Preliminary results of the 1979 Doctorate Employment Survey, which is designed to assess the employment experiences of new doctorates in psychology, are briefly described. The survey focuses on employment status, employment settings, and salaries, and is the first survey designed to allow respondents to provide detailed information on their…

A sample of graduates from the terminal grades of upper secondary school in Sweden were studied in 1970 and 1971 to determine the relationship between choice of postsecondary studies and the students' previous level of achievement, social background, interests, attitudes to school, and education. For males, it was found that a considerable portion…

A questionnaire was designed and administered by North Texas State University to determine why students drop out of the school. Of the 3,180 undergraduate dropouts who were surveyed, usable responses were received from 678. Demographic information on each student was obtained from the computerized student master file and was used for descriptive…

An important objective of many educational institutions is to prepare students for work. School officials need a "good" measure to know how effectively and efficiently their programs are meeting this objective. Three commonly used measures of measuring a school's performance are placement rates, the proportion of graduates in education-related…

During the 1976-77 academic year, 231 students in career programs at Johnson County Community College either graduated or left the program with marketable skills. A follow-up of 188 of these students indicated the following: their average age was 27 (median, 23); 30% were 21 years of age or younger; 54% were females; 66% enrolled to acquire job…

The myth that only the high school student who is at or near the top of his class can succeed at a four-year college is not upheld for graduates of Laguna-Acoma High School (LAHS) in New Mexico. Many sources provide accurate gradepoint averages (GPA), American College Test (ACT) scores and Rank in Class (RIC) for the LAHS students who took the ACT…

The conceptual model of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS) has been modified from James Trent's General Educational Development Model. The NLS model is presented and briefly compared with the General Educational Development Model. The major portion of this document consists of NLS questionnaire items or…

This final report describes activities of a Parent Education Center (PEC) at the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL). The PEC was designed to serve the needs of practitioners, professionals and researchers in the field of parent education and to provide them with up-to-date information on parent education materials, programs and…

Findings on those aspects of participants' activities related to personal history and career choices both before and after graduation are reported in this second of a two-volume report on the findings of the Longitudinal Career Pattern Study of Graduates of the University of Tennessee College of Nursing, 1954-1974. The first two chapters describe…

This handbook is designed to illustrate how educational and community personnel in six school districts used a specific planning model to initiate comprehensive career guidance program planning and implementation. It contains a discussion of the Programmatic Approach to Guidance Excellence (PAGE 2) planning model and materials (an instructional…

Information on the use and effectiveness of follow-up surveys in four-year and two-year institutions are obtained. In the four-year sector, 55 public and 34 private colleges were included, while in the two-year sector, the entire public systems of four states were compared. This involved 15 institutions in Georgia, 17 in Maryland, 16 in South…

THE NATURE OF THE RESEARCH ACTIVITIES OF 56 PROJECTS WAS REVIEWED TO FIND WHY USEFUL NEW KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING PROBLEMS WAS NOT RESULTING FROM THE PROGRAMS. ALSO ANALYZED WAS THE UTILITY OF FOLLOWUP STUDIES FOR GAINING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PROJECTS. BOTH SUBJECTS OF INQUIRY WERE CONSIDERED AGAINST THE…

PREKINDERGARTENS IN 8 NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL SYSTEMS WERE EVALUATED TO FIND OUT IF THE CHILDREN INVOLVED SHOWED INCREASED CAPACITY TO LEARN, AND IMPROVEMENT IN LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE SKILLS. 1010 DISADVANTAGED AND 225 NONDISADVANTAGED SUBJECTS WERE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO EXPERIMENTAL AND CONTROL GROUPS AND PRE- AND POST-TESTED WITH THE STANFORD-BINET…

A QUESTIONNAIRE OF 129 ITEMS (MOSTLY MULTIPLE CHOICE OR SHORT ANSWER) WAS SENT TO FORMER STUDENTS WHO WERE GRADUATED BETWEEN 1908 AND 1958 FROM THE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF (JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 47 MANHATTAN) IN NEW YORK CITY. THE QUESTIONNAIRE GATHERED INFORMATION ON FAMILY BACKGROUND, SCHOOL HISTORY, OCCUPATION, HEARING AND SPEECH, LEISURE TIME…

TO DETERMINE WHETHER GRADUATES HAD BEGUN TO REALIZE THEIR ASPIRATIONS AND TO ASSESS THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF CHICAGO CITY COLLEGE (CCC) TO THEIR PRESENT STATUS, DATA FROM A 55 PERCENT RESPONSE TO A QUESTIONNAIRE 15 MONTHS AFTER GRADUATION WERE COMPARED WITH A STUDY CONDUCTED IMMEDIATELY AFTER GRADUATION. THE INVENTORY IDENTIFIES THOSE GRADUATES…