This report reflects Waukesha County Technical College's (WCTC) job placement study of 1999 graduates. It summarizes by degrees and programs the employment status, salaries, job titles, and employers of former students who graduated between July 1, 1998 and June 30, 1999. The data were obtained through a survey conducted from October 1999 through…

Analyzes some of the data collected in the Survey of Earned Doctorates, conducted annually by the Office of Scientific Personnel of the National Research Council, which uses a questionnaire completed by graduates at the time they fulfil all requirements for the doctoral degree. (Author/JM)

Survey showed science graduates with high academic performance remained in field of education, while industry attracted the academically weaker scie

Investigated the predictive efficiency of Holland's Self-Directed Search. In 1974, 126 vocationally undecided high school seniors were asked to express a career choice or indecision. A 1978 survey showed only 27 percent chose a career area not predicted by their 1974 SDS results. (Author)

Summarizes data from a 1980 survey of the Engineering Manpower Commission of the American Association of Engineering Societies. Reports numbers of Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. awards to engineering and technology graduates; also degrees granted to women and minorities. (CS)

This study gathered follow-up data on recent graduates of a secondary social studies education program at the University of Kentucky. Findings indicated that the program ought to keep in close touch with its teacher graduates and the program ought to be broadened to include field experiences. (RM)

The BEd degree of the University of Edinburgh and Moray House College of Education incorporates concurrent academic study and professional training leading to primary and/or secondary teacher qualification. This survey obtained data on graduate's current positions and opinions about the BEd program, particularly the dual qualification provision.…

The purpose of this article is to forecast the demand/supply situation for analytical chemists through the 1980s and to report various suggestions from analytical chemistry professors responding to a Procter and Gamble survey for increasing the supply of chemistry students entering graduate school. (Author/CO)

A 40-item questionnaire was mailed to 200 high school graduates of vocational agriculture programs to determine the benefits students receive from supervised occupational experience programs. The highest ranked benefits were (1) "encouraged the keeping of records," (2) "promoted the acceptance of responsibility," and (3) "developed pride in…

A survey of 364 men and 86 women medical school graduates found women less likely to be employed full-time or have outside professional activities, more likely to hold full-time academic appointments, to treat low-income patients, and to serve in inner cities. Women worked fewer hours, had fewer patients, but published scientific articles as…

Surveyed sociology graduates of California State University (Bakersfield) over a 15-year period to identify specific areas of skill and knowledge that graduates believed they had gained from their major. Found that minority males and males from families where both parents had less than a high school education felt they had gained the most from…

Describes a study that examined the usefulness of undergraduate and graduate grade point averages, Graduate Record Examination general test scores, and years since graduation as predictors of professional salaries for librarians. Correlations were found for men and persons employed in some types of libraries. Suggestions for further research are…