This volume of the National Longitudinal Transition Study of Special Education Students (NLTS) offers statistical data relating to 588 students with speech impairments (ages 13-21). The study design involved a survey of parents/guardians, examination of school records, and a survey of school programs. The 43 tables describe: youths' individual and…

This volume of the National Longitudinal Transition Study of Special Education Students (NLTS) offers statistical data relating to 1,204 students with mental retardation (ages 13-21). The study design involved a survey of parents/guardians, examination of school records, and a survey of school programs. The 43 tables describe: youths' individual…

This volume of the National Longitudinal Transition Study of Special Education Students (NLTS) offers statistical data relating to 875 students with visual impairments (ages 13-21). The study design involved a survey of parents/guardians, examination of school records, and a survey of school programs. The 43 tables describe: youths' individual and…

This volume of the National Longitudinal Transition Study of Special Education Students (NLTS) offers statistical data relating to 1,688 students with hearing impairments (ages 13-21). The study design involved a survey of parents/guardians, examination of school records, and a survey of school programs. The 43 tables describe: youths' individual…

This volume of the National Longitudinal Transition Study of Special Education Students (NLTS) offers statistical data relating to 764 students with orthopedic impairments (ages 13-21). The study design involved a survey of parents/guardians, examination of school records, and a survey of school programs. The 43 tables describe: youths' individual…

This volume of the National Longitudinal Transition Study of Special Education Students (NLTS) offers statistical data relating to 744 students (ages 13-21) with concomitant impairments, the combination of which causes such severe educational problems that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments…

The working of the educational system in a welfare state was examined in a longitudinal study of a cohort (initially 1,029) of students followed from age 7 to age 23 years. An initial sample included 329 males and 342 females, of whom 352 had working class careers and 319 had middle class careers. Relationships among social origin, gender, and…

As part of the American College Testing (ACT) High School Profile Service, national norms are provided to reflect the characteristics of students who took the ACT Assessment during their junior or senior years and graduated from high school in 1990. Four-year averages for ACT-tested graduates are illustrated. The tables of norms include: (1) mean…

This document reports on the third year of the Bridenthal Internship Teacher Project (BIT), initiated in 1984 to recruit, train, and retain high ability high school seniors into teaching. Fourteen female and three male seniors were selected for the project. These interns are awarded scholarship support that covers most of their college tuition for…

Data from the Malmo (Sweden) longitudinal study were examined for the effects of continuing adult educational attainment and formal schooling on subsequent socioeconomic achievement over the life span of the individual worker. The results suggest that acquired level of formal schooling directly influences occupational success and earnings in the…

After a brief review of recent research concerning school effectiveness, this paper proposes an approach to operationalizing school effectiveness that is based on the achievement of students in a school over a period of time. This three-level model does not follow a single cohort of students as they progress through school. Rather, it uses the…

Analysis of data from the High School and Beyond (HS&B) longitudinal survey suggests that young Asian American females reach higher levels of educational attainment more quickly than young Asian American males and that these differences are most noteworthy among immigrants or the children of immigrants, Chinese Americans, and Filipino…

This paper presents annual findings of follow-up work with mentally retarded school completers begun in 1987. Information was gathered on each youth's current living and work situations, as well as job and training involvement throughout the year. Findings indicated widespread stability in the group, but little progress toward achieving real work…

This investigation--the first Dutch longitudinal research project on reading and spelling spanning the whole 6-year period of primary education--examined (1) whether it is possible to identify certain aspects of literacy--namely decoding skills, reading comprehension, and spelling skills--within verbal intelligence as latent variables, and…

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is compared to the two studies of the National Educational Longitudinal Studies (NELS) Program--the National Longitudinal Study of the Class of 1972 (resurveyed in 1973, 1974, 1976, and 1979) and the 1980 High School and Beyond study (partially resurveyed and retested in 1982). The third phase…