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Alabama State Commission on Higher Education, Montgomery. – 1991
This document provides data and reference information on Alabama's public institutions of higher education as well as private universities and colleges. It is composed entirely of statistical tables, charts, and graphs that reveal the results from comparative analyses and trend data in the following areas: (1) enrollment for the 1990-91 academic…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Faculty, College Freshmen, Colleges
Wagner, Ursula – 1992
This report describes findings of a study concerned with identifying environments of support to increase the participation and success of African Americans, American Indians, Hispanics, and U.S.-born Asian Americans in doctoral programs. The project found that supportive environments include: (1) aggressive and targeted recruitment efforts; (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, American Indians, Asian Americans, Black Students
Arizona State Dept. of Education, Phoenix. – 1987
April 1987 marked the seventh year of the statewide testing program in reading, language, and mathematics mandated by the Arizona State legislature. The Arizona testing program used nationally-standardized norm-referenced achievement tests. The Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) were administered to students in grades 1 through 8, the Stanford…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade Equivalent Scores
Bennett, Claudette E. – Current Population Reports, 1993
This report presents a statistical portrait of the demographic, social, and economic characteristics of the black population in the United States that is based primarily on the March 1992 Supplement to the Current Population Survey. Topics covered include: population growth; marital status; family type and distribution; the living arrangements of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Achievement, Black Employment, Black Family
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1987
The 1986-1987 annual report of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) is presented. In addition to statements from the SREB chairman and president, the report contains a program sampler in which progress in the following areas is addressed: improving the quality of teachers, establishing standards and assessments to improve quality in higher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Annual Reports, College Preparation
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1984
The Parent Survey of High School and Beyond is a study of the parents of 1980 high school seniors and sophomores in the United States conducted in 1980 as part of a national study of these cohorts of students which was intended to follow them through their early adulthood. The revised machine-readable data file (MRDF) Parent Analysis File (PAF)…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, Databases, Educational Attainment
Current Population Reports, 1988
This report presents social and economic characteristics of the population below the poverty level in 1986 based on the March 1987 Current Population Survey. Among the highlights are the following: (1) the number of persons below the poverty level was 32.4 million; (2) the poverty rate was 13.6 percent; (3) Whites represented 69 percent of the…
Descriptors: Age, Blacks, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Attainment
Smith, John D. – 1982
The purpose, audience, methodology, and statistics of classroom utilization reports used at the University of Colorado, Boulder, are examined with a view toward an evolving report on a schedule of classes. Utilization reports from the past decade are examined in terms of information attributes discussed by Kleijnen (1980). A computer-generated…
Descriptors: Campus Planning, Classes (Groups of Students), College Administration, College Buildings
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, DC. – 1977
The national statistics reported here were compiled from the responses of 7,300 school systems to the Elementary-Secondary Staff Information Survey, number EEO-5. (This survey is conducted to fulfill the annual reporting responsibility of public elementary and secondary school systems required by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972--Title…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Demography, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Patterns
South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, Columbia. – 1978
The activities of the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education for fiscal year 1977 are outlined. The areas reported on are: (1) federally funded programs; (2) activities of the South Carolina Postsecondary Education Planning Commission; (3) new programs approved; (4) review of graduate programs; (5) activities in medical and health…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Annual Reports, Budgeting, Degrees (Academic)
Department of Commerce, Washington, DC. – 1977
The report contains a comprehensive graphic collection of statistical data selected and organized to describe current social conditions and trends in the United States. Eleven chapters examine major social areas: population; the family; housing; social security and welfare; health and nutrition; public safety; education and training; work; income,…
Descriptors: Crime, Education, Educational Trends, Employment Patterns
Filby, Nikola N.; Dishaw, Marilyn – 1975
Achievement tests that are maximally sensitive to effective instruction in reading and mathematics for grades 2 and 5 were developed and refined. Important considerations regarding the tests' validity were: its coverage of instructional content (opportunity to learn), and its reactivity to instruction. Student ability must be minimally related to…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests
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Hummel, Roger G. – 1976
Data on professional and support personnel are presented, arranged according to the variables of institution type, occupational activity, employment status, and sex. Variables for data on faculty are institution type, academic area, sex, and employment status (full-time, part-time, and full-time equivalent). Salary and fringe benefits data are…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Church Related Colleges, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Government Studies & Systems, Philadelphia, PA. – 1980
This supplement to "Postsecondary Student Terminology," a National Center for Education Statistics handbook, examines postsecondary education policy issues relevant to information needs about students, procedures used in identifying information items needed to statistically evaluate the issues, and an illustrative database for postsecondary…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Career Choice, Databases, Education Work Relationship
Kentucky Council on Public Higher Education, Frankfort. – 1977
The geographic origin of students enrolled in Kentucky colleges and universities for the Fall of 1977 are detailed in charts, tables, and maps compiled by the Kentucky Council on Higher Education. The data were gathered from colleges and universities accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools or by the American Association of…
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Demography
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