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Download full textRedford, Jeremy; Burns, Stephanie; Hall, L. Jane – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
This Statistics in Brief investigates some factors that may contribute to achievement gaps in the summer after kindergarten, including differences in children's experiences, such as participation in summer care arrangements, programs, and activities. Specifically, the brief describes students' summer nonparental care arrangements, program…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Student Characteristics
Curtis, David D.; Mlotkowski, Peter; Lumsden, Marilyn – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
Taking a break between completing high school and entering university is common overseas, and is becoming more popular in Australia. There are many reasons why young people take a gap year. It may be to travel, to take a break, to study, or to work. The authors' definition of a "gapper" is a young person who commenced university one to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cohort Analysis, Longitudinal Studies, Predictor Variables
Lumsden, Marilyn; Stanwick, John – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
Taking a gap year--a break between high school and university--is becoming increasingly popular with Australian students. In terms of length and purpose, the traditional notion of a gap year being a year off between school and university has expanded considerably over time. For the purposes of the analysis reported in this paper, a person who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Employment Patterns, Vocational Education
Koester, Jolene – 1985
The responses of U.S. students to a questionnaire that was attached to applications for the International Student Identity Card are presented and analyzed. The data were gathered in a study of the characteristics, attitudes, financial support, prior experience abroad, and study and travel arrangements of U.S. students going abroad. After an…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Financial Support, Majors (Students), National Surveys
Archer, Billie D. A.; Bailey, Jerry D. – 2000
This report contains two studies. The first study was conducted in order to obtain a profile of Kansas students in the 1999 class of National Merit Semifinalists (NMSFs). A survey was mailed to 166 students. Data were analyzed in terms of age, gender, race, language, family characteristics, high schools attended, extracurricular activities,…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Age, Career Choice, Extracurricular Activities
Koester, Jolene – 1987
A survey of United States students studying and traveling abroad was conducted with a questionnaire distributed in the 1984 and 1985 applications for the International Student Identity Card. In 1984 all applications processed in New York were included in this study; in 1985 one out of every three applications was sampled. The total number of…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Collection, High School Students, High Schools
