This report gives a historical overview of the Los Angeles Community Colleges District Student Survey and provides details about the current survey results. The student survey was started in fall 1976 in order to provide a picture of students by identifying their goals, levels of college preparation, extra curricular interests, transportation…

This study was undertaken to respond to a specific inquiry from the Center for Psychological Studies of Nova Southeastern University (Florida) about the satisfaction of Master's-level and Doctoral-level students with the University's faculty and programs. The population consisted of all students enrolled in these programs in the fall term of 1999,…

The information in this report is a snapshot of the impressions of doctoral recipients at the University of California, Los Angeles, of the overall quality of mentoring, assistance with finding professional employment, and general interest in the student shown by the dissertation chair. Findings come from an analysis of an exit survey completed by…

The Hobart and William Smith Colleges Alcohol Education Project (HWS) began in 1996 to test the social norms approach to reducing alcohol use by students. A social norms approach works on the premise that misperceived norms, perceptions that usually exaggerate what is typical for other students, lead to increased drinking as students attempt to…

Critical thinking can be explained as an effective, organized and functional cognitive process to understand our own thoughts and other people's opinions and to improve our dispositions to express ourselves. Critical thinking is a process and also dispositions about deciding what to do or believe logically. In addition it provides the possibility…

This study used qualitative research methods to construct a portrait of students between the ages of 18 and 24 who chose to attend a rural community college. Lengthy interviews were conducted with 12 volunteer participants throughout their first year of college, and in some cases continued into their second year, to gather data about their…

This report details the results of the 2001 Yearly Evaluation of Services by Students Survey (YESS) from Howard Community College (HCC) (Maryland). The survey is given to randomly chosen class sections each spring. The number of students chosen to participate in the 2001 survey was 1,994, and the response rate was 38% (766 students). Ratings on…

This document discusses a survey conducted to determine what students and teachers considered as moral values. The belief that character education should be used to promote and form a common language among people prompted the research. In addition, the question of what moral values education should be was considered. A model of moral and values…

The "We the People...The Citizen and the Constitution" program is an instructional program on the history and principles of U.S. constitutional democracy for elementary, middle school, and high school students. At the high school level, classes may choose to enter a formal competition, advancing from congressional district and state…

This survey was conducted through the Internet to study the effects of a Master's in Business Administration (MBA) on students' attitudes about the roles and responsibilities of business. The survey was conducted in 3 waves: (1) August/September 1999, capturing the responses of 1,116 MBA students as they entered business school; (2) spring 2000,…

This paper presents a case study, including a survey sample, of the process used to implement an effective Graduating Seniors Survey within the institutional effectiveness (IE) process at a major metropolitan research university. From an organizational point of view, the university's survey support office and the faculty and staff responsible for…

This study, based on the national Monitoring the Future survey of high school seniors, examined the impact of religion on the life attitudes and self-esteem of adolescents. It focused on 13 attitudinal variables: attitude toward self; pride in self; self-worth; enjoyment of life; hopelessness; usefulness of life; good to be alive; satisfaction…

Today, many people, with no personal experience of living through a tropical storm, reside in coastal regions in harms way. This population needs to be educated about storm risks. One good venue for this is the public school system. Science educators have concluded it is important to establish a knowledge base about the ways students think and…

In fall 2001 staff of the Los Rios Community College District Office of Institutional Research collaborated with occupational deans, academic deans, and faculty to develop and administer a survey of former Drafting and Engineering Design Technology students. The survey was designed to determine how well courses had met the needs of former drafting…

In spring 2002 staff of the Los Rios Community College District Office of Institutional Research collaborated with occupational deans, academic deans, and faculty to develop and administer a survey of former Early Childhood Education (ECE) students. The survey was designed to determine how well courses had met the needs of former ECE students who…