Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) [United States]: Freshman Survey, 1978
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
University of California-Los Angeles. Graduate School of Education. Higher Education Research Institute
American Council on Education
career choice
college freshmen
colleges
education costs
educational background
higher education
student financial aid
student values
universities
The principal purposes of this national longitudinal study of the higher education system in the United States are to describe the characteristics of new college freshmen and to explore the effects of college on students. For each wave of this survey, each student completes a questionnaire during freshman orientation or registration that asks for information on academic skills and preparation, high school activities and experiences, educational and career plans, majors and careers, student values, and financing college. Other questions elicit demographic information, including sex, age, parental education and occupation, household income, race, religious preference, and state of birth. Specific questions asked of respondents in the 1978 survey included how well the students felt that their high school had prepared them in different academic areas, information regarding the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) and Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) financial programs, and whether students considered themselves to be born-again Christians. Respondents were also asked to list their probable career and their assessments of achieving certain goals during their college years, as well as their predictions about what opportunities they might have in the future.
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http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02412.v1
08-16-2002
survey data
self-enumerated questionnaires
United States
1978