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Chase, Richard; Egbert, Andi; Valorose, Jennifer – Wilder Research, 2011
The Early Childhood Advisory Council (ECAC) in Minnesota makes recommendations to the Governor and Legislature, and is responsible for fulfilling the duties required by federal and state statutes. The Council was created in 2008 by the Governor's Executive Order 08-14. The ECAC consists of 18 members, including the State Director of the Head Start…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Human Services, School Readiness, Disadvantaged Youth
National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, CA. – 2000
This state-by-state report card on higher education was created to assist the United States and each state in assessing and addressing the challenges higher education faces. The report focuses on key areas related to education and training through the baccalaureate degree. Data are from a variety of sources, including public opinion information…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Enrollment, Higher Education
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Div. of Accountability. – 1995
This publication is the sixth issue of a report required by state legislation to examine how well North Carolina schools are serving the children and youth of the state. It presents information that is related primarily to the outcomes of education based on student achievement. Statewide performance results and individual reports for the 119 local…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Attendance, Elementary Secondary Education
Bobbett, Gordon C.; And Others – 1992
Data from the 1990-91 Tennessee school district report cards are used to reexamine some relationships noted in previous studies (G. C. Bobbett and others, 1992) and to gain new insights because of modifications to Tennessee's report cards from 1989 to 1991. Report cards now report the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment results and have added more…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Content Analysis, Decision Making, Educational Improvement
Kochan, Susan E.; And Others – 1994
Louisiana is one of the few states that uses indicator data to produce school report cards for statewide distribution to parents. The system, the Progress Profiles Program, produces report cards that must be accessible, meaningful, and understandable to a lay audience. An evaluation of the 1991-92 report cards was undertaken in 1993. In Phase 1…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Neill, Monty – 1997
In this study, FairTest evaluated how well state assessment practices live up to the promise of high standards without standardization. The practices of states were measured against standards derived from the "Principles and Indicators for Student Assessment Systems," a 1995 publication of education and civil rights groups working…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Decision Making, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Neill, Monty – 1997
FairTest evaluated how well state assessment practices live up to the promise of high standards without standardization. The practices of states were measured against standards derived from the "Principles and Indicators for Student Assessment Systems," a 1995 publication of education and civil rights groups working through the National…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Decision Making, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Bobbett, Gordon C.; French, Russell L. – 1993
As the latest in a series of studies analyzing the data reported on Tennessee's school district report cards, this paper focuses on finding a common statistical treatment to examine the impact of predictor variables on dependent variables. Investigations of the 1988-89 report card data explored the relationships among eight school district…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Outcomes of Education
French, Russell L.; Bobbett, Gordon C. – 1993
Report cards on schools have become common in many states, but their contents and formats vary widely. To study the variations and to determine if the differences in presentation have anything to do with presenting valuable data or with educational policy, a study was undertaken of the report cards of Southeastern states. Five states (Florida,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Community Characteristics, Comparative Analysis
French, Russell L.; Bobbett, Gordon – 1994
School report cards from 11 Southeastern states were studied for similarities and differences in: (1) instruments used to measure student performance; (2) student outcomes reported and the procedures for reporting them; (3) levels of outcome reported; (4) school and community factors reported; and (5) statistical procedures used to evaluate data.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Change
Bobbett, Gordon C.; And Others – 1995
This paper presents the latest in a series of studies examining school district report cards. The purpose was to study the relationships among factors reported on school district report cards from Nevada high schools. The 44 categories reported on Nevada's 1993-94 report card represent the study's independent variables, grouped into the areas of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Demography, Educational Assessment
Bobbett, Gordon C.; And Others – 1995
This paper extends a series of studies examining school district report cards, which began with investigations of Tennessee's report card data. Since 1988, the Texas State Board of Education has produced a report card on each school district to report district-level data. Texas district report card items were organized into student outcome…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, College Entrance Examinations, Demography
Bobbett, Gordon C.; And Others – 1994
This paper presents the latest in a series of studies examining school district report cards for their usefulness planning and implementing school improvement. The 1992-93 Arkansas report cards were studied. These were similar to the report cards from Tennessee that were the subject of the initial study in that they used and reported a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Black Students, College Entrance Examinations