The National Study of Protest Events (NSPE) employed hypernetwork sampling to generate the first-ever nationally representative sample of protest events. Nearly complete information about various event characteristics was collected from participants in 1,037 unique protests across the United States in 2010 to 2011. The first part of this article…

The OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) is the largest international survey of teachers and school leaders. Using the TALIS database, this report looks at different approaches to school leadership and the impact of school leadership on professional learning communities and on the learning climate in individual schools. It looks…

Objective: The study: (1) provides the first assessment of the a "priori" measurement model and psychometric properties of the Organizational Social Context (OSC) measurement system in a US nationwide probability sample of child welfare systems; (2) illustrates the use of the OSC in constructing norm-based organizational culture and climate…

Collective traumas can negatively affect large numbers of people who ostensibly did not experience events directly, making it particularly important to identify which people are most vulnerable to developing mental and physical health problems as a result of such events. It is commonly believed that successful coping with a traumatic event…

Some results from the first year of the national assessment of educational progress project. (RA) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Results (Interpretation).

This report presents 3-day food intake data for about 36,l00 individuals in the 48 conterminous States. The information was collected from April 1977 through March 1978 in the Nationwide Food Consumption Survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Data on food intakes and characteristics of the sample are presented in 510 tables.…

A July 1963-December 1965 survey of children aged 6 to 11 reported data on 21 body measurements. The examination of the children had two emphases. The first concerned factors related to healthy growth and development as determined by a physician, nurse, dentist, and psychologist. The second concerned a variety of somatic and physiologic…

This report presents final data on public high school graduates for the 1985-86 school year. It includes tabulations for public schools on the number of graduates, 12th-grade student membership, and 9th-grade student membership in the year the graduates were 9th-grade students. Data in this report were due from State education agencies to the…

THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING TRADE-COMPETENCY EXAMINATIONS ON A NATIONAL BASIS WAS INVESTIGATED, AND THE POTENTIAL UTILITY OF CURRENTLY DEVELOPED INSTRUMENTS WAS ASSESSED. TWO 1-DAY SEMINARS WERE HELD, AND, AT THE FIRST SEMINAR, FOUR INFORMAL PRESENTATIONS WERE MADE FOLLOWED BY SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS. AT THE SECOND SEMINAR, FOUR PAPERS WERE READ…

This report is part of the National Assessment on what children know and can do in science. The results are reported in terms of percentages of respondents who provide correct responses to specific exercises. Among the interesting results are the following: (1) Males performed better than females, increasingly through the four National Assessment…

This document uses data from the National Center for Education Statistics' 1987-88 and 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) to address questions about the proportions of school principals who are women. Findings indicate that women are increasingly holding public school principalships; however, there are still more women principals in the…

One of a series of reports on the International Project for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (in Mathmatics).

National normative data on the characteristics of students entering colleges as first-time, full-time freshmen in 1969 are presented in this annual report, the fourth in a series developed as part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program being conducted by the Office of Research of the American Council on Education. The program's major…

The National Assessment of Educational Progress is encouraging the interpretation of its data to make them more useful for local educators, and is facilitating the adaptation of NAEP procedures to State and local assessment programs. The Department of Utilization/Applications was formed in October 1971 to facilitate the use of technology developed…