SASS and TFS Data Products

SCHOOLS AND STAFFING SURVEY (SASS) AND TEACHER FOLLOWUP SURVEY (TFS)DATA PRODUCTS

The following SASS data products may be obtained free of charge while supplies last. Please contact SASS staff

Reports

• The Effects of Professionalization on Teachers: A Multi-Level Analysis, 1990-91 (NCES 97-069)
• The State of Teaching as a Profession, 1990-91 (NCES 97-104)
• Time Spent Teaching Core Academic Subjects in Elementary Schools: Comparisons Across Community School, Teacher, and Student Characteristics (NCES 97-293)
• Student Records Questionnaire: School Year 1993-94, With Special Emphasis on American Indians and Alaska Native Students (E.D. Tab, NCES 97-449)
• Characteristics of Stayers, Movers, and Leavers: Results from the Teacher Followup Survey, 1994-95 (E.D. Tab, NCES 97-450)
• Characteristics of American Indian and Alaska Native Education, Results from the 1993-94 DSDD (NCES 97-451)
• Public and Private School Principals In The United States: A Statistical Profile, 1987-88 to 1993-94 (NCES 97-455)
• A Profile of Administration Policies and Practices for Limited English Proficiency Students: Screening Methods, Teacher Training, and Program Support, 1993-94 (NCES 97-472)
• The Schools and Staffing Survey Recommendation for the Future (NCES 97-596)
• Out-of-Field Teaching and Educational Equality (NCES 96-040)
• Schools and Staffing in the United States: A Statistical Profile: 1993-94 (NCES 96-124)
• Private School Universe Survey, 1993-94 (NCES 96-143)
• SASS by State, 1993-94 Schools and Staffing Survey: Selected State Results (NCES 96-312)
• Comparing Key Organizational Qualities of American Public and Private Secondary Schools (NCES 96-322)
• Schools and Staffing in the United States: Selected Data for Public and Private Schools, 1993-94 (E.D. Tab, NCES 95-191)
• Private Schools in the United States: A Statistical Profile, 1990-91 (NCES 95-330)
• Teacher Supply in the U.S.: Sources of Newly Hired Teachers in Public and Private Schools, 1988 1991 (NCES 95-348)
• Characteristics of American Indian and Alaska Native Education, Results from the 1990-91 SASS (NCES 95-735)
• Teacher Supply, Teacher Qualifications and Teacher Turnover, Aspects of Teacher Supply and Demand in the U.S., 1990-91 (NCES 95-744)
• The Patterns of Teacher Compensation (NCES 95-829)
• Characteristics of Stayers, Movers, and Leavers: Results from the Teacher Followup Survey, 1991-92 (E.D. Tab, NCES 94-337)
• SASS by State (NCES 94-343)
• Private School Universe Survey, 1991-92 (NCES 94-350)
• Qualifications of the Public School Teacher Workforce: 1988 and 1991 (NCES 94-665)
• America s Teachers: Profile of a Profession (NCES 93-025)
• Private School Universe Survey, 1989-90 (NCES 93-122)
• Selected Tables on Teacher Supply and Demand (E.D. Tab, NCES 93-141)
• Schools and Staffing in the United States: A Statistical Profile, 1990-91 (NCES 93-146)
• Schools and Staffing in the United States: Selected Data for Public and Private Schools, 1990-91 (E.D. Tab, NCES 93-453)
• Schools and Staffing in the United States: A Statistical Profile, 1987-88 (NCES 92-120)
• Characteristics of Stayers, Movers, and Leavers: Results from the Teacher Followup Survey, 1988-89 (E.D. Tab, NCES 91-128)

Forthcoming Reports

• America's Teachers: Profile of a Profession, 1993-94
• Job Satisfaction Among America's Teachers: Effects of Workplace, Conditions, Background Characteristics, and Teacher Compensation, 1993-94
• Private Schools in the U.S.: A Statistical Profile, 1993-94
• Sources of Newly Hired Teachers in Public and Private Schools, 1988 94
• Characteristics of Public School Districts, 1993-94

