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Adrienne D. Woods; Cecelia Gloski; Yangyang Wang; Paul Morgan – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background: Special education services are individualized supports provided to students with disabilities (SWD) that should help them make appropriate educational progress given their abilities, educational needs, and goals (Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District, 2017). Concerns about the benefits of these services have emerged given the…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Special Education, Students with Disabilities, Access to Education
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Hodges, Jaret – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2020
State databases offer researchers the opportunity to conduct research using data collected by states. These databases contain financial, demographic, and accountability data. Accessing and acquiring data from these repositories, though, can offer challenges to scholars interested in conducting research. This brief describes the type of data…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Use, Educational Research, Gifted Education
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Rogers, Karen B. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1989
This content analysis identifies trends in the kinds of research being conducted on gifted education. Major findings focus on: research reports as a percentage of the total literature, qualities of various computerized databases, varying topics of concern in non-research versus research literature, most frequently researched group, and most common…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Databases, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Ingels, Steven J.; And Others – 1992
This manual provides guidance and documentation for users of the public release data for the student component of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88). The general aim of NELS, a continuing long-term project, is to study the educational, vocational, and personal development of students at various grades and the factors that…
Descriptors: Data Processing, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education, Followup Studies
Reed, Jacqueline K. – 1996
The Prince George's County Public School District is a multiculturally diverse district in Maryland serving a heterogeneous population of students, most of whom are black (70.3%) and many of whom qualify for free or reduced-price meals (40%). The school system welcomes the opportunity to participate in research projects, but has acknowledged its…
Descriptors: Confidentiality, Data Collection, Databases, Educational Policy
Young, Winnie Y. – 1982
Suggestions and guidelines for using the Bureau of the Census' Current Population Survey (CPS) files are provided. CPS is based on the civilian component of a national probability sample of households and is conducted by the Bureau of the Census. The survey gathers employment data on a continuing basis, as well as supplemental information on such…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Cohort Analysis, Data Collection, Data Processing
Baker, David P. – 1996
One prospect for the future of the Schools and Staffing Survey of the National Center for Data Collection is to continue in the direction set by its three previous rounds of surveys. Another approach, the one recommended in this paper, is to make the SASS the main vehicle of NCES for organizational information about U.S. schools from kindergarten…
Descriptors: Databases, Educational Administration, Educational Change, Educational Finance
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Olivier, J. G. J.; And Others – Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 1994
Presents the objective and methodology chosen for the construction of a global emissions source database called EDGAR and the structural design of the database system. The database estimates on a regional and grid basis, 1990 annual emissions of greenhouse gases, and of ozone depleting compounds from all known sources. (LZ)
Descriptors: Air Pollution, Database Design, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education
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McCulloch, Archie – Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 1994
Examines the potential for the replacement of CFCs for historic uses with substituting technologies. The potential production and emissions of the principal HCFCs and HFCs are calculated for the next 25 years. (LZ)
Descriptors: Air Pollution, Database Design, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education
Achilles, C. M.; And Others – 1996
A project conducted in Tennessee from 1984 through 1989, Student Teacher Achievement Ratio (Project STAR), serves as a context for a discussion of educational research. The decisions required in major research projects and the problems in carrying out research are seldom discussed in conferences that present research results as completed efforts.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Databases, Decision Making
Callahan, Carolyn M.; Tomlinson, Carol A.; Hunsaker, Scott L.; Bland, Lori C.; Moon, Tonya – 1995
This report presents results of a series of studies documenting current practices in the evaluation of gifted programs and investigating the factors which make evaluation more useful to decision-makers. The investigation involved establishing several databases containing three kinds of information: (1) abstracts of articles relating to evaluation…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases
Brown, George H.; Faupel, Elizabeth M. – 1987
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the Longitudinal Studies Program (LSP) are major survey projects on educational outcomes performed by the Center for Education Statistics. NAEP is a continuing cross-sectional survey of young Americans' skills, knowledge, and attitudes. The LSP studies follow a sample of students as they…
Descriptors: Conferences, Cross Sectional Studies, Data Collection, Databases
Davis, Celestine, Ed.; Sonnenberg, Bill, Ed. – 1993
This is the third periodic report on the programs and plans of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The challenge facing the NCES is to collect and analyze data that track the growth and change in educational experience in the United States. Current programs toward this goal, future plans, and major publications of the NCES are…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Databases, Educational Assessment, Educational Research
Louis, Karen Seashore – 1981
The movement toward integration of qualitative and quantitative research methods within the same study has been most evident in social policy research. Four major approaches to integrating can be identified in recent studies. The sequential, the parallel, and the fused models have been rather widely used. The interactive model, developed during…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases
Turrell, Linda G. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1997
Suggests a core curriculum for information access skills in automated school library media centers. Student activities are described for six main areas: designing an effective research question, understanding a database, designing a simple search strategy, more advanced search strategies, understanding a computer citation/abstract, and documenting…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Activities, Bibliographies, Computer Literacy
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