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Vol 7, Issues 1 & 2, Topic: Data Products, Other Publications, and Training and Funding Opportunities
Data Products, Other Publications, and Training and Funding Opportunities
 
 
 
 

Data Products

Other Publications

Training and Funding Opportunities

 

Data Products


Data File: CCD School District Finance Survey: FY 1997 Final

The Common Core of Data (CCD) "School District Finance Survey (Form F-33)" provides finance data for all local education agencies (LEAs) that provide free public elementary and secondary education in the United States. The 1996–97 "School District Finance Survey" contains 15,679 records representing the public elementary and secondary education agencies in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

For each state or jurisdiction, the data file includes revenues by source, expenditures by function, indebtedness, assets, student membership counts, and identification variables.

The data can be downloaded from the NCES Electronic Catalog either as a SAS file or as a flat file. Documentation is provided in separate files.

For questions about this data product, contact Frank H. Johnson (frank.johnson@ed.gov).

To obtain this data product (NCES 2005-355), visit the NCES Electronic Catalog (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch).

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Data File: CCD School District Finance Survey: FY 2003 Preliminary

The Common Core of Data (CCD) "School District Finance Survey (Form F-33)" provides finance data for all local education agencies (LEAs) that provide free public elementary and secondary education in the United States. The 2002–03 "School District Finance Survey" contains 16,342 records representing public elementary and secondary education agencies in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

For each state or jurisdiction, the data file includes revenues, current operation expenditures, capital outlay expenditures, other expenditures by LEA, state payments on behalf of the LEA, debt, cash and investments held at the end of the fiscal year, fall membership as of October 2002, and special processing items.

The data can be downloaded from the NCES Electronic Catalog either as a SAS file or as a flat file. Documentation is provided in separate files.

For questions about this data product, contact Frank H. Johnson (frank.johnson@ed.gov).

To obtain this data product (NCES 2005-357), visit the NCES Electronic Catalog (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch).

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Data File: CCD National Public Education Financial Survey: FY 2003 Preliminary

The Common Core of Data (CCD) "National Public Education Financial Survey" (NPEFS) provides detailed state-level data on public elementary and secondary education finances. These data are based on information from state education agencies (SEAs) for fiscal year 2003 (school year 2002-03). The dataset contains one record for each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and four of the other jurisdictions (American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands). A record for Guam is also included, although this jurisdiction did not report any data.

Revenue data are reported by source, and expenditure data by function and object. Data on average daily attendance are also provided.

The data file can be downloaded from the NCES Electronic Catalog either as an Excel file or as a flat file that can be used with statistical processing programs such as SPSS or SAS. Documentation is provided in separate files.

For questions about this data product, contact Frank H. Johnson (frank.johnson@ed.gov).

To obtain this data product (NCES 2005-358), visit the NCES Electronic Catalog (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch).

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2003–04 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:04): Undergraduate Data Analysis System

The NPSAS:04 Undergraduate Data Analysis System (DAS) contains data on a sample of about 80,000 undergraduates who were enrolled at any time between July 1, 2003, and June 30, 2004, in about 1,400 postsecondary institutions. It represents all undergraduate students enrolled in postsecondary institutions in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico eligible to participate in the federal financial aid programs in Title IV of the Higher Education Act. The survey focuses on how they and their families pay for postsecondary education and includes general demographics and other characteristics of these students, types of aid and amounts received, and the cost of attending college.

The DAS is a software application that allows users to produce tables and correlation matrices from NCES datasets, mainly postsecondary data. There is a separate DAS for each dataset, but all have a consistent interface and command structure.

For questions about this data product, contact Aurora D'Amico (aurora.d'amico@ed.gov).

To obtain this data product (NCES 2005-164), visit the NCES Electronic Catalog (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch).

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2003–04 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:04): Graduate Data Analysis System

The NPSAS:04 Graduate Data Analysis System (DAS) contains data on a sample of about 11,000 graduate students who were enrolled at any time between July 1, 2003, and June 30, 2004, in about 1,400 postsecondary institutions. It represents all graduate students enrolled in postsecondary institutions in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico eligible to participate in the federal financial aid programs in Title IV of the Higher Education Act. The survey focuses on how students pay for postsecondary education and includes general demographics and other characteristics of these students, types of aid and amounts received, and the cost of attending college.

The DAS is a software application that allows users to produce tables and correlation matrices from NCES datasets, mainly postsecondary data. There is a separate DAS for each dataset, but all have a consistent interface and command structure.

For questions about this data product, contact Aurora D'Amico (aurora.d'amico@ed.gov).

To obtain this data product (NCES 2005-165), visit the NCES Electronic Catalog (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch).

