Student Interval Study: Achievement 1982 to 1988, SIL A

Development of achievement habits of college students in the course
of studies. In particular: personality case history, study
prerequisites and expectations.
Topics: Primary questionnaire: culture and leisure interests or
activities; moral orientations on structuring life; reaction to
fiction and poetry and films; attitude to writing; leisure sport;
social-political sense of responsibility; ideological solidarity;
defense preparedness; attitude to exercise of power in the GDR; moral
superiority of socialism; world view; SED membership; social,
technical and leisure activities; previous functions in FDJ and mass
organizations; participation in events in school and outside of
school; participation in achievement comparisons; favorite subject,
disliked subjects in school; favorite activities, hobbies; additional
occupation with certain fields of specialization; conditions for
achievement successes or failures; scientific work style; path of
education to high school graduation, high school graduation grade;
achievement assessment of high school graduation class,
self-assessment of school achievement in high school graduation
class, desired affiliation in achievement third; qualifications,
activities before college; territorial origins; completeness of
parental home, child-raising style, atmosphere, inclusion in domestic
jobs, contents of communication and activity; siblings; class
affiliation, occupation, qualification of parents or grandfathers;
age, place of residence, party affiliation, world view of parents;
parental or personal possession of books; similarity of subject with
occupation or activity of parents; concepts of partnership and
personal structuring of family life; most favorable point in time for
first child; desire for children; start of cohabitation and age;
partner mobility; current firm partner relation, partner also
student, in university city; feeling of happiness; sense of firm
partner relation in studies; attitude to path of education, college
studies, subject, occupation; application for admission to college;
extent to which informed at start of studies; personal significance
of college education; personality characteristics relevant to study
achievements; ideas about student life, teacher-student relationship,
communication; first names in college; opinions of studies,
occupation with technical problems; identification as student;
readiness to make an effort, certainty of success in studies,
solidarity with subject, occupation; social reputation of subject
area; occupational anticipations, deployment wishes; personal
significance of individual occupational aspects; psycho-physical
complaints; smoking habits; concentration, ability to withstand
physical stress; personal well-being; relationship to former
classmates and colleagues; personality characteristics relevant to
being a leader; housing desire; children, current pregnancy;
demographic information; methodological questions.
Access questionnaire: decision on path of education; factors in
choice of subject and motives, application for admission to college;
extent to which informed; similarity of skilled worker final
examination with subject; certainty of success in studies;
development of desire for studies or subject; previous sources of
information; reputation of the occupation; forms of specific
preparation for studies; training prior to practical training,
duration, qualification, benefit, experiences, recommendations on
structuring.
Special questionnaire Koslow: inclination to certain forms of
activity; occupational concepts; choice of occupation; attitude to
study achievement and practice; learning habits, way of working
during time in school; model qualities; relationship to collective.
Special questionnaire neurosis: on the psychological condition of
students - attitudes, habits, feelings, conditions, problems;
illnesses in the last year.
Special questionnaire sport: motivation, attitudes to sport and to
personal athletic activity; desire to structure sport instruction or
college sport group; frequency and length of leisure sport;
sport knowledge; sport achievement test.
Special questionnaire mental exercise test: linguistically altered
version of the mental exercise test (DST) of Lienert and some
supplementary questions relating to this test. The DST aimed at the
problem solving habits of students, complex thought processes in
which grasping logical relations, imaginativeness, inferential and
abstractive thinking play a role.
Verbal questionnaire (6 variants): association test with studies,
science, occupation, achievement, technology as well as open
questions on aspects of impending studies, life happiness or concepts
of future occupation, leader activity (short essays); personal
concerns and problems.
Subject area qustionnaire technology: attitudes to
scientific-technical progress in the GDR, to social security;
personal responsibility of the engineer; conditions for
scientific-technical progress; consequences of the achievement
principle in the GDR; attitude to men or women in technical
occupations; factors in choice of subject; influence on development
of technical knowledge; orientations sought with private study;
wishes regarding occupational deployment; attitude to scientific
creativity.
Subject area questionnaire economics: subject area; attitudes to
study of economics, to management function; management function;
orientations sought in private study; knowledge of internationally
famous economists; motive for the study of economics; personal
significance of factors for later employment; wishes regarding
occupational deployment; subjective conditions for management
function after studies; associations with "Economics".
Subject area questionnaire medicine: orientations sought in private
study; wishes regarding occupational deployment; desired place of
residence after conclusion of course of study.
Subject area questionnaire country: previous experiences in
agriculture; influence on agricultural knowledge; solidarity with
country life; previous employments; specific agricultural abilities;
interest in agricultural scientific problems; attitudes to
development conditions of agriculture; orientations sought in private
study; residence desire after conclusion of course of studies, wishes
regarding occupational deployment.
Subject area questionnaire music: subject area; start of musical
instruction, subject area; public appearances; special training
before studies; major subject instructor; wishes regarding
occupational deployment; associations with "music".
Subject area questionnaire physics: personal study advice and
occupation advice by physicists, models; self-assessment of strengths
in view of studies and occupation; doctorate intent; wishes regarding
occupational deployment, specialization.
Subject area questionnaire teacher: subject combination; attitudes to
teacher studies, to duration of studies, the occupation as teacher;
interest in pedagogical-psychological problems, work with children;
previous activities in subject; personal significance of individual
aspects of teacher education, factors for later employment,
characteristics and abilities for successful work as a teacher;
significance of individual groups of persons for science; motives for
teacher studies; attitudes to forms of FDJ work as help in
preparation for the occupation of teacher; orientations sought in
private study; wishes regarding occupational deployment.