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Download full textBaj, 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
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
Zhang, Fan; Saba, Mehrdad; Scanlon, Brian R. – 1995
Several technical issues related to the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) were studied. The 1990-91 SASS is a set of four inter-related surveys of public and private elementary and secondary schools, districts, teachers, and administrators conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Preliminary analysis of the 1990-91 SASS…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education, Estimation (Mathematics)
Folke, Carolyn Winters – Database, 1982
Presents the results of a study comparing several sources of state-oriented curriculum materials conducted as part of the Wisconsin Development Project (WDP), and outlines the reasons for the use of ERIC as the most efficient means for locating such materials. Two tables accompany the text. (JL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Guides, Databases, Elementary Schools
Council of Chief State School Officers, Washington, DC. – 1986
The terms, definitions, and procedures used by states in obtaining student counts are investigated as part of the Education Data Improvement Project of the Council of Chief State School Officers. The Project describes state collection of data elements currently contained in the common core of data of the National Center for Education Statistics.…
Descriptors: Average Daily Membership, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Databases
Wittebols, James H.; Sockwell, Recardo – 1986
Summaries are presented of individual state practices for collecting selected universe terms and data elements for the Education Data Improvement Project of the Council of Chief State School Officers. The Project is a joint effort of the states and Federal government to improve the quality and timeliness of data collected, analyzed, and reported…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases
Texas State Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, Austin. – 1994
The Texas Automated Student and Adult Learner Follow-Up System was developed as part of a larger effort to improve and coordinate the delivery of education and training of a skilled work force. The primary task of the Follow-Up System in Program Year 1993-94 was to obtain outcome information on the former students and participants of the work…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Data Processing, 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
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1996
The Common Core of Data (CCD) is the primary database of the National Center for Education Statistics on elementary and secondary education in the United States. CCD is a comprehensive, annual, national statistical database of all elementary and secondary schools and school districts. It contains data that are comparable across all states, and all…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Jacobson, David W., Ed. – 1981
This compendium of four mini-projects carried out by a special task force of the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) addresses policy and management issues related to providing accessibility to handicapped students in higher education. Topics range from executive policy decisions on compliance with federal…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Assistive Devices (for Disabled), College Students, Comparative Analysis
