NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 4 results Save | Export
Causey, Beverly D.; Bailey, Leroy – 1999
The Private School Universe Survey (PSS) is a mail survey conducted by the Bureau of the Census under the sponsorship of the National Center for Education Statistics. The survey is designed to provide data relating to all private schools in the United States, but the private schools' list frame remains incomplete despite the best efforts to…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Estimation (Mathematics), Mail Surveys
Greene, Patricia; Myers, Sharon; Veldman, Cynthia; Pedlow, Stephen – 1999
The Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B) tracks the experiences of a cohort of college graduates who received their baccalaureate degrees during the 1992-93 academic year and who were first interviewed as part of the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study. The experiences of this group in the areas of academic enrollment, degree…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Graduates, Data Collection, Employment Patterns
Mosquin, Paul; Chromy, James – American Institutes for Research, 2004
This paper addresses statistical aspects of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act (Bush, 2001), with the following goals: to further the discussion on how gaps in performance might be defined and to offer candidate gap estimators, to evaluate candidate gap estimators with respect to three separate student performance measures, to provide…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Indicators, Federal Programs, Achievement Gap
Kaufman, Steven; Huang, Hertz – 1993
The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) represents the union of three surveys by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the Teacher Demand and Shortage Survey, the School and School Administrator Surveys, and the Teacher Survey. The SASS measures critical aspects of teaching supply and demand, the composition of the teacher and…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Data Collection, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education