Editorial Type: research-article
| Online Publication Date: 01 Sept 1992
Measuring Expectations About College Adjustment
Measuring Expectations About College Adjustment
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Article Category: Research Article
Page Range: 23 – 32
Research on an instrument designed to measure matriculating students' expectations or level of confidence regarding their capacity for adjusting to college shows the instrument to be reliable and predictably related to a variety of pre- and postmatriculation self-report data and real-life behaviors. Uses of the instrument in high school as well as college are considered.
Copyright: © 1992 National Academic Advising Association 1992
Contributor Notes
Robert W. Baker is Professor of Psychology. The research reported in this article was supported in part by a grant he received from NACADA.
Kim L. Schultz is a field evaluator for Education Development Center in Newton, MA. Address correspondence concerning this article to Robert W. Baker, Department of Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610.
