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Download full textOymak, Ceylan – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
As they think about their future, high school students can face a wide range of education and career choices. How do they choose? Who helps young people make their educational and career choices? In particular, to what extent do schools help students with these decisions? Given the importance of education and career decisions for life success,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Career Choice, Influences
Sparks, Dinah; Malkus, Nat – National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
This Statistics in Brief explores teacher autonomy in the classroom during the 2003-04, 2007-08, and 2011-12 school years. Using data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), the Statistics in Brief examines a construct of teacher autonomy based on teachers' responses to six questions regarding…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Professional Autonomy, Teacher Attitudes, National Surveys
Taie, Soheyla; Goldring, Rebecca – National Center for Education Statistics, 2017
The 2015-16 National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS) is a nationally representative sample survey of public K-12 schools, principals, and teachers in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. This report presents selected findings from the Public School Teacher Data File of NTPS. NTPS is a redesign of the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS).…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, National Surveys
Direct linkJackson, C. Kirabo – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2013
Unlike in elementary school, high-school teacher effects may be confounded with both selection to tracks and unobserved track-level treatments. I document sizable confounding track effects, and show that traditional tests for the existence of teacher effects are likely biased. After accounting for these biases, high-school algebra and English…
Descriptors: Teacher Influence, Value Added Models, Mathematics Instruction, Algebra
Peer reviewedStrauss, Robert P.; Sawyer, Elizabeth A. – Economics of Education Review, 1986
Using logarithmic and statistical data, this study analyzes teacher quality as a determinant of student performance on standardized tests. The most startling finding: a 1 percent increase in teacher competency, as measured by standardiazed test scores, is accompanied by a 5 percent decline in student failure rate on high school competency…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competence, Elementary Secondary Education, Performance
Fullarton, Sue – 2002
The engagement of young Australians with school and individual and school-level influences on student engagement (defined as participation in extracurricular activities) were examined by analyzing data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth. Being female, being from a higher socioeconomic background, and having professional parents were…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Persistence, Definitions, Education Work Relationship
