This report presents findings of the second follow-up in the Baccalaureate and Beyond Study, a longitudinal study which is tracking students who received a bachelor's degree in academic year 1992-93. Major findings indicated that: (1) when they graduated from college, 85 percent of the degree recipients expected to earn an advanced degree; by…

Described is a comprehensive prevocational services program for educable mentally handicapped high school students sponsored jointly by an area department of special education and a state division of vocational rehabilitation. (MC)

Reports follow-up of teacher institutes conducted at Oklahoma State University (OSU) in 1965 and 1966. Based on doctoral dissertation, "Variables Influencing Teacher Adoption of Cooperative Agricultural Occupations Curricula, completed at OSU in 1968. More complete reports appear as ED 023 867 and ED 023 922 (RIE, March 1969). (DM)

Examines the methods and findings of a longitudinal assessment of an Upward Bound program's successes in increasing college attendance and academic achievement among 56 ninth, tenth, and eleventh graders. Reveals no significant gains in reading or spelling, but significant achievements in language arts and quantitative skills. (Author/DMM)

Reviews the literature in the ERIC collection regarding the role of institutional research in the community college planning process. Addresses comprehensive and master planning, budgeting, program planning and evaluation, student follow-up, student information systems, and computer support. (DD)

Evaluated an intervention program for child abusers using multiple outcome criteria and extended follow-up. Findings indicated that training abusive parents in child-management and self-control techniques resulted in improvements in parenting skills. A one-year follow-up found no incidences of child abuse among treatment families reported to or…

A study that investigated the performance of 129 students who transferred from two-year technical programs to the University of Michigan's Undergraduate Occupational Teacher Education Program (UOTEP) is described. To determine how successful students had been during enrollment and after graduation, transcripts were reviewed and a survey was…

The rate of return on investments in higher education, defined as a measure of productivity that relates the costs of resources expended in instruction to the value of benefits produced, is discussed and computed for several student populations. The concepts of "overeducation" and "underemployment" are also discussed. (SF)

Surveys of students and alumni are viewed as helpful by accrediting teams, college recruiters, career counseling and placement officers, current and prospective students, etc. Only in large-scale national surveys like Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) is there potential for individual colleges to utilize data for their own…

This study provides follow-up data from surveys of practicing elementary and secondary teachers (N=80) who completed a curriculum infusion model at a large midwestern teachers' college. Most had had no contact with disabled students during student teaching and reported receiving inadequate training in Individual Education Plans, classroom…

Results of three studies in the Ottawa area are reported: a study of postsecondary offerings in French for second-language speakers at four universities; a survey of first-year anglophone students at the University of Ottawa concerning future language study; and a followup of immersion graduates in the four universities. Recommendations are made.…

This study investigated the supply and demand of leadership personnel in special education and communication disorders. An analysis of failed college faculty searches in 1988 supported predictions about demand outstripping supply. The shortage was most acute at institutions of higher education with small departmental faculties. (DB)

Young adults (n=391) with and without deafness and their parents were interviewed 3-4 years after high school. Results indicated that parents and both groups of young people were relatively consistent in how they responded to the same questions, with more agreement in the agency assistance and community adjustment domains than in the high school…

Provides an annotated bibliography of selected sources on applied community college research from 1992 available through the ERIC database. Includes research on instructional concerns, managerial concerns, student surveys (longitudinal), student surveys (cross-sectional), and student follow-up studies. (43 sources) (MAB)

This follow up of 24 teenagers who had participated in a study of phonological analysis and reading and spelling abilities 11 years earlier found that phonological awareness in kindergarten was a significant predictor of later word identification and spelling skills. In contrast, socioeconomic status, vocabulary development, word recognition, and…