NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Publication Date
In 20250
Since 20240
Since 2021 (last 5 years)0
Since 2016 (last 10 years)0
Since 2006 (last 20 years)3
Laws, Policies, & Programs
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing all 13 results Save | Export
Ingels, Steven J.; Herget, Deborah; Pratt, Daniel J.; Dever, Jill; Copello, Elizabeth; Leinwand, Steve – National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
This report examines the results of the field test for the base year of the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09). The general purposes of the field test were, in anticipation of the base-year full-scale effort, to test instruments, forms, and procedures; to experiment with different approaches to questionnaire content and survey…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Field Tests, Sampling, Data Collection
OECD Publishing, 2014
The Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will establish technical standards and guidelines to ensure that the survey design and implementation processes of PIAAC yield high-quality and internationally comparable data. This document provides a revised version of the technical standards and guidelines originally…
Descriptors: Adults, International Assessment, Adult Literacy, Competence
Wine, Jennifer; Cominole, Melissa; Wheeless, Sarah; Bryant, Alyssa; Gilligan, Theresa; Dudley, Kristin; Franklin, Jeff – National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
The 2004/06 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:04/06), conducted for the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), collected information about the education and employment experiences of students in the two years following their first enrollment in postsecondary education. The primary…
Descriptors: College Students, Postsecondary Education, Field Tests, Research Design
Brick, J. Michael; And Others – 1992
The National Household Education Survey (NHES) was conducted for the first time in 1991 as a way to collect data on the early childhood education experiences of young children and participation in adult education. Because the NHES methodology is relatively new, field tests were necessary. A large field test of approximately 15,000 households was…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Data Collection, Early Childhood Education
Research Triangle Inst., Durham, NC. – 1996
This document provides the description, summary, and evaluation of methodological procedures and results for the field test of the 1995-96 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:96). Chapter 1 describes the background, purposes, and scheduled procedures of the NPSAS:96 and the unique purposes of the field test. The NPSAS is a…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Finance, Field Tests, National Surveys
Riccobono, J.; Siegel, P.; Cominole, M.; Dudley, K.; Charleston, S.; Link, M. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2005
The 2004 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:04), conducted for the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), collected comprehensive data regarding how students and their families pay for postsecondary education. The primary objective of NPSAS:04 is to produce reliable national estimates of…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Field Tests, National Surveys, Sampling
Mohadjer, Leyla; And Others – 1992
The National Household Education Survey (NHES) was conducted for the first time in 1991 as a way to collect data on the early childhood education experiences of young children and participation in adult education. Because the NHES methodology is relatively new, field tests were necessary. A large field test of approximately 15,000 households was…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Data Collection, Dropout Research
Brick, J. Michael; And Others – 1992
The National Household Education Survey (NHES) was conducted for the first time in 1991 to collect data on the early childhood education (ECE) experiences of young children and participation in adult education. Because the NHES methodology is relatively new, field tests were necessary. A large field test of approximately 15,000 households was…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Age Groups, Data Collection
Brick, J. Michael; West, Jerry – 1992
The National Household Education Survey (NHES) was conducted for the first time in 1991 as a way to collect data on the early childhood education experiences of young children and participation in adult education. Because the NHES methodology is relatively new, field tests were necessary. A large field test of approximately 15,000 households was…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Age Groups, Data Collection
Puma, Michael; Bell, Stephen; Shapiro, Gary; Broene, Pam; Cook, Ronna; Friedman, Janet; Heid, Camilla – 2001
Along with the rapid expansion over the past decade of Head Start, a program providing comprehensive early childhood development services to low-income children, their families, and their communities, has come the demand for rigorous research to demonstrate program effectiveness. This report describes the proposed design of a national study of the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Delivery Systems
Beaton, Albert E.; And Others – 1988
This report supplies details of the design and data analysis of the 1986 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to allow the reader to judge the utility of the design, data quality, reasonableness of assumptions, appropriateness of data analyses, and generalizability of inferences made from the data. After an introduction by A. E.…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Processing, Databases, Field Tests
Mohadjer, Leyla; West, Jerry – 1992
The National Household Education Survey (NHES) was conducted for the first time in 1991 as a way to collect data on the early childhood education experiences of young children and participation in adult education. Because the NHES methodology is relatively new, field tests were necessary. A large field test of approximately 15,000 households was…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Black Students, Data Collection, Demography
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