DIVERSE INFORMATION-GATHERING METHODS IN THE POSTSECONDARY DECISION-MAKING PROCESS

This study examined the techniques high school students used to gather information about postsecondary education and institutions. The resea rchers designated students as ''highly diversified'' or ''less diversi fied'' searchers and identified background characteristics and informa tion-gathering behaviors using factor analysis and discriminant analys is. High diversification was significantly related to, among other thi ngs, student certainty about proposed academic major and satisfaction with the student's chosen postsecondary institution.