Issue Briefs

• Schools Serving Family Needs: Extended-Day Programs in Public and Private Schools (Issue Brief, NCES 97-590)
• Programs for Aspiring Principals: Who Participates? (Issue Brief, NCES 97-591)
• Credentials and Tests in Teacher Hiring: What Do Districts Require? (Issue Brief, NCES 97-592)
• Are Limited English Proficient (LEP) Students Being Taught by Teachers with LEP Training? (Issue Brief, NCES 97-907)
• How Widespread is Site-Based Decisionmaking in Public Schools? (Issue Brief, NCES 97-908)
• Public School Choice Programs, 1993-94: Availability and Student Participation (Issue Brief, NCES 97-909)
• Teachers' Sense of Community: How Do Public and Private Schools Compare? (Issue Brief, NCES 97-910)
• Are High School Teachers Teaching Core Subjects Without College Majors or Minors in Those Subjects? (Issue Brief, NCES 96-839)
• Where Do Minority Principals Work? (Issue Brief, NCES 96-840)
• What Academic Programs are Offered Most Frequently in Schools Serving American Indian and Alaska Native Students? (Issue Brief, NCES 96-841)
• How Safe are the Public Schools: What Do Teachers Say? (Issue Brief, NCES 96-842)
• Extended Day Programs in Elementary and Combined Schools (Issue Brief, NCES 96-843)
• What Criteria are Used in Considering Teacher Applicants? (Issue Brief, NCES 96-844)
• Private School Graduation Requirements (Issue Brief, NCES 95-145)
• How Much Time Do Public and Private School Teachers Spend in Their Work? (Issue Brief, NCES 95-709)
• Migration and Attrition of Public and Private School Teachers: 1991-92 (Issue Brief, NCES 95-770)
• Which Types of Schools Have the Highest Teacher Turnover? (Issue Brief, NCES 95-778)
• Libraries/Media Centers in Schools: Are There Sufficient Resources? (Issue Brief, NCES 95-779)
• Who Influences Decisionmaking About School Curriculum: What Do Principals Say? (Issue Brief, NCES 95-780)
• Public and Private School Principals: Are There Too Few Women? (Issue Brief, NCES 94-192)
• Sources of Newly Hired Teachers in Public and Private Schools, 1988 91 (Issue Brief, NCES 94-481)
• What are the Most Serious Problems in Schools? (Issue Brief, NCES 93-149)
• Teacher Salaries Are They Competitive? (Issue Brief, NCES 93-450)
• Teaching and Administrative Work Experience of Public School Principals (Issue Brief, NCES 93-452)
• Teacher Attrition and Migration (Issue Brief, NCES 92-148)

Video

• Americas Teachers: Profile of a Profession

Methods

• 1993-94 Schools and Staffing Survey: Sample Design and Estimation (Technical Report, NCES 96-089)
• An Exploratory Analysis of Nonrespondents in the 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Survey (NCES 96-338)
• Design Effects and Generalized Variance Functions for the 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Surveys (SASS) Volume I--User's Manual (NCES 95-342I)
• Design Effects and Generalized Variance Functions for the 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Surveys (SASS) Volume II--Technical Report (NCES 95-340II)
• Quality Profile for SASS: Aspects of the Quality of Data in the Schools and Staffing Surveys (Technical Report, NCES 94-340)
• 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Survey: Sample Design and Estimation (Technical Report, NCES 93-449)
• Modeling Teacher Supply and Demand, with Commentary (Research and Development Report, NCES 93-461)
• 1987-88 Schools and Staffing Survey: Sample Design and Estimation (Technical Report, NCES 91-127)

CD-ROMs

• Schools and Staffing Survey: 1993-94 Electronic Codebook and Public Use Data
• Schools and Staffing Survey: 1990-91 Electronic Codebook and Public Use Data
• Schools and Staffing Survey, 1987-88 Microdata and Documentation

