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Forum Guide to Education Indicators (2005)

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The Forum Guide to Education Indicators provides encyclopedia-type entries for 44 commonly used education indicators. Each indicator entry contains a definition, recommended uses, usage caveats and cautions, related policy questions, data element components, a formula, commonly reported subgroups, and display suggestions. The document will help readers better understand how to appropriately develop, apply, and interpret commonly used education indicators. In 2022, the Forum published Using Education Indicators: A Forum Guide for State and Local Education Agencies as a companion to this guide.