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Spencer, Bruce D. – 1986
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) currently tests seventeen-year-old students enrolled in public and private secondary schools, but it does not test "out-of-school" seventeen-year-olds who have either graduated or dropped out. Estimating that one of five seventeen-year-olds is out of school, the interpretability of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cohort Analysis, Dropouts, Educational Assessment
Rock, Donald A.; And Others – 1985
The Educational Testing Service (ETS) was contracted by the National Center for Education Statistics to investigate changes in tested achievement using cross-sectional comparisons between the 1972 National Longitudinal Study (NLS) seniors and the 1980 High School and Beyond (HSB) senior cohort. The ETS is also responsible for estimating the extent…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cohort Analysis, Comparative Testing, Ethnicity