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Data File, Public-Use: Public Libraries Survey: Fiscal Year 2002

The Public Libraries Survey (PLS) is conducted annually by NCES through the Federal-State Cooperative System (FSCS) for Public Library Data. The data are collected by a network of state data coordinators appointed by the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA). For fiscal year 2002, the PLS includes data from 9,141 public libraries in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the other jurisdictions of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

This revised file was previously released in August 2004. It is identical to the previous release except for a net increase of 1,263 web addresses on the Public Library Data File.

The data and related documentation can be downloaded from the NCES Electronic Catalog in Microsoft Access or ASCII (flat file) formats.

For questions about this data product, contact P. Elaine Kroe (patricia.kroe@ed.gov).

To obtain this data product (NCES 2004-327), visit the NCES Electronic Catalog (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch).

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Data File, Public-Use: Public Libraries Survey: Fiscal Year 2003

The Public Libraries Survey (PLS) is conducted annually by NCES through the Federal-State Cooperative System (FSCS) for Public Library Data. The data are collected by a network of state data coordinators appointed by the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA). For fiscal year 2003, the PLS includes data from 9,214 public libraries in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the other jurisdictions of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The files include data on population of legal service area, service outlets, full-time-equivalent staff, operating revenue and expenditures, capital revenue and expenditures, library collections, public service hours, library visits, reference transactions, total circulation, circulation of children's materials, children's program attendance, interlibrary loans, public-use internet terminals, and users of electronic resources.

The data and related documentation can be downloaded from the NCES Electronic Catalog in Microsoft Access or ASCII (flat file) formats.

For questions about this data product, contact P. Elaine Kroe (patricia.kroe@ed.gov).

To obtain this data product (NCES 2005-362), visit the NCES Electronic Catalog (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch).

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Other Publications

The Nation's Report Card: An Introduction to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics

This report explains the major features of NAEP. It highlights the history and development of NAEP, data collection, scoring and analysis, and the reporting of results. This introductory guide to NAEP is designed to provide basic information for teachers, parents, and other members of the general public about the nation's premier assessment of what America's elementary and secondary students know and can do.

For questions about this report, contact Sherran T. Osborne (sherran.osborne@ed.gov).

To obtain this report (NCES 2005-454), call the toll-free ED Pubs number (877-433-7827) or visit the NCES Electronic Catalog (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch).

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The Condition of Education in Brief 2005

Andrea Livingston and John Wirt (editors)

The 2005 edition of The Condition of Education , a congressionally mandated NCES annual report, presents 40 indicators of the status and progress of education in the United States. The Condition of Education in Brief 2005 is a convenient reference brochure that contains a summary of 19 of the 40 indicators from the full-length report, including both graphics and descriptive text.

Topics covered in The Condition of Education in Brief 2005 include public and private enrollment in elementary/secondary education, the racial/ethnic distribution of public school students, undergraduate postsecondary enrollments, trends in student achievement in reading and mathematics from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, international comparisons of mathematics literacy, annual earnings of young adults by education and race/ethnicity, status dropout rates, immediate transition to college, postsecondary participation and attainment, availability of advanced courses in high school, inclusion of students with disabilities in regular classrooms, school violence and safety, faculty salary and total compensation, early development of children, expenditures per student in public elementary and secondary education, and the public effort to fund postsecondary education. The data presented are from many sources, both government and private.

Editor affiliations: A. Livingston, MPR Associates, Inc.; J. Wirt, NCES.

For questions about content, contact Tom Snyder (Tom.Snyder@ed.gov).

To obtain this publication (NCES 2005-095), call the toll-free ED Pubs number (877-433-7827) or visit the NCES Electronic Catalog (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch).

To obtain the complete Condition of Education (NCES 2005-094), call the toll-free ED Pubs number (877-433-7827), visit the NCES Electronic Catalog (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch), or contact GPO (202-512-1800).

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Directory of Public Elementary and Secondary Agencies 2002–03

Lena M. McDowell and John P. Sietsema

This directory provides a complete listing of agencies responsible for providing free public elementary/secondary instruction or education support services in the 50 states, District of Columbia, five outlying areas, Department of Defense dependents schools, and Bureau of Indian Affairs schools. The agencies are organized by state or jurisdiction and, within each state or jurisdiction, by agency type. Seven types of agencies are listed: regular school districts, supervisory union components, supervisory union administrative centers, regional educational service agencies (RESAs), state-operated agencies, federally operated agencies, and other agencies.

The entry for each listed agency (if complete) includes the following information: agency name, mailing address, and phone number; name of county; metropolitan status code; grade span; total student membership (number of students enrolled); number of regular high school graduates; number of students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs); number of teachers; and number of schools. The information presented comes primarily from the NCES Common Core Of Data (CCD), "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2002–03. Preceding the information on individual agencies are several tables providing summary information, such as numbers and percentages of agencies by type, size, and state.

