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Research Triangle Inst., Durham, NC. Center for Educational Research and Evaluation. – 1976
After reviewing the research design, objectives, and basic conceptual model for the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS), this document describes the survey plan and issues for the third followup survey. Data analyses--both those that are in progress or planned--are summarized. These activities include composite score…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Followup Studies, Graduate Surveys, High School Graduates
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Occupational Education Research. – 1978
The purpose of this study was to determine whether Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) project completers in the college adapter program (CAP) have shown evidence of successful performance in a postsecondary program. Specific objectives of the project were (1) to determine the number of CETA project completers who matriculated at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Admission (School), College Admission
SUMMERS, LINDEN D., JR.; LETTIS, DONALD R. – 1966
A SUMMER PROGRAM WAS ESTABLISHED AT COLGATE UNIVERSITY (1) TO MOTIVATE ADOLESCENT MALE DROPOUTS TOWARD EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AND (2) TO ENCOURAGE IN THEM MORE POSITIVE ATTITUDES TOWARD ART AND SOCIETY. THE PROGRAM CENTERED AROUND AN ART CLASS SINCE ART WAS AN AREA ABOUT WHICH STUDENTS HAD EXPERIENCED THE LEAST FRUSTRATION AND FAILURE. STUDENTS…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Art Activities, Art Education, Attitude Change
American Personnel and Guidance Association, Washington, DC. – 1968
The achievement of more adequate vocational guidance services in the nation's schools through the improvement of state supervisory service, was the major objective of the seminar. In additon to 72 state guidance supervisory staff members from 47 states, seminar participants and leadership personnel included 14 counselor educators, 12 state-level…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Conference Reports, Counselor Training, Followup Studies
Tuttle, David Chester – 1965
Interviews collected information from 135 graduates of the trades and industrial cooperative education training program, and 30 employers in Des Moines, Iowa, to appraise the effectiveness of training in relation to post high school employment. Graduates and employers commented on the value of core area training, school counseling, and different…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Cooperative Education, Doctoral Dissertations, Employers
Magary, James F., Ed.; McIntyre, Robert B., Ed. – 1967
The University of Southern California School of Education invited several persons in the field of special education to lecture at a specially designated summer session series. The following lectures were delivered in the summer of 1966: "Headstart on Headstart: A Thirty Year Evaluation" by Harold M. Skeels, "The Role of Language in…
Descriptors: Classification, Disadvantaged Youth, Down Syndrome, Exceptional Child Education
Westervelt, Esther M. – 1968
The New York State Guidance Center for Women in Suffern, New York provides individual counseling and vocational and educational information. During the months covered by this report, the Center cosponsored a conference on continuing education for women in the two-year colleges of the State University, began a second series of career information…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Disadvantaged, Females, Field Experience Programs
Queensborough Community Coll., Bayside, NY. – 1977
A followup survey of 1962 to 1974 alumni of Queensborough Community College (QCC) was initiated in spring 1975 to gather information on their education attainments, fields of employment, current educational activities, earnings, perceptions of QCC and suggestions to improve the college. A total of 3,015 graduates responded, or 40.7%. Summary…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Employment Patterns, Followup Studies, Graduate Surveys
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Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Community Coll. System. – 1977
A survey was conducted of 763 students who were enrolled in Hawaii community colleges during the three semesters fall 1975 through fall 1976 but who were not enrolled in spring 1977, in order to obtain information on the activities and educational plans of these non-continuers, their reasons for non-continuance, and their evaluations of their…
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, Community Colleges, Dropouts, Employment Patterns
Carmody, Timothy P. – 1977
A sample of 63 subassertive adults participated in four 90-minute sessions of group assertion training. The treatment components of challenging maladaptive cognitions and learning self-instructions were examined by comparing Rational-Emotive, Self-Instructional, and Behavioral Assertion Training. A delayed-treatment control group was also…
Descriptors: Adults, Anxiety, Assertiveness, Behavior Change
Armstrong, David F.; Pressley, John F. – 1978
As part of an annual graduate follow-up study, questionnaires were sent to all students who graduated from Montgomery College (MC) during the 1976-77 academic year in an associate degree or certificate program; 691 (62%) responded. Major reasons for attending MC were low cost, program offerings and convenient location, the same reasons reported in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Counseling Effectiveness, Employment Patterns, Followup Studies
Scott, David C. – 1975
A group of 41 registered nursing graduates of the 1974 class at Bakersfield College was surveyed in the summer of 1974 as part of a nursing education follow-up study. In the summer of 1975, the same group was surveyed again in order to compare the perceptions and aspirations reported by the graduates one year after graduation with those reported…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Followup Studies, Graduate Surveys, Institutional Research
Warren, Edward N.; Finch, Willard C. – 1974
A total of 160 high school students in the Pitt County and the Greenville city school systems participated in two summer institutes which were conducted to alter the attitudes and interests of students regarding vocational education. Participants for the institutes were chosen from the top two academic quartiles, after which an experimental and…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes, College Choice, Educational Research
Collister, Larry – 1975
Twenty-seven mildly and moderately mentally handicapped special education graduates from a special school and 23 mildly and moderately mentally handicapped special education graduates from a mainstream school were interviewed to determine long range benefits of each program. Interviews 1 and 2 years after graduation were designed to measure…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment, Exceptional Child Research, Followup Studies
Advanced Statistics for Management Bulletin, 1975
The bulletin presents selected results of the first followup survey of the national longitudinal study of the high school class of 1972, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics. Information is presented, in percentages (weighed national estimates), on the personal characteristics, postsecondary schooling, and civilian work…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Research, Followup Studies, Graduate Surveys
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