An investigation was conducted at Prince George's Community College to determine Fall 1980 course passing rates within college divisions and departments; passing rates and grade distributions in courses using different modes of instruction; within-term course withdrawal rates; term-to-term retention and attrition rates; students' reasons for…

Little is known about the social aspects of the student teaching experience. Case studies of one successful and one unsuccessful student teacher present characteristics that may be advantageous or detrimental to the success of the experience. A patron cooperating teacher, congruent beliefs about classroom management, the ability to put all other…

A preliminary summary is presented of a national survey, entitled "What Works in Student Retention," conducted in spring 1979 by the American College Testing (ACT) Program and the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems. The purpose of the survey was to identify, analyze, and compile information about campus action programs and…

A concise summary of statistical data, this booklet examines the possible career motivations, social influences, and economic factors that might affect teacher mobility patterns in the state of Wisconsin. (LH)

Increases in junior college enrollment, coupled with a shortage of qualified guidance personnel, have forced many colleges to rely more heavily on group than on individual counseling for students. In the fall of 1965, students entering American River College were randomly assigned to either group or individual sessions, or not assigned, and these…

Information from 823 of the 1,127 non-teaching agricultural education graduates from Iowa State University from January 1940 to July 1964 was examined to investigate environmental factors influencing agricultural education graduates to teach vocational agriculture and reasons for leaving vocational agriculture teaching. Examination of the data…

The study's purpose was to: (1) identify factors affecting college students' academic performance measured by college grade point average (GPA) and persistence identified by whether or not withdrawn from the university initially attended; and (2) compare these factors among Black, Mexican American, and Anglo students. Data were obtained from the…

Fifteen of the most innovative schools and 15 of the least innovative schools in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, and Utah, as identified by the Educational Innovation Checklist developed by Hinman, were examined to (1) determine whether there are significant differences between their organizational climates, (2) determine if differences exist…

The careers of 799 male and 1,265 female teachers employed in Oregon school districts were traced for 4 years from 1962 to 1966 to determine the teachers' survival rates. The primary method of analysis chosen was an actuarial approach which involves construction of a survival curve showing numbers of teachers surviving after each period of time…

A study examined the relationship between the commitment on the part of teachers to either their profession or their employing school districts and their attitudes towards professional and militant activities. The sample consisted of responses from 394 elementary and secondary school teachers (of 625 employed in two western New York school…

A study was undertaken to identify the characteristics of the adult learner who persists in the North Carolina learning laboratories program, and to differentiate between him and the student who does not persist. The program was established under the "Open Door Policy" articulated by the State Board of Education in 1963, which opened all…

We analyze the labor supply decision of married women, husband present, qualified to teach school. We are especially concerned with how the ages of children in the family affect the wife's supply of labor over time. We develop a utility-maximizing model of the household where household utility (a function of total consumption, leisure of the…

Report 2 demonstrates the extreme diversity of the new students who enrolled in the California Community Colleges in the Fall of 1972. One-third of the group graduated from high school that same year, usually from a high school in the college district, but two-thirds were distributed over a wide range of ages, amounts of prior college experience,…

Factors that differentiate between first-year teachers who remain for a second year and those who resign after 1 year of employment with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools were investigated in this 1969-70 study of BIA teachers working from the BIA area office in Gallup, New Mexico (n=78), and Aberdeen, South Dakota (n=49). Data were…

The data presented in this report supplements that contained in Report 6 of this series of reports on a longitudinal study of student progress in Hawaii community colleges. Among the findings reported in this study are: (1) continuation rates for new and transfer students at the fourth semester were 42% and 31% respectively with a higher rate…