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Oakeley, Cecilia; Yang, Hua – 1997
As the idea of including limited English proficient (LEP) students in large-scale assessments is becoming popular among researchers, the practical question of how to do so meaningfully so that the needs and performances of LEP students are recognized while their scores are interpreted and used correctly becomes more important. This paper presents…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods
Kids Count in Michigan, Lansing. – 1996
This Michigan Kids Count data book for 1996 describes the condition of children in each of Michigan's 83 counties. The first section of the report explores the status of the children in five areas of child well-being: (1) Economic Security; (2) Child Health; (3) Child Safety; (4) Teen Transition; and (5) Education. The discussion presents an…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Child Health, Children
Webster, Keith G. – 1995
The challenge in survey methodology is to conduct studies as effectively and efficiently as possible. The University of Newcastle upon Tyne (England) has taken advantage of information technology (IT) developments to improve the conduct of in-house surveys. A surveying mechanism tied to the library OPAC (online public access catalog), accessible…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Hawaii Kids Count, Honolulu. – 1996
This KIDS COUNT statistical report is the second to examine indicators of children's well-being in Hawaii. The bulk of the report is comprised of the indicator results and is divided into four major sections: (1) family composition and resources, including children in poverty, children in single parent families, births to single teens, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Health, Children, Dropout Rate
Hamilton, John M. – 1997
In 1990, a study was conducted to investigate the five-year transfer patterns of students who entered Gainesville College, a public two-year unit of the University System of Georgia, during the fall of 1990 as they matriculated to public baccalaureate-granting institutions within the state. A variety of student cohorts were followed from fall 1990…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Articulation (Education), Associate Degrees, Business Administration
Maryland State Higher Education Commission, Annapolis. – 1996
Each Maryland public campus submits annual minority achievement reports as part of the state-mandated accountability process. This is a report of the 1995 data. In 1995, Prince George's Community College had the largest number of African-American undergraduate students (7,623) followed by Morgan (5,337), Baltimore City Community College (4,877),…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Black Teachers, College Faculty
Bartel, Ann P.; Sicherman, Nachum – 1995
Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and several alternative data sets containing proxies for industries' rates of technological change (including the Jorgenson productivity growth series, National Bureau of Economic Research productivity data, and the Census of Manufacturers series on investments in computers, the Research and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Trends
North Dakota Univ., Grand Forks. North Dakota Kids Count. – 1994
While many children across North Dakota enjoy positive life circumstances which support their healthy growth and development, many other children do not. This Kids Count factbook contains data on indicators intended to highlight the condition of North Dakota children from prenatal through adolescent stages of development; these indicators include…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Births to Single Women, Child Abuse, Child Health
Hashway, Robert M.; Cain, Karen – 1992
This study examines whether the State of Louisiana showed good faith compliance with the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended. This audit examines the following areas in the State of Louisiana: (1) educational equity, equality, and adequacy; (2) equal ethnic and gender employment and educational opportunity;…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Budgeting, Charts, Comparative Analysis
Florida State Board of Community Colleges, Tallahassee. – 1992
Focussing on the period from 1989 to 1991, this articulation report provides information on students enrolled in Florida's State University System (SUS) who, prior to enrolling in their respective universities, attended one of Florida's 28 public community colleges. Following an overview of articulation in Florida, a series of 15 tables is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Cohen, Arthur M. – 1993
The community college mission includes such diverse goals as preparing students for job entry, teaching literacy, and satisfying students' personal interests. Measuring the colleges' transfer rates by no means tacitly elevates the transfer function above these other functions; it merely helps institutions estimate the effects of interventions on…
Descriptors: College Role, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Data Collection
Balfour, Linda F., Comp. – 1993
This abstract presents statistical data on higher education activities in North Carolina from simple counts of enrollment and degrees conferred to complex analyses of the flow of student transfers among institutions. Data for the abstract were assembled from information supplied by the colleges and universities for the 1992-93 academic year.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Housing, College Libraries, College Students
Vandegrift, Judith A.; And Others – 1994
A study examined statewide implementation of the Arizona Department of Education's vocational technological education (ADE/VTE) model and the feasibility of using Arizona's performance standards in evaluating processes/outcomes at model sites. Data were collected from a pilot study of 12 sites and survey of 128 Arizona local education authorities…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Needs, Educational Planning, Evaluation Methods
Office of Inspector General (ED), San Francisco, CA. Region IX. – 1994
This report of the San Francisco (California) Regional Office of the Inspector General concludes that the U.S. Department of Education should improve its present method of allocating special education funds among the states. It finds that the basis of these allocations, reported numbers of students receiving special education in each state, is…
Descriptors: Accountability, Categorical Aid, Data Collection, Demography
Smith, David Lawson – 1994
This report is fifth in a series of annual reports identifying students who drop out of Nevada schools during the course of a school year. Dropout data collection has been extended for 1992-93 to grades 7 and 8. Dropout rates are calculated in a fashion consistent with formulas used in earlier state studies, rather than through the method of the…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Educational Trends
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