Two tables show the number of teachers and pupils per teacher aide in school districts in the eight geographical regions of the United States in the 1984-85 school year. The Far West has the lowest pupil-to-teacher aide ratio, and the Mideast the highest. (PGD)

This report provides an update to the technical analysis procedures documenting the 1996 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) as presented in "The NAEP 1996 Technical Report" (Allen, Carlson, and Zelenak, 1999). It describes how the 1999 long-term trend data were incorporated into the trend analyses. Since no national main…

Nearly 1.7 million Hispanic students were enrolled in the nation's 4,100 degree-granting colleges and universities in fall 2002. A big share of these students, 87 percent, are undergraduates (rather than graduate or first-professional students). In comparison, undergraduates make up 81 percent of all white college students. Among youth finishing…

This study investigated the relationship between the scales used for the NDSA assessments and the RIT scales used to report performance on Northwest Evaluation Association tests. The study estimated the changes in reading and mathematics RIT score equivalents for the NDSA performance levels in those subjects. Test records for more than 9,000…

This report on substance use is the first presenting State estimates from the 2000 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA). The report presents State estimates for 17 different measures related to substance use. Of these measures, 12 are based on an average for the combined years 1999 and 2000, while the remaining 5 only use the 2000 data.…

This report provides statistics on numbers of students in Ohio identified as gifted; examines the effect of a 1999 state law standardizing the identification of gifted students; identifies factors that influence the proportion of students that districts identify as gifted; compares the identification of gifted students in Ohio with other states;…

There have been major improvements in public education since the early 1980s, when the nation started focusing seriously on school reform, and informed citizens need to be aware of these positive trends. This booklet highlights important improvements in public education over the past 15-20 years, along with positive data about the state of public…

The Mississippi Library Commission, which acquires and publishes usage data from each of the 46 public library systems and two independent public libraries in the state, reports the data presented in this publication to the Federal State Cooperative System (FSCS) for Public Library Data. First, a 2-year summary (1997-1998) for public library…

This study highlights the percentage of all new 1998 University of Wisconsin (UW) freshmen who were Wisconsin residents (82 percent); the percentage who were women (56 percent); the percentage of students of color (8 percent); the percentage who were "conventional" admits (95 percent); the percentage who scored above the national…

This summary explains how a student's relative standing in a particular group, as measured by a percentile score, is the same regardless of whether that student's score is on the SAT scale established in 1941 or on the recentered SAT scale, established with a 1990 reference group, and introduced in 1995.

This report presents long-range projections of the number of degrees that will be earned at institutions of higher education in the United States and its outlying areas. Projections by level of degree are provided for total degrees and for certain selected fields of study for the years 1965, 1970, and 1975, as well as for the 5-year periods…

It is the intention of this paper to review the purpose, underlying assumptions, and calculation procedures and to arrive at a means of handling analysis of covariance when the classical assumptions are not met. (Author)

This study is designed to add to existing reliability information about the Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT) when used with first grade children only. Internal consistency and item-total correlations for each sub test are investigated. Test-retest reliability data are reported, and the coefficients obtained as measures of internal…

Considered the historic answers to the question of what determines relative wages and wage discrimination. (Author/RK)