Student and faculty perceptions of educational values

"A questionnaire asking respondents to rank nine sets of phrases" representing different objectives of higher education was the basic instrument. 4 hypotheses were formulated as follows: "(a) there is a significant difference between what students wish to gain from college and what faculty consider as worthy objectives of higher education, (b) the expectancies of freshmen and seniors are different, (c) seniors are better able than freshmen to predict expressed faculty goals, and (d) more students than faculty feel that their educational goals are being met at the university." The first hypothesis was confirmed, data on the second hypothesis "led to a rejection," and the third hypothesis "was not confirmed by the data." The "students as a group reported substantially more goal fulfillment than did the faculty."