Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 34-04, Section: A, page: 1630. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1973.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 27-08, Section: A, page: 2361. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1966.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 27-08, Section: A, page: 2364. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1966.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 28-07, Section: A, page: 2521. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1967.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 28-07, Section: A, page: 2525. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1967.

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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 35-02, Section: A, page: 0822. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1973.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, Section: A, page: 3787. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to determine the difference between the perceptions of high school counselors and graduates regarding institutions of higher education in the state of Florida. Specifically, the study identified the perceptions of counselors and graduates in public, private, and parochial high schools in Hillsborough County, Florida. / Procedures. Two groups of subjects were selected for the study. One group consisted of the high school counselors in all the public, private, and parochial high schools in Hillsborough County, Florida. This group was comprised of the 56 counselors in the 11 public high schools, the 10 counselors in the 7 parochial schools, and the 11 counselors in the 6 private schools in the county. / The second group consisted of a random sampling of high school students who had just graduated from public, private, and parochial schools in Hillsborough County, Florida, and who indicated intentions of continuing their education at an institution of higher education. / The data from these two groups were collected via a questionnaire. Each respondent was asked to indicate how he/she felt that two-year public junior and community colleges, four-year public colleges and universities, and private colleges and universities most closely fit certain characteristics involving Students and Student Welfare, Curriculum and Faculty, and Institutional Policies and Services. / Results. Even though a majority of students (82.4%) said they had talked to a counselor about future educational plans, the students' perceptions of institutions differed significantly from those of counselors on 13 of the 22 questionnaire items before they attended college and on 14 of the 22 items after college. The null hypothesis was rejected in those instances. Because of the number of students who said they had talked to a counselor about their post-graduation plans, it seems that counselors have a great opportunity to influence college decision making. However, only a small percentage of students (8.8%) indicated that counselors had influenced them the most when selecting a college. Recommendations were suggested, which include printing college brochures at a reading level appropriate for junior as well as high school students. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-06, Section: A, page: 1525. / Thesis (Educat.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a series of career decision-making enhancement workshops (CDEW) on subsequent career decision-making attitudes and behaviors of high school students (Juniors) in a mid-size high school in Joplin, Missouri. / Seven research questions structured the investigation and were subsequently reformulated in terms of seven hypotheses. The hypotheses were developed based on factors delineated by the Career Decision Scale (Osipow et al., 1976). Six factors (scales) were used to dependent variables: (1) Lack of Structure, (2) Perceived External Barriers, (3) Approach-Approach Conflict, (4) Personal Conflict, (5) Firmness of Career Choice, and (6) A Composite Index (Total Indecision Score). / The seventh hypothesis was tested by the administration of a follow-up questionnaire six months after the workshops. The questionnaire assessed researcher selected career exploratory behaviors that were initiated through workshop participation. / The CDEW workshops proved to have a significant effect (P < .05) on the following Osipow (1980) factors: Personal Conflict, and Firmness of Career Choice. Also, CDEW proved to have a significant effect (P < .05) on four of six career exploratory behaviors (Reading, Visiting, Talking, and Observing). / Post hoc analysis of data was used to determine whether initial levels of career decisiveness had any effect on the six Osipow (1980) factors. The experimental and control groups were divided, using a median split procedure, into high and low decisiveness groups. Overall, students who displayed low levels of career decisiveness were those most enhanced by participation in CDEW. In summation, CDEW had varied results on immediate posttest attitude change surrounding career decisiveness as measured by the Osipow Career Decision Scale. Although follow-up data clearly supported a learning phenomenon that engendered action oriented career exploratory behaviors, this learning phenomenon appeared to result from an "incubation" or mastery of content over time. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-01, Section: A, page: 0085. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.