Helping Students Make Informed Choices About College
Category: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Instrument Overview
Perceptions, Expectations, Emotions, and Knowledge about College (PEEK) is a diagnostic instrument focused on student ideas, attitudes, beliefs, and expectations of college. PEEK’s 30 items use a 5-point rating scale (from “not at all likely” to “extremely likely”) to assess students’ academic, personal, and social expectations. Such measurement could potentially assist students in forming more precise perceptions of their college surroundings and potentially prevent disengagement and dropout from college.
Year developed:1995.
Organization
Content
Grades
12th Grade,
Post secondary
Administration Information
Length
30 items
Administration
Computer
Access and Use
Price
$4.50 each, 200+ $4.00 each
2,000 PEEK’s - Annual Site License $6,000 ($3.00 each)
5,000 PEEK’s - Annual Site License $12,500 ($2.50 each)
There is a $4.50 Account Set-Up/Update Fee per order
Contact
H & H Publishing: hhservice@hhpublishing.com or https://www.hhpublishing.com/ap/contact_form/contact.html
Open Access
No
Use in Research
Farrell, T. L. (2009). The early college high school and student self-perceptions of college readiness. (Doctoral dissertation, University of Houston-Clear Lake). https://www.proquest.com/docview/528024491?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true
Fleck, P. J. (2000). Expectations, academic performance, and retention of undergraduate engineering students. (Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University). https://www.proquest.com/docview/304604768?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true
Shoefstall, S. W. (2007). Student perceptions of college expectations with regard to first generation status, gender, and ethnicity. (Doctoral dissertation, Lamar University-Beaumont). https://www.proquest.com/docview/304758296?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Weinstein, C, Palmer, D., & Hanson, G. (1995). PEEK user's manual: For those administering the PEEK, perceptions, expectations, emotions, and knowledge about college. H & H Publishing.
