*StudOht College Relationship; Student Evaluation;.Teacher Characteristics

ABSTRACT. Prominent social scientific research on college populatiOns cartied out in recent years are reviewed in.this report. Focus is on: the characteristics of the entering student;. changes in 'student pharacteristics occurring during the college years; changes in mental ability, skills and knowledge'changes in attitudes and. values;, in personality; studies of the college as an institution;- student culture and society; and characteristics of..faculty and teaching. The research eported suggests that institutions have three choices: (1) to ignore the'subjectof their impact on itudent values, attitudes, and c*eatiVeity as too diffiqult.to'measure, or control; (2) to make More modest claias regarding,, their. impact on students; Dr (W to study their impact on student values and take steps to increase it. (WO 'F ********************,4********** * ********1***************************.-Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished * * materials not available from other sources. ERIC makes 'every effort * * to.;obtain the 'best copy available: Nevertheless, items of marginal