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According to Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Tests, a list of Gen Ed course-preferences submitted by students at registration could be correlated with course enrollment statistics, and the over-subscription of some courses quickly straightened...
...Whitla is currently engaged in a giant three-year study of the classes of '43 and '52, analyzing the relationship between the pre-college records of these students and their occupational records after college...
Jeffrey C. Griffith '66, Whitla's faculty aide, said that when the total project is complete, Whitla plans to write articles and possibly a book based on his findings...
...Both Whitla and Griffith agreed on the difficulty of conducting such a study. "The project is quite complex." Whitla commented, "because there is no equivalent of college board scores by which to evaluate occupational performance." Questionnaires and personal interviews must be relied upon for information, he said...
...Whitla hopes that the results of his study can be used to help students select the occupation for which they are best suited...