year in a career field. Between 279 returns to a mailed survey instrument, and 134 telephone interviews, a total of 413 responses were gathered, an 83.8 percent response rate. About…

A total of 712 students graduated from the seven institutions in the New Hampshire Post-Secondary Vocational-Technical Education System in 1975. In spite of the high unemployment rate in the State, 70 percent, or 495 of the eligible graduates were employed full-time by September 30, 1975; 3 percent were employed part-time, 12 percent were…

This study summarizes data on the number of transfer students from various California community colleges to the 20 California state universities. Table 1 shows the distribution of the percentage of students from community colleges attending state universities. Each of seven colleges contribute 3 percent of the total, 19 colleges contribute 2…

The basis for this study of characteristics of college graduates recruited into elementary and secondary teaching careers was a sample from an American Council on Education 1967 freshmen survey and a 1971 followup of this sample. The study focuses on two points of early career development: career choices during college and the employment of…

The fifth of a series of six monographs provides followup data on 467 former students of three postsecondary vocational technical programs for the deaf. Introductory information includes objectives of the study (such as providing developing postsecondary programs with guidelines for establishing programs for the deaf) and a summary of the contents…

Presenting the findings of five different evaluators and/or evaluation teams, this 1974 evaluation of the Navajo Rough Rock Demonstration School is organized as follows: (1) an evaluation of Rough Rock's administration; (2) a followup report re the 1972 Rough Rock Evaluation Report; (3) a list of the curriculum evaluation criteria; (4) an…

This report presents the findings of a research study, conducted by the College of the Mainland (COM) as a subcontractor for Project FOLLOW-UP, designed to test the accuracy of random sampling and to measure non-response bias in mail surveys. In 1975, a computer-generated random sample of 500 students was drawn from a population of 1,256 students…

The document focuses on a followup survey of Sarasota County high school graduates six months after graduation. Changes in the survey instrument are discussed and compared with the survey used in the previous year. The survey was given to all June 1974 high school graduates in four daytime high schools (1,083 of which 779 responded) and in the…

Examined was the effect of low frequency auditory and kinesthetic stimulation on the sleep behavior of seven premature normal infants. Stimulation consisted of positioning in a rockerbed and exposure to a recorded heartbeat for 15 minutes an hour. Measured were Ss's sleep wakefulness, weight change, and gestational development. Analysis of the…

This report is one of a series based on a longitudinal study of the postsecondary education and careers of the college freshmen of 1961 and 1966. Findings are categorized into three areas: baccalaureate completion, graduate study, and employment patterns. Regarding baccalaureate completions, highlights indicate: (1) Among the 705,512 freshmen who…

This report presents termination and followup evaluations of a parent training program based on behavior modification principles. Treatment termination outcome data was obtained for 22 families, and followup data was collected on 14 of these families at three and eight months after treatment. Results indicated a fairly high level of success at…

In a followup study to collect data which could be used for the evaluation and improvement of secondary occupational education programs in agriculture in New York State, questionnaires were sent to respondents of the original survey (agricultural graduates from the classes of 1968 and 1970 and their employers). From the 1968 class, questionnaires…