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Martinez, Mario C.; Ivory, Gary – 2002
Correlation and multiple regression analyses revealed the extent to which the report card grades of Quality Counts 2002, prepared by Education Week, were intercorrelated with and predicted by demographic factors among many states. The researchers used four grades from Quality Counts 2002 and five demographic factors. Few intercorrelations were…
Descriptors: Correlation, Demography, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
Grip, Richard S.; Young, John W. – 1999
This report is based on a study in which a regression model was constructed to increase accuracy in enrollment predictions. A model, known as the Modified Regression Technique (MRT), was used to examine K-12 enrollment over the past 20 years in 2 New Jersey school districts of similar size and ethnicity. To test the model's accuracy, MRT was…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Management, Enrollment Projections
Jennings, Tara A.; Kovalski, Theresa M.; Behrens, John T. – 2000
Educators consider student mobility one of the most important variables associated with achievement, but there is little agreement on how to measure mobility. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between academic achievement and a variety of possible definitions of mobility using archival school attendance records. A second…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Definitions, Elementary Education
Yap, Kim O. – 1997
This paper describes an evaluation strategy designed to assess the efficacy of an education system at the district level. The strategy provides a measure of accountability that takes into account the potential effects of demographic variables. The study focused on Bellevue Public Schools (Washington), a medium-sized district near Seattle with an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Bilingual Education, Databases
Garner, Catherine L. – 1989
This study tested for the existence of neighborhood effects on end of school educational attainment some 2,500 urban youth who left school between 1984 and 1986 in one educational authority in Scotland. Data were drawn from a student survey and from the United Kingdom 1981 Census of Population. A hierarchical linear regression model was used to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Economically Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries, Influences
Toutkoushian, Robert K. – 1998
Multiple regression analysis was used to examine data from the 1994-95 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System survey to determine the characteristics that influence institutional costs and, in the process, to identify policies that could reduce costs. The data universe consisted of 828 public and private 4-year institutions that did not…
Descriptors: Correlation, Costs, Educational Administration, Educational Finance
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Fetler, Mark E. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1990
Two methods for constructing differentiated school norms and computing percentile ranks for school mean achievement accounting for demographic background factors are illustrated. These methods, which account for socioeconomic conditions that are beyond the control of the school, are applied to two large samples of schools (n=1,573 and n=797,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Evaluation Methods, High School Students, High Schools
Sellers, Alfred H.; And Others – 1990
The relationships between intellectual and demographic variables of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) were examined. Subjects were 2,200 children in the WISC-R standardization sample. Four multiple regression analyses were performed between Full Scale and Verbal Comprehension, Perceptual Organization, and Freedom from…
Descriptors: Children, Comprehension, Cultural Influences, Demography
Bernhardt, Victoria L.; And Others – 1983
The issues of achieving school desegregation and providing programs for students with special needs, while at the same time facing enrollment declines, have forced school administrators to improve techniques for projecting demand. This paper describes a new procedure that combines forecasting of enrollments and management of facilities and that…
Descriptors: Attendance, Computer Oriented Programs, Declining Enrollment, Educational Facilities Planning