The purpose of the present study was to gain some insight as to why students initiate but do not complete registration at Cerritos College. A sample of 1,275 were identified as not having completed the registration process preceding the Fall semester, 1972. A postage-paid postcard questionnaire was sent to each of these students; 28% were…

This factbook provides four major categories of data concerning Alabama colleges and universities: institutional characteristics, student enrollments, degrees and other formal awards, and numbers of deans and faculty. All data are divided into three parts. Part one presents state, southeast, and national data. Summary data for all state…

This document identifies characteristics of war veterans enrolled at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point campus. Data obtained from enrollments, geographic origins, age, marital status, class, teaching intent, high school rank, ACT (American College Testing) scores, and college of study. Characteristics of the veterans suggest most came…

Research was conducted to develop a means of identifying, upon entry into the course, the students most likely not to succeed in trigonometry, with the intention of using the prediction to apply an intervention strategy. A 64-item questionnaire was developed and administered to a sample of students enrolled in the course in the winter 1973…

An exploratory study into the bias associated with faculty self-reporting of time and effort is reported. The paper delves into the question of whether or not there is bias in faculty reports of time and effort and whether a pattern to any such bias might appear. The methodology for conducting the study involved gathering faculty estimates of…

This document presents the campus statistics of the University of California, Berkeley, for the fall quarter 1972 and the year 1971-72. Statistics for fall 1972 include campus enrollment, continuing and returning students, fulltime, and parttime students, undergraduate and graduate students by department, home locality at time of admission,…

The State University System of Florida developed this Fact Book in response to a need for a convenient and authoritative source of information on the operations of the System and the individual universities. The Fact book contains information concerning student enrollment at the various universities, programs offered and degrees granted from…

In the fall of 1971, a survey instrument calling for respondents to give basic data about themselves (race, sex, age), to indicate their educational status (class in college), to report their long-range educational plans, and to give other related information was administered to entering students in the public junior colleges and community…

These three separate studies of students at El Camino College (California) discuss their majors, perceptions of academic relevancy, and grade point characteristics. Sub-groups of students (freshman/sophomore, full-time/part-time) are compared according to their major divisions (physical sciences, fine arts, natural sciences, etc.) and also…

Reviews developmental education programs stressing the need for institutional research to determine the viable parts of such curricula in view of cutbacks being made of costly programs. Discusses factors causing insufficient skills in students, considers program evaluation, and reviews six established developmental programs. (MB)

Possible respondents in a 1974 survey of University of Kentucky doctoral graduates were sent either computer-prepared or offset-printed questionnaires, personalized and identical in content. Overall response rates were similar except when the responses were categorized by the academic major of each recipient. (Editor/LBH)

The idea that knowledge is a major determinant of policy in industry and government is discussed with reference to Harold Wilensky's book, "Organizational Intelligence: Knowledge and Policy in Government and Industry." Implications for academe's institutional research activities are considered. (LBH)

The expectations and limitations of market research in higher education are reviewed, including its functions and roles, foci and types, constraints of current practice, promising developments, and needs. (MSE)

Institutional researchers must bring measurement theorists and assessment practitioners together to develop new and more suitable methods for assessing developmental changes in groups of students. (Author/MLW)

The ultimate goal of the institutional researcher is not always to test a research hypothesis, but more often simply to find an appropriate model to gain an understanding of the underlying characteristics and interrelationships of the data. Exploratory data analysis provides a means of accomplishing this. (Author)