Author affiliations: L. McDowell and J. Sietsema, NCES.

For questions about content, contact Lena McDowell (lena.mcdowell@ed.gov) or John Sietsema (john.sietsema@ed.gov).

To obtain this publication (NCES 2005-315), call the toll-free ED Pubs number (877-433-7827) or visit the NCES Electronic Catalog (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch).

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America's Public School Libraries: 1953–2000

Joan S. Michie and Barbara A. Holton

This booklet presents a history of federal legislation and national standards affecting school library media centers from 1953–54 through 1999–2000. It also describes key characteristics of school libraries over the same period. The booklet is based on the report Fifty Years of Supporting Children's Learning: A History of Public School Libraries and Federal Legislation From 1953–2000 (NCES 2005-311). The information is drawn from more than 25 sources, primarily federal reports.

For questions about this booklet, contact Barbara Holton (barbara.holton@ed.gov).

To obtain this booklet (NCES 2005-324), call the toll-free ED Pubs number (877-433-7827) or visit the NCES Electronic Catalog (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch).

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User's Guide to Developing Student Interest Surveys Under Title IX

U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics

This user's guide, prepared by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) for the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education, provides guidance for conducting a survey of student interest in order to satisfy Part 3 of the Three-Part Test established in the 1979 Policy Interpretation of the intercollegiate athletic provisions of Title IX of the Higher Education Act of 1972.

The practices that are recommended in this guide do not, in some instances, meet the standards that would govern the collection and analysis of data by a federal statistical agency such as NCES. The goal is to identify and provide guidance on ways to improve practice within the context of compliance with Part 3 of the Three-Part Test.

For questions about this user's guide, contact the NCES webmaster (nceswebmaster@ed.gov).

To obtain this user's guide (NCES 2005-173), visit the NCES Electronic Catalog (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch).

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Training and Funding Opportunities

Training

NCES is offering a seminar on Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) Database for Research and Policy Discussion, January 11–13, 2006:

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Edu cation, will sponsor a 3-day advanced studies seminar on the use of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) database. ECLS-B is designed to support research on a wide range of topics pertaining to young children's cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development and their health status across multiple contexts (e.g., home and child care).

This seminar is open to advanced graduate students and faculty members from colleges and universities nationwide and to researchers, education practitioners, and policy analysts from federal, state, and local education and human services agencies and professional associations.

For general information, contact Beverly Coleman (beverly.coleman@ed.gov).

For more detailed information on this session or if you are interested in attending, please visit the conference/training section of the NCES website: http://nces.ed.gov/conferences/.

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The AERA Grants Program

Jointly funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), NCES, and the Institute of Education Sciences, this training and research program is administered by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). The program has four major elements: a research grants program, a dissertation grants program, a fellows program, and a training institute. The program is intended to enhance the capability of the U.S. research community to use large-scale datasets, specifically those of the NSF and NCES, to conduct studies that are relevant to educational policy and practice, and to strengthen communications between the educational research community and government staff.

Applications for this program may be submitted at any time. The application review board meets three times per year. The following are examples of grants recently awarded under the program:

Research Grants

  • Sara Goldrick-Rab, University of Wisconsin, Madison—Investigating Path Dependence in Postsecondary Education Transitions
  • Brent McBride, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign—Father Involvement, Child Learning and Development: A Longitudinal View

Dissertation Grants

  • Brenda Arellano Anguiano, University of California, Santa Barbara—The Impact of Parental Involvement in the Achievement of Language Minority Latino Students in Early Elementary School
  • Anna Chung, Indiana University—For-Profit Colleges: An Opportunity for Under-Served? Analysis of Educational and Economic Outcomes for Proprietary Students
  • Rachel Durham, Pennsylvania State University— Linguistic Assimilation: Social and Cognitive Determinants and its Effects on Early Literacy
  • Nevbahar Ertas, Georgia State University—Public School Responses to Charter School Presence
  • Carolina Milesi, University of Wisconsin, Madison—Different Paths, Different Destinations: A Life Course Perspective on Educational Transitions
  • Stefanie Mollborn, Stanford University—Why Is It So Bad? Teenage Parenthood and the Impact of Norms and Resources
  • Takako Nomi, Pennsylvania State University—Educational Stratification in Early Elementary School: The Causal Effect of Ability Grouping on Reading Achievement in Early Elementary School
  • Julie Riordan, University of Pennsylvania—The Cumulative Effect of High Quality Teaching on the Cognitive Development of Early Elementary Students
  • Letitia Thomas, University at Buffalo, SUNY—Pathways to Success or Failure: Factors Affecting Academic Achievement Among Black Students

For more information, contact Edith McArthur (edith.mcarthur@ed.gov) or visit the AERA Grants Program website (http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram).