Questionnaires

• SASS and PSS Questionnaires 1993-1994 (NCES 94-674)
• SASS and TFS Questionnaires 1990-1991
• SASS and TFS Questionnaires 1987-1988

User s Manuals

• 1993-94 Schools and Staffing Survey, Data File User's Manual Volume I: Survey Documentation (NCES 96-142)
• 1993-94 Schools and Staffing Survey, Data File User's Manual Volume II: Restricted-Use Codebook (NCES 96-142-II)
• 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Survey: Data File User s Manual Volume I: Survey Documentation (NCES 93-144-I)
• 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Survey: Data File User s Manual Volume II: Restricted-Use codebook (NCES 93-144-II)
• 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Survey: Data File User s Manual Volume III: Public-Use codebook (NCES 93-144-III)
• 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Survey: Data File User s Manual Volume IV: Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Restricted-Use Codebooks: Administrator, Schools, and Teachers (NCES 93-144-IV)
• 1991-92 Teacher Followup Survey Data File User s Manual Public-Use Version (NCES 94-331)
• 1991-92 Teacher Followup Survey Data File User s Manual Restricted-Use Version (NCES 94-478)
• 1988-89 Teacher Followup Survey Data File User s Manual Public-Use Version (NCES 92-058)

Forthcoming User's Manuals

• 1993-94 Schools and Staffing Survey, Data File User's Manual Volume III: Public-Use Codebook
• 1993-94 Schools and Staffing Survey, Data File User s Manual Volume IV: Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Restricted-Use Codebooks: Administrator, Schools, and Teachers
• 1993-94 Schools and Staffing Survey, Data File User's Manual Volume V: Restricted-Use Codebook Students' Records

Conference Papers

• Using Classroom Instructional Process Items in National Center for Education Statistics Study To Measure Student Opportunity to Learn: A Progress Report
• Heaven or Hell? The Teaching Environment of Beginning Teachers
• Using Opportunity to Learn Items in Elementary and Secondary National Surveys
• Characteristics of Public and Private School Teachers
• Characteristics of Mathematics and Science Teachers
• Teacher Training, Certification and Assignment
• Teacher Turnover: Patterns of Entry To and Exit from Teaching
• Moonlighting Among Public and Private School Teachers
• Characteristics of Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language Teachers
• Highlights of Minority Data from the Schools and Staffing Survey
• Teacher Incentive Research with SASS
• Teacher Salaries: Comparing States After Adjusting for Teacher Experience and Education
• What are the Characteristics of Principals Identified as Effective by Teachers
• Schools at Risk: Results of the 1987-88 Schools and Staffing Survey
• Destinations of Movers and Leavers: Where Do They Go?
• Teacher Salaries: Comparing States After Adjusting for Teacher Experience and Education
• Classroom Environment and Support of Beginning Teachers: A Test of the "Crucible versus Cradle" Theory of Teacher Induction
• Why do Teachers Leave Teaching? Reasons for Teacher Attrition from the Teacher Followup Survey

NCES Working Papers Related to SASS

WP 94-01Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). Papers Presented at the Meetings of the American Statistical Association

Section on Survey Research Methods, August 1992

a. "The Schools and Staffing Survey: Research Issues"

b. "The Schools and Staffing Survey: How Reinterview Measures Data Quality"

c. "Mail Versus Telephone Response in the 1991 Schools and Staffing Surveys"

d. "Questionnaire Research in the Schools and Staffing Survey: A Cognitive Approach"

e. "Balance Half-Sample Replication with Aggregation Units"

f. "Characteristics of Nonrespondents in the Schools and Staffing Surveys' School Sample"

g. "Improving Reliability and Comparability on NCES Data on Teachers and Other Education Staff"

Establishment Surveys Conference, June 1993

a. "Sampling Frames at the United States National Center for Education Statistics"

b. "Monitoring Data Quality in Education Surveys"

