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Montana Office of Public Instruction, 2013
The Montana Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) is administered by the Montana Office of Public Instruction every two years to students in grades 7 through 12. The purpose of the survey is to help monitor the prevalence of behaviors that not only influence youth health, but also put youth at risk for the most significant health and social problems…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Adolescents, High School Students, Suicide
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O'Brien, Mark – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2011
The appropriateness of using statistical data to inform the design of any given service development or initiative often depends upon judgements regarding scale. Large-scale data sets, perhaps national in scope, whilst potentially important in informing the design, implementation and roll-out of experimental initiatives, will often remain unused…
Descriptors: Intervention, Research Methodology, Statistical Data, Case Studies
Cahalan, Margaret; Perna, Laura – Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, 2015
The U.S. has a core constitutional and founding commitment to equality of opportunity for all citizens. Whether viewed as an end in itself or a means to fostering increased national achievement and competitiveness, the 21st century United States conversation about equity reflects a national consensus about the many benefits of and necessity for…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Equal Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2015
This publication provides a summary of data relating to students, programs, training providers, and funding in Australia's government-funded vocational education and training (VET) system (broadly defined as all activity delivered by government providers and government-funded activity delivered by community education and other registered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, School Statistics, Community Education
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Geverdt, Douglas E. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE) program develops geographic data to help policymakers, program administrators, and the public understand relationships between educational institutions and the communities they serve. One of the commonly used geographic data items is the NCES…
Descriptors: Demography, Geographic Distribution, Classification, Geographic Location
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Gray, Lucinda; Lewis, Laurie – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
This report is based on the 2016-17 survey "Career and Technical Education Programs in Public School Districts" and provides nationally representative data on career and technical education (CTE) programs. The survey defines a CTE program as a sequence of courses at the high school level that provides students with the academic and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Public Schools, School Districts, Sequential Approach
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Echon, Roger M. – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2014
Purpose/Objectives: The purpose of this paper is to provide baseline data and characteristics of food served and consumed prior to the recently mandated nutrition standards as authorized by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA). Methods: Over 600,000 school lunch menus with associated food production records from 61 elementary schools…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Food Service, Food Standards, Statistical Analysis
Chisholm, Alex – Graduate Management Admission Council, 2014
This report summarizes five-year global GMAT testing trends and includes: (1) GMAT exams taken by citizenship; (2) GMAT exams taken by gender; (3) Mean age of GMAT examinees; (4) Mean GMAT Total score; and (5) GMAT score-sending breakdowns by program type (MBA, non-MBA master's, and doctoral/other), TY2014. This data brief can help build candidate…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Testing Programs, Profiles, Trend Analysis
Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute, UNCF, 2014
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) represent a small percentage of all institutions in the U.S. but educate a large portion of all black and Latino students, many of whom are low-income and first-generation college attendees. Given the population growth of these students overall, both HSIs…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, African American Students, Hispanic American Students, College Students
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Weiner, Mary T.; Day, Stefanie J.; Galvan, Dennis – American Annals of the Deaf, 2013
Student perspectives reflect school climate. The study examined perspectives among deaf and hard of hearing students in residential and large day schools regarding bullying, and compared these perspectives with those of a national database of hearing students. The participants were 812 deaf and hard of hearing students in 11 U.S. schools. Data…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Bullying, Educational Environment
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Lindemann, Dana F.; Harbke, Colin R. – Health Education Journal, 2013
Objective: To evaluate whether or not written condom use instructions successfully inform correct condom use skills. Design: Between-subjects, two-group design. Setting: Public university located in rural Midwestern region of the United States. Method: Participants were randomly assigned to either a control condition (read physical exercise…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Comparative Analysis, Statistical Data, Contraception
Canadian Association of University Teachers, 2015
The "Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) Almanac of Post-Secondary Education in Canada" is a source for the most current statistical information available on post-secondary education in Canada. The Almanac provides statistics on the following: (1) university and college finances; (2) academic staff salaries and gender; (3)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Teacher Associations, Statistical Data
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Mezza, Alvaro; Sommer, Kamila – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2016
The recent significant increase in student loan delinquencies has generated interest in understanding the key factors predicting the non-performance of these loans. However, despite the large size of the student loan market, existing analyses have been limited by lack of data. This paper studies predictors of student loan delinquencies using a…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Debt (Financial), Loan Default, Loan Repayment
Xu, Di; Jaggars, Shanna Smith; Fletcher, Jeffrey – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2016
Using detailed administrative data from Virginia, this paper examines how and why the community college pathway to a baccalaureate influences students' degree attainment and short-term labor market performance. We find that the community college pathway sharply reduces the likelihood of earning a bachelor's degree but does not have a significant…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Bachelors Degrees
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Suryadarma, Daniel – Education Economics, 2015
This paper uses a rich longitudinal dataset to measure the evolution of the gender differences in numeracy among school-age children in Indonesia. Girls outperformed boys by 0.08 standard deviations when the sample was around 11 years old. Seven years later, the gap has widened to 0.19 standard deviations, equivalent to around 18 months of…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Evidence, Gender Differences, Numeracy
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