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Download full textCenter on Standards and Assessments Implementation, 2018
The recommendations in this brief create a framework for using data effectively to make instructional decisions. The availability of student-level data for educators has pushed forward the movement to strengthen the role of data to guide instruction and improve student learning. While improvements in technology and assessments, as well as recent…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Information Utilization, Data Collection, Data Analysis
Hunt, E. Stephen – 1994
The Comparative Database System (CDS) provides a means for coding and using data on U.S. and international postsecondary educational activity and behavior. CDS permits education-data users to obtain accurate and reliable comparative data on postsecondary education questions. This document contains a discussion of the development of CDS, a detailed…
Descriptors: Coding, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Data Analysis
Peer reviewedPalais, Elliot – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1987
Describes a methodology which analyzes courses described in university catalogs in order to produce a database used in the compilation of a collection development policy statement. Each step of the analysis is described, and tables are used to track sample data through the entire process. (CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Curriculum, Course Descriptions, Data Analysis
Peer reviewedHancock-Beaulieu, Micheline; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1991
Describes an investigation of tools, techniques, and methods for the evaluation of interactive library catalogs, with emphasis on diagnostic methods and on use of the catalog in the wider context of user information-seeking behavior. A front-end system (Olive) developed to test various enhancements of traditional transaction lodging as a…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods
Jackson, Shirley A. – 1991
It is noted that the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and libraries have a mutual mission: the collection and dissemination of information in formats that are useful to the information needs of the public. This report discusses the NCES' mission statement in these terms and describes its broad-based data gathering program, which…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Data Collection, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education
McClure, Charles R.; And Others – Electronic Networking: Research, Applications and Policy, 1992
Summarizes a study that identified and described federal information inventory/locator systems and resulted in the Federal Locator Database--an electronic database describing 250 federal databases. Recommends that the U.S. Office of Management and Budget develop policy frameworks for the design of a governmentwide locator system accessible over…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Administration, Agencies, Classification
Rogers, Alfred M.; And Others – 1992
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is an ongoing, congressionally mandated national survey of the knowledge, skills, and understanding of young Americans in major subjects usually taught in school. This document is a guide to the files of the first NAEP Trial State Assessment (1990). The Trial State Assessment collected…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases, Educational Testing
Caldwell, Nancy; And Others – 1993
The 1990 High School Transcript Study provides information regarding current course offerings and students' course-taking patterns in the nation's secondary schools. Since similar studies were conducted of the course-taking patterns of 1987 and 1982 graduates, changes can be studied. Transcripts were collected from 21,589 students who graduated…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Course Selection (Students), Data Collection, Databases
Direct linkRiley, Sheila – Technology & Learning, 2006
In this article, John Forbes, administrative analyst for the 80,000-student Fresno Unified School District in Fresno, and Terrence Young, chief information officer for the 70,000-student Guilford Country Schools in Greensboro, North Carolina, share their strategies for getting staff on board with Web-based data systems. These are the strategies:…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Internet, Data, Data Analysis
Vanneman, Alan – Focus on NAEP, 1997
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has been collecting data on student achievement since 1969. It currently maintains three different assessments: long-term trends, cross-sectional national, and cross-sectional state-by-state data. Although the data are available to researchers outside the Federal Government, limited use has…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education
Gruber, Kerry J.; And Others – 1996
The volumes in this User Manual document the data collection of the 1993-94 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). Researchers who are ready to access the data file may go directly to the codebooks for each survey (Volumes II and III for the Restricted-Use and Public-Use versions respectively). This manual focuses on survey documentation, describing…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education, Estimation (Mathematics)
Roey, Stephen; Caldwell, Nancy; Rust, Keith; Blumstein, Eyal; Krenzke, Tom; Legum, Stan; Kuhn, Judy; Waksberg, Mark; Haynes, Jacqueline – 2001
The 1998 High School Transcript Study provides the U.S. Department of Education and other educational policymakers with information regarding current course offerings and students' course-taking patterns in U.S. secondary schools. Similar studies were conducted in 1982, 1987, 1990, and 1994. This guide documents the procedures used to collect and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Records, Core Curriculum, Course Selection (Students)
Peterson, Norman G.; Mumford, Michael D.; Borman, Walter C.; Jeanneret, P. Richard; Fleishman, Edwin A.; Levin, Kerry Y. – 1997
This document contains the three volumes of the technical report for development of the prototype of the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), which is intended to replace the "Dictionary of Occupational Titles.""General Introduction" (Norman G. Peterson) presents an overview of O*NET's purpose, content, and structure.…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Education, Career Exploration, Career Information Systems
