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Johnson, Eugene G.; And Others – 1990
Details of the design and data analysis associated with the 1988 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are presented. The 1988 NAEP surveyed American students' knowledge of reading, writing, civics, U.S. history, and geography. Small-scale studies were conducted for mathematics and science. Populations included public school students…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Data Analysis, Databases, Educational Assessment
Tabler, Kenneth – 1977
Activities involved in the collection and assembling of data for computer processing from the first followup survey of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS) are briefly described. Included are an overview of the NLS; the sample design and survey participation; the development of the first followup survey…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases, Followup Studies
Harckham, Laura D.; Erger, Donald V. – 1972
A study to compare the effects of reading achievement of informal and formal British infant schools is discussed. The informal school, for children from 5-8 years old, utilizes one or more of the following: integrated day, family or vertical grouping, open planning, and team teaching. The formal schools follow a prescribed curriculum and group…
Descriptors: British Infant Schools, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Design, Data Analysis
Selfa, Lance A.; Suter, Natalie; Koch, Shaun; Zahs, Daniel A.; Kuhr, Brian D.; Myers, Sharon; Johnson, Robert A.; Abraham, Sameer Y.; Zimbler, Linda J. – 1997
The 1992-93 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF-93), the second cycle of this study, surveyed institutions and faculty, with a sample of 974 public and private nonproprietary higher education institutions and 31,354 faculty members. The study was designed to provide a national profile of faculty, including their professional…
Descriptors: Coding, College Faculty, Colleges, Data Analysis
Westat, Inc., Rockville, MD. – 1990
To establish a comprehensive national database on postsecondary student financial aid, the National Center for Education Statistics conducted the 1987 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS). Objectives were to: (1) determine the costs of postsecondary education for aided and non-aided students; (2) evaluate how students finance their…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Database Design
Bailey, J. P., Jr. – 1976
The status of the high school class of 1972, as it was two years after graduation in October 1974, is described in terms of questionnaire survey responses. Students from 1,153 high schools participated and 20,872 students responded to the questionnaire out of the total group of 23,451. The development, administration, and reliability of the survey…
Descriptors: Attendance, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases
Linn, Robert L. – 1978
The three RMC models endorsed by the U.S. Office of Education for the evaluation of Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I programs are based on narrowly conceived approaches to evaluation--the measurement of cognitive achievement gains. Each model requires the comparison of observed student performance with an estimate of what level of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Control Groups
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. Div. of Evaluation. – 1974
The Kentucky Education Assessment Program is an ongoing effort to gather information regarding progress toward attainment of the educational goals for Kentucky citizens. Major emphasis is on the determination of the actual level of pupil performance in relation to desired performance. In the eighth grade, relevant information was gathered in five…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Citizenship, Data Analysis
Erickson, Donald A.; Madaus, George F. – 1971
This document reports on the role of the Federal Government in rendering financial aid to non-public schools. This report includes facts and attitudes. A two-fold approach toward gaining attitudinal data was undertaken. A critical review of existing attitudinal data was commissioned and an analysis of the attitudinal data gathered as part of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitudes, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Barone, John L.; And Others – 1986
This document is the users' guide for Version 3.1 of the Public-Use data tapes compiled by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 1983-84. The Public-Use tapes are produced to allow outside researchers access to the NAEP data. The tapes accompanying this guide contain data assessing student achievement in reading and writing at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Storage Devices, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Research Triangle Inst., Durham, NC. Center for Educational Research and Evaluation. – 1973
This conference was held to review the base year activities of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS) and the First Followup Study. Planning also took place for the design of the Second Followup Study and the Cohort Study of the High School Class of 1977. The participants included invited consultants and…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Dropouts
Stern, David; Wing, Jean Yonemura – Career Academy Support Network, 2004
In this paper the authors illustrate the use of a strict standard for evaluating evidence on programs and strategies designed to improve outcomes for high school students. They explain what they mean by solid evidence, and present examples from multi-site evaluations of three programs. After that they examine some of the evidence on high school…
Descriptors: School Size, Inferences, High School Students, Evaluation Methods
Loft, John D.; And Others – 1995
The National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) is a comprehensive nationwide study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics to determine how students and their families pay for postsecondary education and to describe some demographic and other characteristics of those enrolled. The study is based on a nationally…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Demography, Educational Finance
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1994
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) integrated some of its national surveys of educational information into the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), which was initiated in 1987-88 and is being repeated at intervals to provide information about the nation's schools and their educators. The 1988-89 Teacher Followup Survey (TFS), a…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Planning
Gressard, Clarice P.; Loyd, Brenda H. – 1985
The effectiveness of multiple matrix sampling was examined in a study of 495 students' attitudes toward a computer education program. A post hoc analysis of variance was used, with the class as the unit of analysis. The Computer Attitude Scale, a 30-item rating scale, was used to measure attitudes toward learning about and working with computers.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Attitude Measures, Class Size, Classroom Research
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