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What Works? - School to Career Survey

Improving student achievement and providing experiences to young adults so they can make important college, career and life decisions are important aspects of today's education. Based on the requests from local school districts and communities, the 1999 What Works? Colorado High School Senior Survey was developed.

Two important questions were posed in the study:

  1. What motivates today's students in school?... and
  2. How prepared are these students for their future?

This survey report provides the first reflections from 8,663 high school seniors regarding their school experiences and plans for the future.

The Survey

Note: The information below is made available in the Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. Acrobat allows the user to view and print the documents exactly as they looked in the original document. First time users of this format will have to perform a one-time installation of the free Adobe Acrobat Reader Software before they will be able to read or print the documents. In consideration of the fact that some home Internet connections operate slower than others, the survey is available both in complete form and broken down into four individual sections: abstract, demographics, motivation, and the future.