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Craven, Laura M.; Trygstad, Peggy J. – Horizon Research, Inc., 2020
The 2018 NSSME+ was based on a national probability sample of schools and computer science, mathematics, and science teachers in grades K-12 in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The sample was designed to yield national estimates of course offerings and enrollment, teacher background preparation, textbook usage, instructional techniques,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
DePaoli, Jennifer L.; Balfanz, Robert; Bridgeland, John; Atwell, Matthew; Ingram, Erin S. – Civic Enterprises, 2017
This year signifies two key milestones in the GradNation campaign to raise high school graduation rates. First, the release of the 2015 federal graduation rate data marks five years since states began reporting the Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR). The ACGR, for the first time, created a common formula for collecting graduation rate…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, High Schools, Public Schools
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Lauff, Erich; Ingels, Steven J. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
The Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002) tracks the educational and developmental experiences of a nationally representative sample of United States high school students who were sophomores in the spring of 2002. This First Look report provides a descriptive portrait of their postsecondary education experiences through the end of the…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, High School Students, Student Records, Postsecondary Education
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Neiman, Samantha – National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
The National Center for Education Statistics collects data on crime and violence in U.S. public schools through the School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS). This First Look report presents findings from the 2009-10 School Survey on Crime and Safety data collection. Developed and managed by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Crime, Safety, School Surveys
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Radford, Alexandria Walton; Horn, Laura – National Center for Education Statistics, 2012
These Web Tables provide an overview of classes taken and credits earned by a nationwide sample of first-time beginning postsecondary students based on data from the Postsecondary Education Transcript Study (PETS) of the 2004/09 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study. PETS collected transcripts from all the postsecondary institutions…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, College Freshmen, Academic Records, Longitudinal Studies
Horng, Eileen Lai; Klasik, Daniel; Loeb, Susanna – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2009
School principals have complex jobs. To better understand the work lives of principals, this study uses observational time-use data for all high school principals in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. This paper examines the relationship between the time principals spent on different types of activities and school outcomes including student…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Principals, High Schools, Time Management
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Glaister, P. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2004
Two techniques for determining a straight line fit to data are compared. This article reviews two simple techniques for fitting a straight line to a set of data, namely the method of averages and the method of least squares. These methods are compared by showing the results of a simple analysis, together with a number of tests based on randomized…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Engineering, Teaching Methods
Jones, Calvin C.; Spencer, Bruce D. – Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1986
The first High School and Beyond follow-up survey, conducted in 1982, included sub-samples of 29,737 sophomore cohort and 11,995 senior cohort representatives from the base year survey samples. During the fall of 1982, nearly 18,500 of the sophomore cohort members selected for the first follow-up survey were subsampled for the High School and…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, High School Students, Student Surveys, Research Design
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Spencer, Bruce; Sebring, Penny; Campbell, Barbara – National Center for Education Statistics, 1987
This report is the methodology report for the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 follow-up in 1986. The fifth follow-up survey of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS-72) took place during spring and summer of 1986. A mail questionnaire was sent to a subsample of 14,489 members of the…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, High Schools, National Surveys, Annual Reports