Helping Students Make Informed Choices About College
Category: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Instrument Overview
Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) developed the Freshman Survey for collecting data on incoming college freshmen. The CIRP Freshman Survey focuses on the following domains: established behaviors in high school, academic preparedness, admissions decisions, expectations of college, interactions with peers and faculty, student values and goals, student demographic characteristics, and concerns about financing college.
Year developed: 1966.
Organization
Content
Grades
Post secondary
Access and Use
Price
Check the price at the HERI survey fees webpage: https://heri.ucla.edu/pricing/
Contact
Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA: (310) 825-1925, heri@ucla.edu
Use in Research
DeAngelo, L., & Franke, R. (2016). Social mobility and reproduction for whom? College readiness and first-year retention. American Educational Research Journal, 53(6), 1588-1625. https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831216674805 Fernandes, P., Haley, M., Eagan, K., Shattuck, P. T., & Kuo, A. A. (2021). Health needs and college readiness in autistic students: The freshman survey results. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04814-8 Grimes, S. K., & David, K. C. (1999). Underprepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences. Community College Review, 27(2), 73-92. https://doi.org/10.1177/009155219902700204
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
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