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Department of Justice, Washington, DC. Office of Justice Programs. – 2002
Violence and crime in schools affect students and their families, school employees and administrators, law enforcement and criminal justice officials, policymakers, and communities. Enactment of strong, concise school violence reporting laws is a crucial first step on the road to making schools safe and violence free. This bulletin provides an…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Recordkeeping, School Safety, State Legislation
Baseline Assessment Literature Review and Pre-School Record Keeping in Scotland. Interchange No. 55.
Wilkinson, J. Eric; Watt, Joyce; Napuk, Angela; Normand, Barbara – Interchange, 1998
Every opportunity should be taken to communicate research findings both inside and outside government programs and make them accessible to policy makers, teachers, lecturers, parents, and employers. The "Interchange" series aims to further improve the Educational Research Unit's (ERU) dissemination of the findings of research funded by…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research, Foreign Countries

Kaczmarek, Peggy; And Others – Counselor Education and Supervision, 1996
Identifies 13 specific teaching strategies that counselor educators can infuse into existing course work to provide a more systematized approach to training in client documentation. (Author/KW)
Descriptors: Case Records, Counselor Training, Data Collection, Documentation
Billingsley, Felix F.; Liberty, Kathleen A. – Journal of the Association for the Severely Handicapped (JASH), 1982
The article suggests that accuracy data alone provide insufficient information upon which to base instructional decisions, particularly for severely handicapped students. It discusses the merits of data that relate behavior to a time base. Characteristics of various time-based measures are described and data collection examples are presented.…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation
Hansen, Cheryl L., Ed.; Haring, Norris G., Ed. – 1980
The document contains seven papers from the Child Assessment Topical Workshop designed to raise participant awareness of basic assessment issues involved in screening, placement, and measurement of daily performance; to provide specific information about the assessment process, including collecting, organizing, analyzing, and using data; and to…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Decision Making, Diagnostic Tests, Disabilities
Mirochnik, Denise; McCaul, Edward J. – 1990
This paper examines existing research regarding the problem of school dropouts. It examines the historical context of the problem and discusses current definitions and methods for identifying dropout characteristics and computing dropout rates. Few incentives exist for accurate record-keeping on dropouts. School finances are often linked to…
Descriptors: Community Role, Data Collection, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention

Cohen, Arthur M. – 1979
Accurate data on the number of students who transfer from two-year colleges to senior colleges are not available because the ways of counting transfers vary greatly from system to system and state to state. While most studies define transfer students as those who have taken courses at a community college and subsequently enroll at a senior…
Descriptors: College Credits, College Transfer Students, Data Collection, Definitions