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Direct linkBastian, Kevin C.; Marks, Julie T. – American Educational Research Journal, 2017
Given concerns with the performance and attrition of novice teachers, North Carolina allocated $7.7 million from Race to the Top to create the New Teacher Support Program (NTSP), an induction model developed and implemented by the state's public university system and targeted at low-performing schools. In this study, we assess the associations…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction, Teacher Education Programs, Low Achievement
Wang, Aubrey H.; Walters, Alyssa M.; Thum, Y. M. – International Journal of Educational Management, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical comparison of two measures of school success -- a value-added assessment system and the federally-mandated system of adequate yearly progress (AYP) -- to identify highly effective urban schools in the USA and to explore the predictive relationship between evidence-based decision-making…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Educational Indicators, Federal Programs
Download full textCahalan, Margaret; Goodwin, David – Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, 2014
In January 2009, in the last week of the Bush Administration, the U.S. Department of Education (ED), upon orders from the departing political appointee staff, published the final report in a long running National Evaluation of Upward Bound (UB). The study was conducted by the contractor, Mathematica Policy Research. After more than a year in…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, College Readiness, Access to Education, Data Analysis
Schuh, John H. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2002
Describes the use of the federal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and how it can be used to make informed comparisons of institutions of higher education. (EV)
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Educational Improvement
Baj, John; And Others – 1991
A project studied use of state unemployment insurance (UI) wage-record data for Program Year 1986 to assess the effectiveness of Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs. Eleven of 27 interested states were selected by ability to meet data requirements. These issues associated with the use of UI data as an assessment tool were explored:…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Database Design
Triplett, Suzanne E. – 1986
The Education Data Improvement Project of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is described. The conceptual framework that guided its implementation is presented. The Education Data Improvement Project was designed to promote and facilitate the reform and refinement of the Center for Education Statistics (CES) national elementary and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education
Wittebols, James H. – 1986
Recommendations designed to assist states in the creation of meaningful definitions of types of schools and students for use in the Council of Chief State School Officers' Education Data Improvement Project are presented. The Project's goals are to promote and facilitate the reform and refinement of the National Center for Education Statistics'…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Databases
Brandhorst, Ted, Ed. – 1989
The result of a comprehensive search for writings about the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) published between 1985 and 1988, this annotated bibliography lists 107 documents and journal articles about ERIC that were entered in the ERIC database during that period. The 1964-1978 edition cited 269 items. The 1979-1984 edition cited…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Clearinghouses, Comparative Analysis, Databases
Brown, Kenneth G.; And Others – 1980
A research project underway at the University of Arizona is described, and the usefulness of the national data system of the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) to institutional researchers, as well as some drawbacks of the system, are considered. The need for institutions to have data on enrollment, budgets, and faculty/students…
Descriptors: College Planning, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Databases
Triplett, Suzanne E. – 1986
Specific issues to be resolved, prior to including federal programs information on school and school district universe files, are identified and discussed as part of the Education Data Improvement Project of the Council of Chief State School Officers. Goals of this Project are to describe state collection of data elements currently in the common…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Databases
