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Download full textSmith, Wray; Ghosh, Dhiren; Chang, Michael – 1997
This technical report provides an updated assessment of the problem of optimizing the periodicity of the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). Making use of data from three rounds of SASS data collection (for school years 1987-88, 1990-91, and 1993-94), the report extends and updates the preliminary findings and interim assessments that were…
Descriptors: Costs, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematical Models
Wu, Grace; Royal, Mark; McLaughlin, Don – 1997
The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) of the National Center for Education Statistics offers the most comprehensive picture available of elementary and secondary schools in the United States. The value of the SASS would be even greater if information on districts and schools could be related directly to student outcomes. A relatively inexpensive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Characteristics, Models
Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc., Arlington, VA. – 1994
The 1987-88 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) looked at a national sample of elementary and secondary public and private schools. Components of the SASS, a data collection effort of the National Center for Education Statistics, were surveys of teacher demand and shortage, schools, administrators, and teachers. Approximately 13,000 schools and…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Error of Measurement, Estimation (Mathematics)
Garet, Michael S.; Chan, Tsze H.; Isaacs, Julia B.; Sherman, Joel D. – 1997
Although policy makers have expressed interest in expenditures by private elementary and secondary schools, nationally representative data in this area are not available. In the absence of expenditure data it may nevertheless be possible to derive national estimates of total expenditures by private schools indirectly, by using the information that…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Data Collection, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Kasprzyk, Dan, Ed. – 1997
The 11 papers in this volume were presented at the 1996 American Statistical Association (ASA) meeting in Chicago (Illinois), August 4 through 8. This is the fourth collection of ASA papers of particular interest to users of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) survey data published in the "Working Papers" series. The…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Estimation (Mathematics)
