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Satisfaction Item
TABLE IIE-2
SATISFACTION WITH COURSEWORK BY YEAR IN SCHOOL
Year in School
Many of my classes are too
large
The pace…in many of the
required courses is too fast
The workload for
engineering students is too
heavy and difficult
(% “agree” and “strongly agree”)
First-Year Sophomore Junior Senior Total
8.4 11.3 15.1 3.5 10.0
25.3 33.0 34.9 43.3 34.0
30.5 54.5 62.0 43.9 48.1
SATCLASS (mean score) .309 -.190 -.302 .263 .000
In the following sections, we will look at what kinds of students are more or less
satisfied with the programmatic elements of SATCHOIC and SATCLASS. First we will
look at selected family and high school background characteristics as they are related to
students’ satisfaction scores; then we will look at students’ academic performance and
participation in extra-curricular activities and how they are related to satisfaction.
Satisfaction with Programmatic Elements and Background Characteristics
To explore whether students with certain kinds of backgrounds are more or less
satisfied with the programmatic elements, we begin by looking at the relationship
between selected family characteristics and the satisfaction scores. We consider parents’
education, father’s occupation, how much support students perceive by significant others
for their pursuit of engineering. We expected that the effect of background characteristics
would become weaker during the undergraduate career as they get more involved in their
undergraduate education and satisfaction would depend more on their school experience.
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