This study examined factors predicting the enrollment of men and women in science, math, and engineering (SME) graduate programs among those who had earned SME Bachelor's degrees. The data, which covered a 9-year period: 1985, 1989 (4-year follow-up), and 1994 (9-year follow-up), was drawn from the Cooperative Institutional Research program, a…

This document is a sample of the report the American College Testing Program (ACT) sends individual high schools. Statistics in this report reflect the characteristics of students from the school who took the ACT Assessment during their sophomore, junior, or senior year and graduated in 1997. Depending on the proportion of students from the school…

This study evaluated strategies to encourage interaction in a distance education setting, specifically a Ball State University (Indiana) distance graduate-level course in Elementary School Curriculum which utilized the World Wide Web and a "Class Page." Participants were primarily elementary school teachers (47 graduate students) who…

A study was undertaken to determine the economic value of receiving a vocational certificate or associate degree from the California Community Colleges (CCCs). The study examined state Unemployment Insurance Wage Record (WR) data for a cohort of 841,952 leavers and completers from the CCCs during 1991-92, comparing educational attainment by…

This project at Tennessee State University (Nashville) attempted to enlarge the pool of qualified and motivated undergraduate black students for graduate study leading to a public service career. The project served three consecutive cohorts of black students entering the upper division of their undergraduate program; it emphasized curricular and…

This report represents the first Graduate Student Follow-up Study by the Teacher Education Assessment Committee (TEAC) at Central Missouri State University (Missouri). TEAC is a centralized system of data collection and assessment that conducts and publishes results of periodic assessments and evaluations of Central's teacher education programs by…

This report examines data on degrees conferred in the health professions and the absorption of these professionals into the economy. Overall, the number of degrees awarded in the health professions increased by 10 percent between 1984-85 and 1991-92. However, during the same period, the number of degrees conferred in all other fields increased by…

First-year students (n=255) at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania completed a survey instrument concerning human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), during the initial meetings of a general health course. Ninety-four percent of respondents had received information about HIV/AIDS at the secondary school level.…

This paper addresses the analysis of surveys administered to prekindergarten through eighth grade students and the analysis of parent and teacher interviews in an effort to determine why children read, what they prefer to read, and how adults can further motivate them to read. The premise of the paper is that attitudes (feelings toward an…

This study examined the social impact of online, Web-based, distance learning (OWDL) technology on students enrolled in health, physical education, and recreation (HPER) Master's degree level courses as compared to students in traditional classroom courses. Surveys were developed and mailed to 137 students in both types of classrooms. The surveys…

This study followed up gifted Finnish students who participated in Olympiad mathematics and scientific competitions during the years 1965-1997. Survey responses were received from 158 former Olympians (150 males, 8 females) and 169 of their parents. The responding Olympians had competed in mathematics (N=73), physics (N=50), and chemistry (N=35)…

This empirical study compared a graduate online course with an equivalent course taught in a traditional face-to-face format. Comparisons included student ratings of instructor and course quality; assessment of course interaction, structure, and support; and learning outcomes such as course grades and student self-assessment of ability to perform…

This symposium on university programs consists of three presentations. "Institutional and Curricular Characteristics of Leading Graduate Human Resource Development (HRD) Programs in the United States" (K. Peter Kuchinke) reports a study on institutional arrangements, student enrollments, and core curriculum content and found a large…

This report discusses the characteristics of Miami-Dade Community College (M-DCC) (Florida) graduates for the 1999-2000 academic year. It includes statistics for the entire community college as well as individualized statistics for the separate campuses. The report also highlights changes in statistics from the previous year. The report shows that…

Universities are under increasing pressure to develop a virtual presence in the face of widespread global competition. Online courseware development and delivery presents many exciting opportunities, and brings with it a number of challenges to be overcome. This case study describes some of the experiences of the European Union-funded TISCAM…