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Appendix
Please take no more than 15 minutes to provide us with following information about yourself:
1.Age______years
2.Sex (circle one) M F
3.Year (circle one) FR SO JR SR
4.In what state did you attend high school?___
5.Approximately how many A`s did you earn last semester?___
6.What was your approximate G.P.A. last semester? ___
7.Approximately how many hours on average do you spend
studying outside of class every week? _____
8. Based on my experience,I feel that my high school`s academic
standards were:
______ 1) much too high ______ 2) somewhat high ______ 3) slightly too high
______ 4) average
______ 5) slightly too low
______ 6) somewhat low
______ 7) much too low
9.What type of high school did you attend?
1) public
2) non-public
If you choose the non-public school option, then specify what
religious or secular type of high school you attended.
_______________________________________
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10.Based on my experience, I feel that Loyola`s standards are: ______ 1) much too high ______ 2) somewhat high ______ 3) slightly too high ______ 4) average ______ 5) slightly too high ______ 6) somewhat low ______ 7) much too low
11.On the following scale, please rate from 0 to 6 the level
of satisfaction your non-accademic life at Loyola.
Very Somewhat Very
Unsatisfied Satisfied Satisfied 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Please explain your rating in 10 words or less
_______________________________________________
Please answer the following question if you have taken the SAT. Otherwise skip it.
12.What was your total score on the SAT? ___
Please answer the following question if you have taken the ACT. Otherwise skip it.
13.What was your total score on the ACT? ___
14.On the following scale,please rate from 0 to 6 how
confident you are with your study skills.
Very Somewhat Very
Unconfident Confident Confident
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
15.The highest degree I`m striving for is:
______1)1 year certificate
______2)2 year college degree (associate)
______3)4 year college degree (bachelor`s)
______4)master degree
______5)doctoral degree
TABLE
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Table 1
Mean and Standard Deviations for the participant's ratings about their high school and college academic standards, college satisfaction, approximate number of study hours devoted to their college academic study, approximate SAT composite scores,ratings about their study skills and desired high level degree _____________________________________________________
Variable M SD N
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The participants'ratings about their 3.21 1.60 42
high school academic standards(a)
Participants' ratings about their 3.62 0.85 42
college academic standards(a)
Participants' college satisfaction(b). 4.45 1.50 42
Participants' approximate number of 9.40 7.43 42
study hours devoted to their college academic study
SAT composite scores 128.90 167.90 42
Participants' ratings about their 3.73 1.52 42
study skills(c)
Participant's desired high level 4.1 0.79 42
college degree (d)
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Note.
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(a)Academic standards refers to how well a
particular high school or college provides their
students with a wellrounded education.The
participants' ratings about their both their high
school and college standards wererated on a scale
of one to seven,one being their lowest rating score
while seven was the highest rating score.
(b)College satisfaction refers to how well the
participants felt abot their non-academic life in
college. The participants' ratings about their
college satisfaction were rated on a scale of zero
to six, zero being the lowestrating score while six
was the highest rating score.
(c)Study skills refers to how confident the
participants felt about their study habits in
college. The participants'ratings abot their study
skills were rated on a scale of zero to six, zero
being the lowest rating score while six was the
highest rating score.
(d)Desired high level degree refers to how many
college degrees that a participant is striving to
obtain.
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