The process of collecting student background information from parents using nationally agreed definitions of student background characteristics began in 2005. The original edition of this manual, titled "Data Implementation Manual for Enrolments for the 2005 and 2006 School Years," was prepared to assist schools and systems in modifying…

The Individual Scaling with Individual Subjects (ISIS) procedure appears to be a viable implementation of an incomplete design for collecting real as well as simulated data. Applied to a multidimensional set of data, it reduced the number of judgments required by more than half and yet gave the same number of dimensions. (Author/RC)

The Atlanta school system's optical mark reader handles a wide range of student-related tasks. (Author)

Describes a project to disseminate information about effective educational programs and practices to districts, schools, and interested educators in the state. (RC)

The aim of this paper is to show how the noise reduction by signal accumulation can be accomplished with a data acquisition system. This topic can be used for student projects. In many cases, the noise reduction is an unavoidable part of experimentation. Several techniques are known for this purpose, and among them the signal accumulation is the…

Subjects were assigned the task of forming an impression of another person with information being gathered from two conflicting sources. (Editor)

This paper examines various estimates of the Samoan population in the United States and assesses their relation to 1980 census data. Because Samoans were enumerated for the first time as a separate group, because there are no national records of Samoan births and deaths, and because there are no data on migration to the United States or movement…

Two investigations examined whether incentives increase the number of survey returns from former students and whether ideographic characteristics, incentives, and multiple mail-outs influence the perceptions of respondents. Survey responses of 125 (Study 1) and 67 (Study 2) baccalaureate graduates in education were used. The survey included 43…

This section of the "Archiving Methodology" is concerned with the role of data collection contractors in the archiving process. Their role is discussed from three perspectives: (1) the nature of the relationship of the data collection contractor, the project officer, and the archivist; (2) the considerations contractors must make when…

This volume of "Archiving Methodology" is devoted to file-level documentation. File-level documentation refers to the description of the contents of a single data file or a group of identically structured files. It consists of three sections: (1) file background--information pertaining to the origin, purpose, and collection methodology…

Undertaken by a student from Rutger's University Graduate School of Library Service, this study is an analysis of the first 500 rejections received in response to his applications for professional library positions over a two year period. Job applications are categorized as solicited and unsolicited: these categories are further divided by type of…

The School Improvement Project (SIP) and Local School Development Project are two school-based constituency planning programs. The Documentation Unit is responsible for ongoing documentation and evaluation of them. The goals of the unit included holistic school assessment, development of school based needs assessment and evaluation activities, and…

The benefits accrued through the use of triangulation as both a design strategy and an analytic tool cannot be overstated. Triangulation allows for the clustering and organizing of disparate yet related data. Finding out what the data have in common and how the data are different allow the researcher to eliminate (or reduce) the number of…

A data based method for mainstreaming involving 120 elementary students (grades 1 through 5) enrolled in a resource room was utilized. Ss were monitored to find the percent of assignments they were completing in their regular classroom, and to determine the feasibility of using this data base to identify students who were not achieving, and to…

RECORDS WERE KEPT ON THE SUCCESS OF TECHNIQUES USED TO OBTAIN FOLLOWUP INFORMATION ON OCCUPATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL STATUS OF 12,615 INDIVIDUALS 2 YEARS AFTER BEING TESTED IN GRADE 12. THE STUDENTS COMPLETED AN ADDRESS SHEET DURING THEIR SENIOR YEAR GIVING THE ADDRESSES OF THREE PERSONS WHO WOULD BE LIKELY TO KNOW THEIR LOCATION 2 YEARS LATER.…