A guide is presented for educators, parents, and students to help students prepare for college admissions tests: American College Testing (ACT) programs, Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), and Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT). Information is provided on the content of the tests and the services and publications available from the ACT…

Descriptive statistics are presented on those students in Florida's State University System (SUS) who were previously enrolled in one of the state's 28 public community colleges. A series of tables present fall term data for 1979 through 1981, including information on students' sex, age, and race; SUS enrollment rate of community college students;…

Descriptive statistics are presented on those students in Florida's State University System (SUS) who were previously enrolled in one of the state's 28 public community colleges. A series of tables present fall term data for 1981 through 1983, including information on: students' sex, age, and race; SUS enrollment rate of community college…

Many of the problems encountered by learning disabled high school students in the transition from secondary to postsecondary education settings can be minimized if planning for transition occurs at high school entry. Transition planning for the college bound learning disabled student needs to include the design of a relevant high school curriculum…

Nevada high school seniors were surveyed in 1986 to provide high school and college planners with information about students' demographic characteristics, high school experience, and postsecondary plans. Factors influencing students' choice of postsecondary institutions and students' impressions of the University of Nevada System institutions were…

A review is provided of current developments, problems, and issues in the areas of articulation and transfer between two- and four-year colleges. First, a discussion is provided of the nature of the two-year college and its curriculum, with particular emphasis on general education and on the effects of a commuting student body on the curriculum.…

In May 1983, the Georgia Board of Education identified six tasks to be pursued in an attempt to improve education in the public schools: (1) strengthen high school graduation requirements; (2) establish statewide promotion guidelines for at least one grade in elementary school (the 3rd grade was chosen); (3) implement merit or differential pay for…

This report is based on data from the 1979 and 1980 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Labor Market Experience (NLS). These data were collected for a nationally representative sample of 12,686 youth in 1979 and 12,141 in 1980. Chapter One uses the longitudinal capability of the NLS to examine those youth who were unemployed at the…

The fourteen tables in this report give a broad picture of Connecticut's college-bound high school seniors in the class of 1984. Data is presented on student characteristics, Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and other test scores, high school records, and college plans. For the purpose of comparison, each table contains statistics from previous…

The corporate structures that inform and sustain high schools and colleges are different from each other. The high school structure is required by law to provide students with surrogate parents who ensure that legal requirements are enforced. Colleges, however, assume students are adults and provide a much more open and volatile academic…

Procedures are described that were used to collect and process postsecondary school transcripts for a subsample of members of the younger (i.e. 1980 sophomore) cohort of the High School and Beyond study who attended postsecondary institutions at any time after leaving high school. Five chapters are as follows: (1) introduction (the National Center…

Music majors at the three-year New York Bible college, Practical Bible Training School (PBTS), have been unable to transfer music credits to other colleges to complete baccalaureate degrees due to a dissimilarity in program requirements. Program requirements at 44 Christian colleges where PBTS graduates were likely to transfer were compared in…

This report provides an analysis of the Transfer Alliance Program (TAP) and the Supergraduate Program, two transfer/ retention efforts operating between the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and local community colleges. The first and longer section of the report concerns TAP, a program in 1985 to promote the community college as a…

Results are presented from the first phase of Coastline Community College's Improving English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) Instruction for College-Bound Students project. The goal of Phase 1 was the systematic collection of information about non-native English speakers and ESL subject matter to be used in course development and outcomes measurement.…

Intended for high school or postsecondary hearing-impaired students or those who work with them, the fact sheet describes postsecondary options and lists a variety of additional resources. A section on facts about hearing loss stresses the importance of age of onset. The various communication methods (oral, manual, or total communication) are…