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The Problem of Excluded Baseline Students in a School-Based Longitudinal Study: Correcting National Dropout Estimates and Accommodating Eligibility Change over Time.

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Ingels, Steven J. – 1991

Some students are excluded from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) because of an inability, whether due to physical, mental, or linguistic barriers, to participate in studies requiring questionnaire or cognitive test completion. The implications of this exclusion for sample representativeness, national estimation, and…

Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Data Collection, Disqualification, Eligibility

Exclusion of Students with Barriers to Participation in NELS:88--Baseline Excluded Students Two and Four Years Later.

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Ingels, Steven J.; Scott, Leslie A. – 1993

Sample undercoverage issues in the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) are addressed. The main focus is the exclusion of certain categories of student in the base year, 1988, and in in-school follow-up rounds. A subsidiary focus is the question of how adequately transfer students were captured within the sampling procedures of…

Descriptors: Attendance, Data Collection, Eligibility, Followup Studies