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The NAEP Secondary Analysis Grant Program

The NAEP Secondary Analysis Grant Program was developed to encourage education researchers to conduct secondary analysis studies using data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the NAEP High School Transcript Studies. This program is open to all public or private organizations and consortia of organizations. The program is typically announced annually, in midsummer, in the Federal Register. Grants awarded under this program run from 12 to 18 months and awards range from $15,000 to $100,000. The following grants were awarded for fiscal year 2005:

  • Joseph Meyer, James Madison University—Comparison of Bridging Methods in Analysis of NAEP Trends With New Race and Ethnicity Subgroup Definitions
  • Edward Ip, Wake Forest University—Multiscale Visualization of National and State NAEP Data Through Interactive Graphics
  • Diane Whitmore, University of Chicago—Advancing Education Improvement by Improving Child Health: An Analysis of NAEP Data
  • Kerry Englert, Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning—State Policy, Multicultural Teacher Education, and Student Learning
  • Jaekyung Lee, Research Foundation of the State University of New York—Evaluating State Equity and Adequacy in School Resources in Math Achievement: Multilevel Joint Analyses Linking NAEP to SASS and F-33
  • Sarah Lubienski, University of Illinois—A New Look at School Type, Mathematics Achievement and Equity
  • Jimmy de la Torre, Rutgers University—NAEP Proficiency and Skill Profile Comparisons at the State Level

For more information, contact Alex Sedlacek(alex.sedlacek@ed.gov).

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AIR Grants Program

The Association for Institutional Research (AIR), with support from NCES and the National Science Foundation (NSF), has developed a grants program titled Improving Institutional Research in Postsecondary Educational Institutions. The goals of this program are to provide professional development opportunities to doctoral students, institutional researchers, educators, and administrators, and to foster the use of federal databases for institutional research in postsecondary education. The program has the following four major components:

  • dissertation research fellowships for doctoral students;
  • research grants for institutional researchers and faculty;
  • a Summer Data Policy Institute in the Washington, DC, area to study the national databases of NSF and NCES; and
  • a senior fellowship program.

For more information, contact Susan Broyles (susan.broyles@ed.gov) or visit the AIR website (www.airweb.org).

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NPEC/AIR Focused Grants

The National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC) and the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) have developed a focused grant program to fund research and studies to increase understanding and knowledge in a specific issue area that has been identified by the NPEC Executive Committee as critically important to the postsecondary education community. For the 2006 grant year, the focus is on improving information for student decisions about postsecondary education. Proposals are due January 15 of each year.

In 2005, NPEC and AIR made nine 1-year grant awards ranging up to $15,000 for dissertation work and up to $30,000 for other activities. Grant recipients will make a presentation of their work at an NPEC national policy panel in 2008. Travel to this meeting will be paid for by NPEC.

Following are grants awarded for fiscal year 2005 in the focus area of student success in postsecondary education:

  • Thomas Bailey and Davis Jenkins, Columbia University—Using State Student Record Data to Map Pathways to Success for Underserved Com- munity College Students
  • Rachelle L. Brooks and Dennis M. Kivlighan, Jr., University of Maryland-College Park—A Longitudinal Study of Student Success: The Relation Between Academic Major, Student Demographics, and Broad Student Outcomes
  • Anna Chung, Indiana University-Bloomington—For-Profit Colleges: An Opportunity for the Under-Served? Analysis of Educational and Economic Outcomes for Proprietary Students
  • Lamont A. Flowers, University of Florida—Exploring Racial Differences in the Effects of College on Students' Law School Admission Test Scores
  • Sandra Kortesoja, University of Michigan—Factors Influencing Nontraditional Age Student Participation in Postsecondary Education: How Do Student Motivations and Characteristics Relate to Participation in Credential Programs?
  • Crystal Gafford Muhammad, North Carolina State University—The Black-Black Educational Attainment Gap: Socio-Cultural and Academic Identity at a Crossroads
  • Sarah Rab, University of Wisconsin-Madison— How Complex Postsecondary Educational Transitions Shape Student Success
  • Laura Wilson-Gentry, Daniel Martin, Merrill Pritchett, and Daniel Gerlowski, University of Baltimore—Student Success and Web-Based Graduate Education
  • Po Yang, Columbia University—A Generation on the Move: Education and Economic Attainment of Four-Year College Transfer Students

For more information, contact Roz Korb (roslyn.korb@ed.gov) or visit the AIR website (http://www.airweb.org) for more information and instructions for writing and submitting proposals.


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