Section on Survey Research Methods, August 1993

a. "Generalization Variance Functions for the Schools and Staffing Surveys"

b. "A Bootstrap Variance Estimator for the Schools and Staffing Survey"

c. "Adjusting for Nonresponse Bias of Correlated Items Using Logistic Regression"

d. "Comparisons of School Locale Setting: Self-Reported Versus Assigned"

e. "Characteristics of Nonrespondents to the 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Survey"

Social Statistics Section, August 1993

a. "Implicit Markets for Teacher Quality and School Attributes"

b. "Who Decides? Principals' and Teachers' Views on Decision-Making"

c. "Determinants of Pupil-Teacher Ratios at School Sites: Evidence from the Schools and Staffing Survey"

WP 94-02 Generalized Variance Estimates for Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS)

WP 94-03 1991 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) Reinterview Response Variance Report

WP 94-04 The Accuracy of Teachers' Self-report on Their Postsecondary Education: Teacher Transcript Study, Schools and Staffing Survey

WP 94-06 Six Papers on Teachers from the 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Survey and Other Related Surveys

a. "The Results of the 1993 Teacher List Validation Study (TLVS)"

b. "Designing the Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS): Issues and Content)"

c. "Understanding the Supply of Elementary and Secondary Teachers: The Role of the School and Staffing Survey and the Teacher Followup Survey"

d. "Teacher Retention/Attrition: Issues for Research"

e. "Reflections on a SASS Longitudinal Study"

f. "Whither Didst Thou Go? Retention, Reassignment, Migration, and Attrition of Special and General Education Teachers in National Perspective"

WP 95-01 Schools and Staffing Survey: 1994. Papers Presented at the 1994 Meeting of the American Statistical Association (95-01)

Estimation Issues in School Surveys

a. "Intersurvey Consistency in School Surveys"

b. "Estimation Issues Related to the Student Component of the SASS"

c. "Properties of the Schools and Staffing Survey's Bootstrap Variance Estimator"

d. "Optimal Periodicity of a Survey: Sampling Error, Data Deterioration, and Cost"

Response and Coverage Issues in School Surveys

a. "Some Data Issues in School-Based Surveys"

b. "The 1991-92 Teacher Follow-up Survey Reinterview and Extensive Reconciliation"

c. "Improving Coverage in a National Survey of Teachers"

d. "Improving the Coverage of Private Elementary-Secondary Schools"

Education Research Using the Schools and Staffing Surveys and the National Education Longitudinal Study

a. "Adding Value to the Value-Added Educational Production Function Specification"

b. "Teacher Quality in Public and Private Schools"

c. "Teacher Shortages and Teacher Quality"

d. "Work Experience, Local Labor Markets, and Dropping out of High School"

WP 95-02 QED Estimates of the 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Survey: Deriving and Comparing QED School Estimates with CCD Estimates

WP 95-03 Schools and Staffing Survey: 1990-91 SASS Cross-Questionnaire Analysis

WP 95-08 CCD Adjustment to the 1990-91 SASS: A Comparison of Estimates

WP 95-09 The Results of the 1993 Teacher List Validation Study (TLVS)

WP 95-10 The Results of the 1991-92 Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS) Reinterview and Extensive Reconciliation

WP 95-11 Measuring Instruction, Curriculum Content, and Instructional Resources: The Status of Recent Work

WP 95-15 Classroom Instructional Processes: A Review of Existing Measurement Approaches and Their Applicability for the Teacher Followup Survey

WP 95-16 Intersurvey Consistency in NCES Private School Surveys

WP 95-17 Estimates of Expenditures for Private K 12 Schools

WP 95-18 An Agenda for Research on Teachers and Schools: Revisiting NCES" Schools and Staffing Survey

WP 96-01 Methodological Issues in the Study of Teachers' Careers: Critical Features of a Truly Longitudinal Study

