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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
Download full textWilkinson, Larry; And Others – 1976
This report presents the findings of a research study, conducted by the College of the Mainland (COM) as a subcontractor for Project FOLLOW-UP, designed to test the accuracy of random sampling and to measure non-response bias in mail surveys. In 1975, a computer-generated random sample of 500 students was drawn from a population of 1,256 students…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Followup Studies, Institutional Research, Questionnaires
Peer reviewedDent, Clyde W.; Sussman, Steve Y.; Stacy, Alan W. – Evaluation Review, 1997
Differences between means, variance, and correlation parameter estimates from a full school sample and samples restricted by parental consent were studied with 1,609 students at continuation high schools and 1,192 at traditional high schools. Sample bias due to consent policies may not be a substantive problem, especially if a telephone consent…
Descriptors: Correlation, Drug Use, Estimation (Mathematics), High School Students
Kaplan, David – 2000
This paper offers recommendations to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on the development of the background questionnaire for the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL). The recommendations are from the viewpoint of a researcher interested in applying sophisticated statistical models to address important issues in adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Background, Cohort Analysis
Montaquila, Jill M.; Brick, J. Michael; Brock, Shelley P. – 1997
The National Household Education Survey (NHES) is a telephone survey of the noninstitutionalized civilian population of the United States that collects data on educational issues that are best explored through contact with households rather than with institutions. The NHES has been conducted in 1991, 1993, 1995, and 1996. In the 1996 NHES…
Descriptors: Adults, Blacks, Citizen Participation, Cost Effectiveness
Ingels, Steven J. – 1991
Some students are excluded from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) because of an inability, whether due to physical, mental, or linguistic barriers, to participate in studies requiring questionnaire or cognitive test completion. The implications of this exclusion for sample representativeness, national estimation, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Data Collection, Disqualification, Eligibility
Kasprzyk, Dan, Ed. – 1997
The 11 papers in this volume were presented at the 1996 American Statistical Association (ASA) meeting in Chicago (Illinois), August 4 through 8. This is the fourth collection of ASA papers of particular interest to users of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) survey data published in the "Working Papers" series. The…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Estimation (Mathematics)
Russ-Eft, Darlene F. – 1981
A framework is described for preparing process profiles of two different surveys conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES): the Recent College Graduates Survey and the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) Fall Enrollment Survey. The process profile examines the adequacy of the entire survey process, using…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Error of Measurement, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Whipple, Thomas W.; Muffo, John A. – 1982
A method of adjusting for bias due to nonresponse to an alumni survey is demonstrated, based upon analysis of data from both on-time and late respondents. The responses are opinions of 254 alumni regarding how they rate their recently completed program of study within a college of an urban university. As part of the university's curriculum review…
Descriptors: Alumni, Attitude Measures, College Graduates, College Programs
Williams, Stephen R.; Folsom, Ralph E., Jr. – 1976
As in any very large survey, the sample that provided data for the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS) differed from the random sample of the study design because of nonresponse from 226 of the 1,200 schools in the primary sample, and a small amount of other missing data. Part A of this report, briefly describes the…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Followup Studies, Graduate Surveys, High School Graduates
Spencer, Bruce; Sebring, Penny; Campbell, Barbara – National Center for Education Statistics, 1987
This report is the methodology report for the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 follow-up in 1986. The fifth follow-up survey of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS-72) took place during spring and summer of 1986. A mail questionnaire was sent to a subsample of 14,489 members of the…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, High Schools, National Surveys, Annual Reports
Grover, Burton L.; Post, Richard L. – 1984
The Arlington, Washington, School District--a mostly rural district with enrollment of 2,790--conducted a survey of its public using both blanket mailing and random sampling procedures in order to compare the views of the total population with the views of the typically small percentage who mail back a questionnaire. The questionnaire contained 29…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Surveys, Comparative Analysis, Data Interpretation
