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Tourkin, Steven; Thomas, Teresa; Swaim, Nancy; Cox, Shawna; Parmer, Randall; Jackson, Betty; Cole, Cornette; Zhang, Bei – National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) is conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on behalf of the United States Department of Education in order to collect extensive data on American public and private elementary and secondary schools. SASS provides data on the characteristics and qualifications of teachers and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, National Surveys, Public Schools, Private Schools
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Battle, Danielle; Gruber, Kerry – National Center for Education Statistics, 2009
This report presents selected findings from the school principal data files of the 2007-08 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). SASS is a nationally representative sample survey of public, private, and Bureau of Indian Education-funded (BIE) K-12 schools, principals, and teachers in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The public school…
Descriptors: Principals, Elementary Secondary Education, Tribally Controlled Education, Private Schools
Carpenter, Dick M., II – Institute for Justice, 2007
This document describes the flaws in an October 2007 Wisconsin Policy Research Institute (WPRI) report on public school choice and parental involvement, "Fixing the Milwaukee Public Schools: The Limits of Parent-Driven Reform." Because the report claims that public school choice and parental involvement have little effect on student…
Descriptors: School Choice, Public Schools, Private Schools, Urban Schools
Tourkin, Steven C.; Warner, Toni; Parmer, Randall; Cole, Cornette; Jackson, Betty; Zukerberg, Andrew; Cox, Shawna; Soderberg, Andrew – US Department of Education, 2007
This report serves as the survey documentation for the design and implementation of the 2003-04 Schools and Staffing Survey. Topics covered include the sample design, survey methodology, data collection procedures, data processing, response rates, imputation procedures, weighting and variance estimation, review of the quality of data, the types of…
Descriptors: Surveys, Questionnaires, Data Processing, Research Methodology
Cole, Cornette; Schwanz, Dennis J. – 1998
This document contains two papers related to the 1993-94 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). The first paper documents some of the problems that were encountered during student sample selection and the methods used to resolve those problems. It also provides some suggestions to alleviate some of the problems in future SASS studies. Significant…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Structure, National Surveys
Jackson, Betty J.; Frazier, Richard L. – 1996
In 1987 the U.S. Census Bureau created a universe of private elementary and secondary schools for the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). This universe has been updated every 2 years through list frame updating and area frame updating. For the list frame updating, lists of private schools are obtained from various associations around…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Characteristics, National Surveys
Causey, Beverly D.; Bailey, Leroy – 1999
The Private School Universe Survey (PSS) is a mail survey conducted by the Bureau of the Census under the sponsorship of the National Center for Education Statistics. The survey is designed to provide data relating to all private schools in the United States, but the private schools' list frame remains incomplete despite the best efforts to…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Estimation (Mathematics), Mail Surveys
Cohen, Michael P. – 1988
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) of the National Center for Education Statistics collects data from all sections of postsecondary education. For less-than-two-year institutions, the IPEDS collects data on fall enrollment, completions (earned awards and certificates), etc., from all public institutions in that category and…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases, Estimation (Mathematics)
Spencer, Bruce D.; And Others – 1990
The sampling procedures and results of data collection are documented for the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) base-year survey of eighth graders, which was conducted during the winter, spring, and summer of 1988. This abridged version of the 1989 contractor report does not report any information that could violate the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Assessment, Grade 8, Junior High School Students
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)
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1996
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) conducts a unified set of surveys that facilitates comparison between public and private schools, school districts, and administrator data. The integrated set of surveys is called the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). A Teacher Followup Survey (TFS) is conducted a year after the SASS survey to…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Administration
Faupel, Elizabeth; And Others – 1992
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) sponsored the 1988-89 Teacher Followup Survey (TFS), conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, to update data on teacher career patterns and plans. This survey is a follow-up of the 1987-88 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) teacher sample. The TFS is the fifth component of the SASS. The sample…
Descriptors: Careers, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Followup Studies
Johnson, Eugene G.; And Others – 1990
Details of the design and data analysis associated with the 1988 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are presented. The 1988 NAEP surveyed American students' knowledge of reading, writing, civics, U.S. history, and geography. Small-scale studies were conducted for mathematics and science. Populations included public school students…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Data Analysis, Databases, Educational Assessment
Loft, John D.; And Others – 1995
The National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) is a comprehensive nationwide study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics to determine how students and their families pay for postsecondary education and to describe some demographic and other characteristics of those enrolled. The study is based on a nationally…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Demography, Educational Finance
Kaufman, Steven; Huang, Hertz – 1993
The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) represents the union of three surveys by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the Teacher Demand and Shortage Survey, the School and School Administrator Surveys, and the Teacher Survey. The SASS measures critical aspects of teaching supply and demand, the composition of the teacher and…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Data Collection, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
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