WP 96-02 Selected papers presented at the meeting of the 1995 American Statistical Association (96-02)

Overcoming the Bureaucratic Paradigm: Memorial Session in Honor of Roger Herriot

a. "1995 Roger Herriot Award Presentation"

b. "Space/Time Variations in Survey Estimates"

c. "Out of the Box: Again and Again, Roger Herriot at the Census Bureau"

Design and Estimation Issues for School Based Surveys

a. "Improving the Coverage of Private Elementary-Secondary Schools"

b. "Improving GLS Estimation in NCES Surveys"

c. "Optimal Periodicity of a Survey: Alternatives under Cost and Policy Constraint"

d. "Properties of the Schools and Staffing Survey's Bootstrap Variance Estimator"

Data Quality and Nonresponse in Education Surveys

a. "Assessing Quality of CCD Data Using a School-Based Sample Survey"

b. "Documentation of Nonresponse and Consistency of Data Categorization Across NCES Surveys"

c. "Multivariate Modeling of Unit Nonresponse for 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Surveys"

d. "Evaluation of Imputation Methods for State Education Finance Data"

e. "Variance Estimates Comparison by Statistical Software"

f. "Teacher Supply and Demand in the U.S."

WP 96-05 Cognitive Research on the Teacher Listing Form for the Schools and Staffing Survey

WP 96-06 The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) for 1998 99; Design Recommendations to Inform Broad Education Policy

WP 96-07 Should SASS Measure Instructional Processes and Teacher Effectiveness?

WP 96-09 Making Data Relevant for Policy Discussions: Redesigning the School Administrator Questionnaire for the 1998 99 SASS

WP 96-10 1998 99 Schools and Staffing Survey: Issues Related to Survey Depth

WP 96-11 Towards an Organizational Data Base on America's Schools: A Proposal for the Future of SASS, with Comments on School Reform, Governments, and Finance

WP 96-12 Predictors of Retention, Transfer, and Attrition of Special and General Education Teachers: Data from the 1989 Teacher Followup Survey

WP 96-15 Nested Structures: District Level Data in the SASS

WP 96-16 Strategies for Collecting Finance Data from Private Schools

WP 96-23 Linking Student Data to SASS: Why, When, How

WP 96-24 National Assessments of Teacher Quality

WP 96-25 Measures of Inservice Professional Development: Suggested Items for the 1998 99 SASS

WP 96-26 Improving the coverage of Private Elementary-Secondary Schools

WP 96-27 Intersurvey Consistency in NCES Private School Surveys for 1993-94

WP 96-28 Student Learning, Teaching Quality, and Professional Development: Theoretical Linkages, Current Measurement, and Recommendations for Future Data Collection

WP 97-01 Selected Papers on Education Surveys: Papers Presented at the 1996 Meeting of the American Statistical Association

Developing Questionnaires for Education Surveys

a. "Teacher Quality and Educational Inequality"

b. "Using Qualitative Methods to Validate Quantitative Survey Instruments"

c. "Revising the NCES Private School Survey: A Method to Design a Systematic Classification of Private Schools in the United States"

Data Quality in Education Surveys

a. "An Analysis of Response Rates of SASS 1993-94"

b. "An Overview of NCES Surveys Reinterview Programs"

c. "Estimating Response Bias in an Adult Education Survey"

Design and Estimation in School-Based Surveys

a. "Optimal Periodicity of a Survey: Extensions of Probable-Error Models"

b. "Estimating the Variance in the Presence of Imputation Using a Residual"

c. "Where Will It All End? Some Alternative SASS Estimation Research Opportunities"

d. "Estimating State Totals from the Private School Universe Survey"

Policy Analysis with Education and Defense Manpower Survey Data

a. "Effect of High School Programs on Out-Migration of Rural Graduates"

WP 97-07 The Determinants of Per-Pupil Expenditures in Private Elementary and Secondary Schools: An Exploratory Analysis.