Students Interval Study Achievement 1982 to 1988, SIL D

Development of achievement habits of college students in the course
of studies, recording decisive determinants of study process and
personality development as well as preparation for occupational activity.
Topics: Main questionnaire: areas of interest; moral orientation on
structuring life; attitude to path of education, college studies,
subject and occupation; solidarity with subject, section and
occupation; certainty of occupation success; efficiency of studies;
considering premature interruption of course of study; excessive
expectations or over-qualification; assessment of college education,
teachers and FDJ work; scientific work style, mastery of study
demands and foreign languages; estimated and cognitive achievement
dispositions; personality characteristics relevant for leaders;
individual study plan and forms of individual support; support by
parents; social-political sense of responsibility; ideological
solidarity; world view; SED membership; FDJ and political functions;
relationship between teachers and students or cooperation, model and
communication; dealing with private study; study tasks on weekend;
participation in forms of scientific-productive activity; optional
scientific commitment; participation in scientific conferences;
personal technical publications; use of sources of information;
experience with modern communication technology; knowledge test
CAD/CAM/SDI; self-assessment regarding achievement and activity in
seminar group; special scholarship or one based on achievement; grade
average in major examinations, final grades and diploma grade;
re-taking examinations; intent to get married, long-term
relationship; children and desire for children or current pregnancy;
most favorable point in time for first child; current firm partner
relation; partner mobility; psycho-physical complaints; sicknesses
and use of medication; smoking and use of alcohol; social, technical
and leisure activities during studies; leisure sport; reception of
fiction and poetry; personal possession of books; evaluation of
occupational practical training, support by college; topic of diploma
dissertation, preparation, realization and available time, literature
sources, coaching, continuation; cooperation with mentor, his
academic degree and status; assessment of mentor; arranging work for
graduates: manner of finding work, choices available, selective job
offer, points in time of process of arranging; relation of place of
work to interests, achievements and problem; knowledge about the
characteristic of the mission; extent to which informed about work
activity; future management function; first names for occupational
activity; personal significance of individual occupational aspects;
future area of activity, status; monthly financial budget; initial
monthly salary; income in comparison to peers; previous and future
form of housing, rooms available, co-residents; living together with
partner and at place of work; room occupancy in student dormatory;
material possession; savings; concepts of partnership and personal
structuring of family life; three golden rules for effective studies;
positive or things worth changing in studies.
Special questionnaire Koslow: future concepts; attitudes to
technology development, environment, environmental protection,
conditions, measures in the GDR; individual support by teachers,
model effect; inclination to certain forms of activity.
Special questionnaire child (only for students with children):
residing and housing child or children; conditions for child care;
omissions in studies through pregnancy or child care; support;
compatibility of parenthood and studies; attitude to studies with
children; attitude to compatibility of family and employment of a
woman college graduate; preferred structuring of the baby year.
Special questionnaire sport: motivation, attitudes to sport and
personal athletic activity; desires on structuring sport instruction
or college sport group; frequency and length of leisure sport; form
of participation in sport instruction; sport knowledge; sport
achievement test.
Subject area questionnaire technology: extent to which informed about
technologies, technology development; attitude to scientific
creativity; technical abilities, knowledge; wishes regarding
occupational deployment; attitude to study of engineering, direction
of specialization; motivation for studies; participation in inventor
competition; concepts of future engineering activity; education
contents.
Subject area questionnaire economics: attitude to work as economist;
assessment of study of economics; work as economist after conclusion
of course of study; interest in later management activity, stimulus
from other persons; subjective conditions for leader function after
studies; success given certain study activities; social function in
studies and motives for this; attitude to various forms of leader
training during studies.
Subject area questionnaire country: interest in agricultural
scientific problems; interest in later management activity; specific
agricultural abilities; significance and quality of education
contents for employment; wishes regarding occupational deployment;
housing desire after conclusion of course of studies.
Subject area questionnaire music: special occupation attitudes;
student receiving support; public appearances; amount of daily
practice; assessment of major subject instruction, major subject
teachers and model effect; personal significance of aspects of
artistic activity; associations with music.
Subject area questionnaire teacher: attitudes to teacher training,
length of studies; significance and quality of education contents for
activity as teacher; specific technical, pedagogical,
didactic-methodological abilities; primary examination grades;
evaluation of study demands of certain education disciplines;
technical discipline of diploma dissertation.
SIL D verbal: course of study; areas of occupational deployment;
status of graduates in science; area of activity of graduates in
industry; management function; characteristics of deployment of
graduates; start in professional life; help in training phase;
personal major goals; particular concerns; ideal concepts of personal
knowledge, characteristics, skills.