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National Assessment Analysis Procedures.

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Searls, Donald T., Ed. – 1983

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the analysis of data collected by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). In simplest terms, the analysis can be characterized as establishing baseline estimates of the percentages of young Americans possessing certain skills, knowledge, understandings, and attitudes and…

Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases, Educational Assessment

Measures of School Integration: Comparing Coleman's Index to Measures of Species Diversity.

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Mercil, Steven Bray; Williams, John Delane – 1984

This study used species diversity indices developed in ecology as a measure of socioethnic diversity, and compared them to Coleman's Index of Segregation. The twelve indices were Simpson's Concentration Index ("ell"), Simpson's Index of Diversity, Hurlbert's Probability of Interspecific Encounter (PIE), Simpson's Probability of…

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematical Formulas