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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED337578 AUTHOR: Woloszyk, Carl A.
TITLE: Influences on Students Selecting Cooperative
Education Programs in Michigan High Schools. Final Report.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1991
NOTE: 135 p.
ABSTRACT: Factors influencing the decision of high school
students to enroll in cooperative education programs were
investigated in a survey. The stratified random sample
consisted of 275 high school students currently enrolled in
cooperative education programs in five different types of
communities throughout Michigan. The survey questionnaire
included 8 demographic questions and 35 items dealing with
reasons for enrolling in cooperative education. Students
indicated their agreement or disagreement with selected
people as influences, promotional strategies, and
educational and personal reasons for enrolling in a
cooperative education program. A chi-square test for
independence identified the degree to which type of
community, race, and sex affected student enrollment
decisions. The most important people who influenced the
students' decisions to enroll in cooperative education
were, in order of importance, friends, co-op coordinator,
and parent(s)/guardian(s). The single most important
promotional strategy was a meeting with the co-op
coordinator. Educational goals and personal reasons were
clearly identified as the predominant influencing factors
for students selecting cooperative education programs. The
following appendixes amount to over 90 percent of the
report: (1) the survey instrument; (2) analysis of
educational and personal influences by community and type
of influence; (3) analysis of nonwhite and white students
by type of influence; and (4) analysis of male and female
students by type of influence. (YLB)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Decision-Making; Family-Influence; Goal
Orientation; High-Schools; Instructor-Coordinators; Parent
Influence; Publicity-; Public-Relations;
Racial-Differences; Sex-Differences; State-Surveys;
Student-Interests; Teacher Influence
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Cooperative-Education; *Enrollment
Influences; *Student-Educational-Objectives
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