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Warren, John Robert; Saliba, Jim – Educational Researcher, 2012
How many students repeat a grade each year? How do retention rates vary across states and over time? Despite extensive research on the predictors and consequences of grade retention, there is no systematic way to quantify state-level retention rates; even national estimates rely on imperfect proxy measures. We present a conceptually simple…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, School Holding Power, Public Education, National Surveys
Purdam, Kingsley; Afkhami, Reza; Olsen, Wendy; Thornton, Patricia – Disability & Society, 2008
In this article we identify the key survey data for examining the issue of equality in the lives of disabled people in the UK. Such data is essential for assessing change in quality of life over time and for the evaluation of the impact of policy initiatives. For each data source we consider definitions, data collection, issue coverage, sample…
Descriptors: Definitions, Quality of Life, Disabilities, National Surveys
Bavier, Richard – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2008
A recent series of papers has renewed interest in the question of whether consumption data are superior to income data for poverty measurement. Although the Census Bureau has provided researchers with an experimental series of variables that can produce a comprehensive income measure, this resource has not been fully exploited in previous…
Descriptors: Poverty, Income, Money Management, Consumer Economics
Bryant, E. Earl; And Others – 1973
This report presents considerations for sample design and estimation procedures for the Health Examination Survey, one of the major survey programs employed by the National Center for Health Statistics. The survey collects data which provide national estimates and distributions of various health characteristics related to the growth and…
Descriptors: Children, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Health

Adams, Arvil V.; Krislov, Joseph – Research in Higher Education, 1978
Using the quartile deviation of faculty salary data as a measure of institutional quality, the authors ranked the 138 major universities designated by AAUP as Class I institutions. Since the results were similar to other ranking systems and salary data are readily available, it is argued that studies of salaries hold promise as measures of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Quality, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education

Moyer, R. Charles; Kretlow, William J. – Higher Education, 1978
Two hundred college and university vice presidents of finance were questioned about the evaluation processes currently used by their institutions in making resource allocation decisions. A strong parallel with hospital budgeting was found, with prestige maximization subject to some overall budget constraint. A longer range approach to academic…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Planning, Decision Making, Educational Economics
Hawkins, Brian L.; Rudy, Julia A. – EDUCAUSE, 2007
EDUCAUSE Core Data Service Fiscal Year 2006 Summary Report summarizes much of the data collected through the 2006 EDUCAUSE core data survey about campus information technology (IT) environments at 933 colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad. The report presents aggregates of data through more than 100 tables and accompanying descriptive…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Information Systems, Information Technology, Classification
WELCH, WAYNE W.; AND OTHERS – 1967
MEMBERS OF THE EVALUATION SECTION OF HARVARD PROJECT PHYSICS, DESCRIBING WHAT IS SAID TO BE THE FIRST ATTEMPT TO SELECT A NATIONAL RANDOM SAMPLE OF (HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICS) TEACHERS, LIST THE STEPS AS (1) PURCHASE OF A LIST OF PHYSICS TEACHERS FROM THE NATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION (MOST COMPLETE AVAILABLE), (2) SELECTION OF 136 NAMES BY A…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Evaluation Methods, Experimental Groups, National Surveys