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Sedey, John M. – 1990
A study examined the educational and employment activities of members of Minnesota's high school class of 1988. Data regarding 15,232 students (14,151 graduates, 503 dropouts, and 578 students school leavers not classified as dropouts) were collected from 87 high schools participating in the Minnesota Secondary School Follow-up System and from 966…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Curriculum, Educational Trends
Sedey, John M. – 1991
A study examined the educational and employment activities of members of Minnesota's high school class of 1989. Data regarding 14,636 students (14,024 graduates, 324 dropouts, and 288 students school leavers not classified as dropouts) were collected from 97 high schools participating in the Minnesota Secondary School Follow-up System and from 853…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Curriculum, Educational Trends
Sedey, John M. – 1992
A study examined the educational and employment activities of members of Minnesota's high school class of 1990. Data regarding 12,458 students (11,814 graduates, 356 dropouts, and 288 students school leavers not classified as dropouts) were collected from 90 high schools participating in the Minnesota Secondary School Follow-up System and from 926…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Curriculum, Educational Trends
Sedey, John M. – 1993
A study examined the educational and employment activities of members of Minnesota's high school class of 1991. Data regarding 12,270 students (11,674 graduates, 218 dropouts, and 378 students school leavers not classified as dropouts) were collected from 107 high schools participating in the Minnesota Secondary School Follow-up System and from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Curriculum, Educational Trends
Owen, Eugene H., Comp. – 1991
This report summarizes data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which has been monitoring the scholastic achievement of America's 9-, 13-, and 17-year-olds since 1969. The 1990 NAEP trend data provide several ways of describing changes in student achievement in each curriculum area. For science, mathematics, and reading,…
Descriptors: Black Students, Demography, Educational History, Educational Trends
James, Dixie Howse – 1993
The ethnic diversity and gender represented and the age of the collection of middle level biography collections of one middle school library media center and one public library serving the same community were studied. Shelflists and computer printouts, as well as the books themselves, were used to provide information about the biography…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Biographies, Blacks
Thrash, Beverly M. – 1993
This purpose of this study was to determine which periodical index--InfoTrac or EBSCO Magazine Article Summaries--is the most appropriate for use by middle school students preparing required research projects. The study population consisted of randomly selected sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students (N=50) in a Cobb County (Georgia) middle…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis, Educational Resources, Indexes
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Federal Assistance. – 1993
This report summarizes recent activities provided in Ohio through Chapter 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Statistics for the 1991-92 school year and the summer that followed are presented, along with information on participation trends, instructional impact, expenditure and staffing patterns, parent involvement, and 5-year trends.…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Child Neglect, Compensatory Education, Costs
Tsapogas, John, Ed. – 1992
This report presents the data collected as part of the 1990 New Entrants Survey on the demographic, education, and employment characteristics of recent college graduates in science and engineering fields. A major objective of the survey was to develop national estimates and characteristics of the total population of scientists and engineers in the…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employment Statistics, Engineering Education, Engineers
Arnold, Carolyn L.; And Others – 1993
The 1987-88 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) and the 1988-89 Teacher Followup Survey contain data that can be used to examine issues related to the need for teachers, sources of teacher supply, teacher turnover, teacher attrition, and teacher shortages. This report describes patterns in the sources of supply and the demand for teachers in terms…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Patterns
Hermanson, Dean R. – 1993
A 1989 survey of two-year branch campuses of four-year institutions collected data on administrative structure, mission, and selected characteristics of 24 campuses. In spring 1993, a study was conducted to re-validate the 1989 survey, gathering data on more campuses and updating the list of branch campuses. Forty-nine state systems of higher…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Educational Administration
D'Elia, George – 1993
National samples of the general public (n=1,001) and community opinion leaders (n=300) were asked to evaluate the importance to their communities of 10 different roles of the public library. Respondents evaluated each role in terms of its importance to their communities. Survey results indicate that the public library's roles to support the…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitudes, Blacks, Children
Summers, Jerry; Reck, Larry – 1998
This study explored asynchronous delivery modalities in a distance education program and investigated a paradigm for enhancing interactivity in distance education using CD-ROM, interactive video, and e-mail. The purposes of the investigation were to: (1) create an asynchronous distance learning environment based in these technologies; (2) build…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Software Development
Seppanen, Loretta – 1998
This paper discusses policy issues faced by two-year colleges in the state of Washington during the first year of implementation of performance funding. Four key policy questions were reviewed: (1) the reward versus entitlement paradigm shift, which forces educators to alter expectations about "entitlement" to higher education funding…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Competency Based Education, Educational Finance, Evaluation Criteria
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability/Testing. – 1998
This document provides information on student performance at the state, regional, and school system levels on end-of-grade multiple choice tests for grades 3 through 8 in reading and mathematics and the end-of-course multiple choice tests administered in high school subjects in 1996-97 as part of the North Carolina Testing Program. The figures and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Algebra, Biology, Civics
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