This document includes reports of two follow-up studies of New River Community College graduates. The 1973 graduates in transfer programs, associate of arts, and associate of science degree programs are examined in terms of: (1) types of degrees and curriculums they completed; (2) their transfer status; (3) their evaluation of the New River…

In order to evaluate long-term benefits to students, William Rainey Harper College conducted five- and three-year followup studies of all 1970 and 1972 alumni. The population was defined as students who had accumulated 48 or more credit hours or had received a degree. In all, 385 1970 alumni, and 1,154 1972 alumni were surveyed by mail or…

This document provides a means of improving and formalizing the communication of institutional research conducted at the 23 colleges in the Virginia Community College System. Over 160 reports are arranged in three sections. The first section annotates 44 of the studies, which were selected on the basis of anticipated interest, quality of study…

This bibliography lists the reports of research studies conducted at the 23 colleges in the Virginia Community College System during the 1974-75 academic year. Over 124 studies are divided into three sections. The first section provides annotations for 61 of the studies, selected on the basis of anticipated interest, quality of study design,…

The report describes a follow-up telephone survey of occupational/educational information of 860 1974 high school graduates from a three-county ten-school district area in mid-Missouri, taken nine months after graduation. In most cases the guidance counselor contacted the graduates, their parents, or reliable relatives or friends and completed the…

The survey population for the study consisted of 1,025 Vocational Preparatory completions in Sarasota County, Florida, from whom a 63% response rate was obtained. Information was sought concerning their availability for employment, employment experience, relevance of education to employment, place of work, wages, method used in securing work,…

The study consists of a followup survey of about 4,000 recipients of vocational rehabilitation (VR) services in six States over a three year period (1967-69). The objectives were (1) to describe employment levels of VR cases after closure, (2) to conduct cost/benefit analyses of services provided, and (3) to identify salient characteristics…

This report details the development and implementation of a follow-up system, by Western Texas Community College (WTCC) as a subcontractor for Project FOLLOW-UP, relating student flow patterns to educational goals. Phase I of this project involved establishment of a data base which included elements designed to reveal an adequate picture of…

This study presents an evaluation by student teachers of a one-year internship program initiated in 1972 in the Hamburg central school system. The Teacher Education Research Center (TERC) program was field-centered and competency-based, and provided the opportunity to develop teaching competencies in 12 categories. The evaluation instrument was…

This report describes post-community college activities of former occupational/technical students at 13 Virginia community colleges. The colleges identified 11,623 former students as eligible, of whom 3,433 were graduates who had earned an associate degree, diploma, or certificate. An overall response rate of 61 percent was obtained, 73 percent…

One thousand and fifty-eight graduates from Carrollton High School (Michigan) between 1964 and 1975 were involved in a normative survey using a two-page questionnaire and telephone followup. It was hoped to discover strengths and weaknesses that might exist in the school's curriculum and to determine if the quality of education had met the needs…

This national survey is broken down into four main sections: 1) supply of new teachers; 2) demand for new teachers; 3) supply compared with demand for new teachers; 4) education completed by public school teachers. In the first section statistics are given for education majors graduated in each subject field and in each state. The number of new…

Followup is a process by which an educational institution seeks to determine how effectively it is meeting the current and future needs of those it serves. Various research, administrative and student personnel at district and state levels helped develop these guidelines, which are intended to give assistance to vocational, technical, and adult…

Morehead State University conducted inservice workshops in home management for 42 social caseworkers in eastern Kentucky. The subjects covered were community resources; family planning; clothing, gardening, and nutrition; and environmental sanitation and home nursing. Teaching methods included lectures, field trips, buzz sessions, questions and…

Presented is a longitudinal followup study some 4-10 years later of 569 mentally handicapped adults discharged from the Pineland Hospital and Training Center. Described are the setting in which the research was done (the institution, the field, and the State of Maine), relevant literature, the methodology of the data collection and analysis, and…