THE CONTRIBUTION OF JUNIOR COLLEGES TO THE SUCCESS OF WORK EXPERIENCES AND ACTIVITIES OF MALE ALUMNI IS INVESTIGATED. INFORMATION WAS GATHERED FROM THE RECORDS OF THREE JUNIOR COLLEGES, QUESTIONNAIRES SENT TO ALUMNI 3 YEARS AFTER THEIR GRADUATION, AND INTERVIEWS HELD WITH A SELECTED NUMBER OF GRADUATES. THE INFORMATION COLLECTED SERVES AS A DEVICE…

RECORDS IN THE OFFICE OF THE UTAH STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION WERE SURVEYED TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH TERMINAL HIGH SCHOOL VOCATIONAL STUDENTS ENTERED WORK IN THE OCCUPATION FOR WHICH THEY WERE TRAINED, IN RELATED OCCUPATIONS, AND IN AREAS UNRELATED TO THEIR HIGH SCHOOL VOCATIONAL PROGRAM. ONLY 1966 GRADUATES WERE STUDIED.…

THE OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY WERE TO DETERMINE THE OCCUPATIONAL STATUS OF FORMER STUDENTS, THE EXTENT TO WHICH THEIR EMPLOYMENT WAS RELATED TO TRAINING IN VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE, THE EFFECT OF ENROLLMENT TENURE ON EVENTUAL EMPLOYMENT, AND THE EMPLOYMENT RATE. THE SAMPLE FROM 12 SCHOOLS INCLUDED 794 FORMER STUDENTS WHO GRADUATED OR DROPPED OUT OF…

Accumulated data on the record of more than 100,000 persons who completed Manpower Development and Training Act institutional training during 1965 and 1966 and who were reported as employed following their training were used in this report. The study examined the effectiveness of the training program in upgrading its graduates and, in so doing,…

A 67 percent response was obtained from 2,165 graduates of three types of vocational programs who were surveyed approximately 18 months after graduation to determine and compare their degree of satisfaction with their high school programs and their jobs, programs are: (1) total in-school vocational program; (2) Capstone program--in-school…

The purpose of the mobility study was to determine what number and percentage of secondary, postsecondary, and full-time adult graduates of vocational-technical programs in Oklahoma find or seek employment in the same geographic region of their graduation. It was also determined what number and percentage of graduates leave the region to seek…

To determine the reasons why graduates of agricultural education do not enter the profession, or chose to leave it after a period of time, a mailed questionnaire survey was conducted on agricultural education graduates from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from 1968-73. Twenty-four non-teaching graduates were identified and…

This study was designed to determine the career profiles of all science teacher graduates during the three study years from the Iowa Regents institutions. A questionnaire was mailed to each graduate, and responses were categorized into one of nine career profile patterns. An examination of the end point of each career pattern indicated that: 54…

A descriptive study for the state of Oklahoma was conducted to follow up the career choices of those high school students who had earlier responded with biology careers as their educational aspiration. A questionnaire was sent to these students. Over 70 percent of the respondents in higher education had changed their majors. More changed to…

This project was conducted to assess the condition of followup studies throughout the state and to develop an instrument for gathering data relative to the employment and educational status of former students of the community colleges and technical institutes in the North Carolina system. Data-gathering instruments and existing data from the…

Forty-seven (51.1 percent) of the 92 graduates of the Dental Hygiene program completed a questionnaire designed to provide feed-back information concerning activities of program graduates. Results indicated that: (1) Practically all graduates were employed as Dental Hygienists, with most sharing their time among two or more offices; (2) Daily…

The university leavers project has three separate objectives: (1) to assess the feasibility of establishing a career guidance service for university students; (2) to find actual employment categories of earlier graduates so as to assist the manpower planners; and (3) to arrive at a qualifiable measurement of the contribution of the University of…

A total of 168 South Dakota industrial arts teachers (83 percent) returned questionnaires which were designed to survey public secondary school industrial arts programs and compare them with developed evaluative criteria. The findings were: (1) Industrial arts teachers accepted the philosophy and the objectives as stated in the criteria, (2)…

Evidence of Cuyahoga Community College's success in preparing its 1966-through-1969 career program graduates for their chosen occupations was sought in this study. One thousand one graduates were sent questionnaires and 350 responded with the requested employment data and course-of-study evaluations. After studying the responses, the researcher…

To examine the migration and vocational choices of recent high school graduates from three geographical areas of Minnesota, data were obtained by questionnaires and interviews of 739 male high school graduates from the years 1948-1956. The sample was stratified by agricultural income of the region. Some findings were: (1) Out-migration was greater…