Baccalaureate Degree Completion: A Test of Holland’s Congruence Assumption Using Four-Year Public College Students in Ohio

 
 
 
 

Baccalaureate Degree Completion: A Test of Holland’s Congruence Assumption Using Four-Year Public College Students in Ohio

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Title: Baccalaureate Degree Completion: A Test of Holland’s Congruence Assumption Using Four-Year Public College Students in Ohio
Author: Cruickshank, Cameron Scott
Description: Holland’s (1997) theory of vocational personalities and work environments, extended to educational environments, was used as the theoretical framework that guided this study, which investigated the relationship between the degree of vocational interest-educational environment congruence and academic achievement. The population of 20,187 first-time, full-time students who entered four-year state-supported institutions of higher education in Ohio in 1998, and who completed the ACT Assessment, the Revised Unisex Edition of the American College Testing Interest Inventory (UNIACT; Swaney, 1995), and the student profile section of the ACT Assessment were used as the subjects. Descriptive statistics were computed for the predictor variables, Pearson product moment correlation coefficients were determined for all variables under consideration, and a stepwise multiple regression model was utilized to determine the proportion of variance in the attainment of a four-year degree that can be explained by the extent of person-environment fit. A total of 19 independent variables correlated with the dependent variable. The stepwise logistic regression analysis produced a model that consisted of 10 predictor variables that accounted for 17.8% of the variance in the outcome variable of graduation from college (BACHDEGREE). The experimental variable, CONGRUENCE correlated positively (r = .018, p < .01) with the outcome variable BACHDEGREE, but was not included in the regression model. Therefore, the experimental variable, CONGRUENCE was found not to be predictive of graduating from college.
Permanent Link: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1138728451
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/19312
Date: 2005

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