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Nafziger, Dean H.; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1975
Hypotheses about person-environment congruency, consistency, and differentiation from Holland's theory of careers were tested. Subjects were students who had been given the Self-Directed Search before their freshman year followed by a questionnaire one or three years later. Results support Holland's congruency hypothesis but not the…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Emotional Adjustment, Individual Characteristics
Bauman, Martin H. – J Amer Coll Health Assn, 1969
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Colleges, Emotional Adjustment
Astin, Alexander W. – J Counseling Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Career Planning, College Environment, College Freshmen, College Students
Duling, John A. – J Nat Assn Wom Deans Counselors, 1969
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Cultural Differences, Environmental Influences
Hill, Malcolm D. – 1982
The connection between faculty sex composition and job satisfaction among women academics in selected institutions of higher education in Pennsylvania was examined. Responses to a mailed questionnaire were received from 1,089 respondents, including 214 women. Biographical data and demographic information were collected, and job satisfaction was…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Faculty, Females, Higher Education
PACE, C. ROBERT – 1967
DEVELOPED FOR USE IN 4-YEAR ACCREDITED INSTITUTIONS, COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENT SCALES (CUES) WERE CONSTRUCTED FROM THOSE ITEMS WHICH DISCRIMINATED MOST CLEARLY THE ENVIRONMENTAL DIFFERENCES AMONG 50 SUCH INSTITUTIONS. A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF THE USE OF CUES IN 32 JUNIOR COLLEGES IN CALIFORNIA, TEXAS, AND MINNESOTA SHOWED THAT (1)…
Descriptors: College Environment, Cues, Environmental Influences, Higher Education
EPPERSON, DAVID C. – 1967
PROSPECTIVE JUNIOR COLLEGE STUDENTS SHOULD BE AWARE OF DIFFICULTIES THEY MAY ENCOUNTER IN SUCH MATTERS AS (1) INADEQUACIES OF FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT, (2) PROGRAM DEFICIENCES, (3) SHORTAGES OF ADEQUATE STAFF, (4) TRANSFER PROBLEMS, AND (5) STATUS AND PRESTIGE FACTORS. COUNSELORS SHOULD HELP STUDENTS TO APPRAISE BOTH THE POSITIVE AND THE NEGATIVE…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Environment, Counseling, Counselor Role
Skager, Rodney W.; Braskamp, Larry A. – 1966
Changes in self esteem or life goals of college students are likely to be related to the degree of success experienced in various types of extracurricular activities. To test this hypothesis, questionnaires containing 8 items requiring self-ratings and 8 items describing desirable accomplishments, aspirations or goals were administered in 1964 and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, College Environment, Extracurricular Activities
Mock, Kathleen – 1967
The report interprets data collected by the American Council on Education on freshmen at 7 University of California (UC) campuses during a fall 1966 survey of 251 colleges and universities. The 7 campuses are Davis, Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz. Students responded to questions about their backgrounds,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Environment, College Freshmen, Higher Education
Ebbers, Larry H.; Stoner, Kenneth L. – 1975
The annotations selected to be included in this document are based on their relevancy to assessment of student development in the residential environment. While there are other sources in addition to those presented, this bibliography is designed to provide the reader with some of the writing and research related to student development in…
Descriptors: Administration, Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, College Environment
Grose, Robert F. – 1975
The Cycles questionnaire developed by Kegan at Hampshire College was given in May 1975 to a random sample of 200 Amherst College students. The 61 percent responding expressed the degree of their general satisfaction with the college, including their intellectual life, social life, academic advising, and peer groups. Although most Amherst College…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Environment, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Pace, Walter T. – 1970
A study was conducted to analyze the personal needs and college press profiles of Negro teacher trainees at Fayetteville State University (N.C.) during the early sixties. The students' perceptions of themselves in relation to institutional press (administrative policies, academic regulations, social rules, and their concomitants) were seen as the…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, College Environment, Education Majors
National Merit Scholarship Corp., Evanston, IL. – 1970
This report discusses the research in progress and finished research conducted by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Three types of studies are currently in progress: (1) longitudinal studies of Merit Scholars; (2) studies of talented Negro students; and (3) studies of participants in the national talent search. Previous studies, those…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Annotated Bibliographies, College Environment, College Students
Austin, Maricyl – 1970
This report reviews: (1) instruments for measuring student perceptions of college; (2) inventories of college characteristics; (3) institutional self-studies; (4) instruments for measuring faculty perceptions of the college environment; and (5) studies on teaching evaluation. The report also contains the results of several surveys of faculty and…
Descriptors: College Environment, Evaluation, Higher Education, Institutional Environment
Goldberg, Lewis R. – 1969
The general purpose of this research project was to discover those personality characteristics which differentiate college students who tend to learn more effectively from one instructional format than from another. Two college courses were studied concurrently and four different teaching conditions were utilized in each course. A comprehensive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Environment, College Students, Courses
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