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Download full textBeaton, Albert E.; And Others – 1988
This report supplies details of the design and data analysis of the 1986 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to allow the reader to judge the utility of the design, data quality, reasonableness of assumptions, appropriateness of data analyses, and generalizability of inferences made from the data. After an introduction by A. E.…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Processing, Databases, Field Tests
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1993
Five diskettes present EDsearch (Education Statistics on Disk) (formerly Digest-on-Disk), a computerized search and retrieval system designed to provide an easy way to locate and display specific information contained in the wealth of statistical tables produced by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). This version of the program…
Descriptors: Charts, Computer Software, Databases, Educational Trends
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1997
The five papers from this volume, which were presented at the 1997 American Statistical Association meeting, are of particular interest to users of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) survey data. They deal with the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), a periodic survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for the NCES. The SASS…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Estimation (Mathematics), Institutional Characteristics, Interviews
Silverman, Leslie J., Ed.; Taeuber, Richard C., Ed. – 1985
This document includes invited papers written for the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Elementary/Secondary Education Data Redesign Project. Early in 1985, NCES began a thorough review of its data collection program. The purpose of the review was to address questions of the suitability, scope, reliability, and timeliness of…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Assessment, Educational Needs, Educational Policy
National Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1995
This almanac contains seven articles on current issues in higher education and a report on current faculty salaries. Part 1 includes the following articles: (1) "Faculty Salaries, 1993-94" (John B. Lee), which tracks national and state salary trends; (2) "Workload and Productivity: Case Studies" (Henry L. Allen), which presents…
Descriptors: Administrators, Budgets, Collective Bargaining, College Administration
Dillon, Ken, Ed. – 1995
The title report of this publication contains the results of a 1993 study devised to ascertain the market share and geographic distribution of automated systems in Australian school libraries. Thirty-three surveys were distributed to vendors of automated systems known to have school library installations or to have recently developed a product for…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Elementary Secondary Education, Fiction
Dillon, Ken, Ed. – 1997
This publication about school library automation in Australia contains 18 chapters divided into seven sections. The chapters in the first section presents survey results: "School Library Automation in Australia: Results of the First, Second and Third National Surveys" (Ken Dillon); and "School Library Automation in New Zealand:…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Utilities, Case Studies, Cataloging, Elementary Secondary Education
