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Milam, John – Association for Institutional Research, 1999
This paper examines 17 national datasets that are available for policy studies and research about college faculty. The datasets include 11 containing faculty information, two about student enrollment, two about degrees awarded, and two about institutional activity. Each of the following datasets is individually described: (1) National Science…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases
Ingels, Steven J.; And Others – 1990
This manual is designed to familiarize data users with the procedures followed for data collection and processing of the base-year school component of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88). A corollary objective is to provide the necessary documentation for use of the data files. The manual provides a wide range of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Processing, Databases
Lashway, Larry – Research Roundup, 2002
This "Research Roundup" focuses on how schools can benefit when educational leaders use data to challenge their intuition and assumptions in their decision-making. In "Building an Automated Student Record System: A Step-by-Step Guide for Local and State Education Agencies," Barbara S. Clements provides administrators with a quick but comprehensive…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Decision Making, Educational Administration
Halstead, Kent – 1998
This report presents findings on the role of tuition in financing higher education and as payment by students and parents. The content is organized into 11 chapters grouped into six parts. Part 1 is an enrollment profile of students who opt to attend college. Topics covered include starting conditions, such as student academic skills, family…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Demography, Enrollment Trends, Higher Education
Crow, Tracy, Ed. – ENC Focus, 1996
Each publication in the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC) Focus series presents a small selection of the Clearinghouse collection focused on a topic of particular interest to mathematics and science teachers. In addition to meeting general requirements for inclusion in the ENC collection, curriculum materials in the Focus series are:…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Instruction
Pride, Cletis G.; Fowler, Joseph S. – 1990
An overview of market research is provided, with advice about conducting market research for the educator. Market research is any kind of research that gives information about the current state of the market and offers guidance in improving one's position in that market. The relative advantages of conducting market research by oneself or by hiring…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Research, Marketing

Scheirer, Mary Ann – New Directions for Evaluation, 1996
This eight chapters of this special issue introduce the use of a template to specify program components as a new tool for program evaluation. The template articulates the components needed for program delivery and provides a systematic method for assessing program implementation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation

Bausell, R. Barker, Ed. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1995
The six articles of this issue discuss the place of meta-analysis in the health professions and present two state-of-the-art meta-analyses using a variety of innovative methodologies, statistics, and secondary analytic procedures. A survey conducted for this issue and its sequel explores interventions to facilitate meta-analysis. (SLD)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Health
Inter-Change, 1980
The document contains two components--a population reference newsletter focusing on census-related information and a module to help high school and college students understand census objectives, procedures, and uses. The newsletter presents general background on the census, offers annotations of census materials from the Population Reference…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Data Analysis, Educational Objectives, Higher Education
Gill, Judith I.; And Others – Research Dialogues, 1992
This publication reviews and analyzes the research on issues affecting faculty supply and demand in higher education and looks at how recent research can assess future trends. An introduction describes many researchers' prediction that three trends will soon create a faculty shortage: (1) increasing faculty retirements based on extensive hiring…
Descriptors: Aging in Academia, College Faculty, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Johnson, James H. – 1997
With accurate information, educators are better able to make effective decisions. Besides being used to assess student performance, a complete program of data collection and use can also show educators how management skills, individual learning styles, and other elements affect student achievement. This digest provides an overview of how…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Halstead, Kent – 1998
This report presents comparative data governing the financing of public higher education in each state and the District of Columbia. The model used in data analysis involves the following nine data elements: population, number of high school graduates, public full-time equivalent enrollment, taxable resources, tax revenue collected, state and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Educational Finance, Enrollment

Bureau of the Census (DOC), Suitland, MD. Population Div. – 1979
A study was conducted to collect statistical data (age, sex, race, years of school completed, occupation, field of training, and family income levels) on U.S. students who were participating in postsecondary vocational programs in October 1976 or who had participated in such programs during the previous year. Vocational, business, technical, or…
Descriptors: Age, Career Choice, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis
Spinetta, Katrin, Ed. – Parameters, 1997
These two newsletters for 1997 highlight the following topics and issues. The July issue reports that community and technical colleges are moving to performance funding as a result of the 1997 Washington state legislature including a performance evaluation proviso for all public higher education institutions. Another article is featured on data…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Distance Education
Mansuy, Michele – Training & Employment, 1996
The seventh national plan (1976-80) in France provided for development of indicators describing initial labor market entry and the place of young people in recruitments. The National School-to-Work Transition Observatory was created in response to the desire to have a permanent system of information on youth labor market entry.…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Education Work Relationship, Employment Patterns