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Download full textDziuban, Charles; And Others – 1974
The school district fiscal capacity data (1962 and 1967) of the National Finance Project were analyzed for psychometric adequacy and robustness of component composition. The procedures involved: (1) the computation of the Kaiser, Meyer, Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy, (2) inspection of the off-diagonal elements of the antiimage covariance…
Descriptors: Correlation, Data Analysis, Educational Finance, Educational Research
Morris, William; Gold, Ben K. – 1974
The Student Accountability Model (SAM) was developed by a consortium of 12 members, to provide a system of procedures for identifying and describing California community college occupational students and for obtaining information about them after they leave college. The two components of the model are the Student Accounting Component…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Dropout Research, Evaluation Methods
American Association of School Administrators, Washington, DC. – 1966
In this publication, designed to serve interested laymen as well as educators, various authors explore the viewpoints of the proponents and the opponents of the National Assessment Program. In their analysis of assessment and its related issues, these authors attempt to provide information that could serve as a basis for an objective consideration…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing, Curriculum Evaluation
Schochet, Peter Z. – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2005
This paper examines issues related to the statistical power of impact estimates for experimental evaluations of education programs. The focus is on "group-based" experimental designs, because many studies of education programs involve random assignment at the group level (for example, at the school or classroom level) rather than at the student…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation, Research Design
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1999
The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) is the largest sample survey of the characteristics and conditions of U.S. public and private schools and their teachers and principals. This booklet provides an overview of the aims of the SASS and the information it provides. In 1999, nearly 124,000 SASS questionnaires were mailed to collect information on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Characteristics
Collins, Mary A.; Brick, J. Michael; Nolin, Mary Jo; Vaden-Kiernan, Nancy; Gilmore, Susan; Chandler, Kathryn; Chapman, Chris – 1997
The 1996 National Household Education Survey (NHES:96) was a random digit dial telephone survey of households that was developed by the National Center for Education Statistics and conducted by Westat, Inc. The NHES:96 included two topical survey components, "Parent and Family Involvement in Education," (PFI) which collected data about…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitudes, Children, Citizen Participation
Brick, J. Michael; Wernimont, Jacque; Montes, Maida – 1996
The National Household Education Survey (NHES) is a data collection system of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) designed to address a wide range of education-related issues. It is a telephone survey of the noninstitutionalized civilian population. In 1995, the NHES included a survey of adult education (AE). This report examines…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Error of Measurement
Research Triangle Inst., Durham, NC. – 1996
This document provides the description, summary, and evaluation of methodological procedures and results for the field test of the 1995-96 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:96). Chapter 1 describes the background, purposes, and scheduled procedures of the NPSAS:96 and the unique purposes of the field test. The NPSAS is a…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Finance, Field Tests, National Surveys
Ramseier, Erich – 1998
This paper shows how the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) can be carried out in a country with a very complicated upper-secondary educational system. The difficulties are not linked to the measurement of achievement, since the international project provides a common achievement scale. The challenge lies in the design of…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Motika, Robert T.; Chason, Walter M. – 1995
Test data from 200 examinees from the Spanish Teacher Certification Examination and 75 examinees from the French Teacher Certification Examination were used in a study of scale drift in sequentially equated test forms. Using sampling with replacement, 1,000 samples of 100 examinees each for Spanish and 1,000 samples of 50 each for French were…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Equated Scores, Estimation (Mathematics), French
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
Gruber, Kerry J.; Rohr, Carol L.; Fondelier, Sharon E. – 1994
This volume documents the data collection of the 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). People wishing to determine whether their research needs can be served by SASS data will find a description of the survey's contents and objectives in the Overview. This volume contains the following chapters: (1) "Overview"; (2) "Changes in…
Descriptors: Coding, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, National Surveys
Kalton, Graham; Winglee, Marianne; Krawchuk, Sheila; Levine, Daniel – 2000
A 1994 report, "Quality Profile for SASS, Aspects of the Quality of Data in the Schools and Staffing Surveys (SASS)," presented and summarized the available information about the quality of the data from the five surveys that made up the SASS in its first two rounds of data collection (1987-1988 and 1990-1991). This report updates the…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Error of Measurement
Arenson, Ethan A. – 1999
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) measures the educational achievement of nationally representative samples of students in grades 4, 8, and 12. Local educational agencies tend to view the NAEP as a benchmark to which the educational achievement of their students can be compared. In particular, state departments of education…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Grade 4, Grade 8
Jones, Calvin C.; Spencer, Bruce D. – Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1986
The first High School and Beyond follow-up survey, conducted in 1982, included sub-samples of 29,737 sophomore cohort and 11,995 senior cohort representatives from the base year survey samples. During the fall of 1982, nearly 18,500 of the sophomore cohort members selected for the first follow-up survey were subsampled for the High School and…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, High School Students, Student Surveys, Research Design
