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Ruddy, Sally A.; Bauer, Lynn; Neiman, Samantha – National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
This report provides estimates of criminal incidents that occur at school. Incident-level data were obtained from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the nation's primary source of information on criminal victimization and criminal incidents in the United States. The NCVS collects demographic information on respondents in the NCVS…
Descriptors: School Buses, Weapons, Violence, Crime
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Kim, Sooyeon; Linvingston, Samuel A.; Lewis, Charles – ETS Research Report Series, 2008
This paper describes an empirical evaluation of a Bayesian procedure for equating scores on test forms taken by small numbers of examinees, using collateral information from the equating of other test forms. In this procedure, a separate Bayesian estimate is derived for the equated score at each raw-score level, making it unnecessary to specify a…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Statistical Analysis, Sample Size, Bayesian Statistics
Ingels, Steven J.; Scott, Leslie A.; Taylor, John R.; Owings, Jeffrey; Quinn, Peggy – 1998
This technical report documents the methodology of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) base year survey of eighth graders through the 1992 second followup survey of high school students and dropouts. Chapter 1 begins with an overview and history of the NELS:88 and its database, Chapter 2 contains a description of the data…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Databases, Error of Measurement, Followup Studies
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Riccobono, John; Henderson, Louise B.; Burkheimer, Graham J.; Place, Carol; Levinsohn, Jay R. – National Center for Education Statistics, 1981
The National Longitudinal Study (NLS) of the High School Class of 1972 is a large-scale long-term survey effort supported by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement in the U.S. Department of Education. NLS is designed to provide statistics on a national sample…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, National Surveys, Followup Studies, High School Graduates