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| Note From NCES |
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Note From NCES |
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By: |
Peggy G. Carr, Associate Commissioner, Assessment
Division |
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Discusses the need for comparative information on student
performance in large urban areas, challenges faced by the National
Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Trial Urban District Assessment
(TUDA), and kinds of data provided by TUDA. |
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| Featured Topic:
NAEP Trial Urban District Assessment |
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The Nation's Report
Card: Reading 2002, Trial Urban District Assessment |
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By: |
Anthony D. Lutkus, Arlene W. Weiner, Mary C. Daane, and Ying Jin |
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Describes the reading performance of students in five
urban public school districts. Includes data on student subgroups
and comparisons with the performance of public school students in
the nation and in central city schools. |
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The Nation's Report
Card: Writing 2002, Trial Urban District Assessment |
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By: |
Anthony D. Lutkus, Mary C. Daane, Arlene
W. Weiner, and Ying Jin |
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Describes the writing performance of students in five
urban public school districts. Includes data on student subgroups
and comparisons with the performance of public school students in
the nation and in central city schools. |
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Trial Urban District
Assessment Snapshot Reports: Reading 2002 and Writing 2002 |
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By: |
National Center for Education Statistics
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Provides a customized overview of results for each urban
district that participated in the 2002 TUDA. |
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Invited Commentary:
NAEP's Trial Urban District Assessment: An Experiment Worth the Effort |
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By: |
Michael Casserly, Executive Director, Council
of the Great City Schools |
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| Elementary and Secondary
Education |
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The Nation's Report
Card: Writing 2002 |
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By: |
Hilary R. Persky, Mary C. Daane, and Ying
Jin |
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Reports national and state-level results on student
performance in writing. Includes data on student subgroups and comparisons
of results from 2002 with those from 1998. |
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Public High School
Graduates Who Participated in Vocational/Technical Education: 1982–1998 |
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By: |
Karen Levesque |
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Uses high school transcript data to examine trends
in vocational coursetaking among students concentrating in an occupational
program area. Considers variables such as student race/ethnicity,
sex, disability status, English proficiency, and academic achievement. |
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Getting Ready to Pay
for College: What Students and Their Parents Know About the Cost of
College Tuition and What They Are Doing to Find Out |
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By: |
Laura J. Horn, Xianglei Chen, and Chris Chapman
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Investigates how much college-bound students in grades
6 through 12 and their parents know about the cost of attending college,
and the relationships between their knowledge of college costs and
how they go about preparing for college. |
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High School Guidance
Counseling |
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By: |
Basmat Parsad, Debbie Alexander, Elizabeth
Farris, and Lisa Hudson |
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Describes guidance programs, activities, and staff at
public high schools. Includes national estimates on the goals, plans,
and features of guidance programs; participation by 11th- and 12th-graders;
and professional development and characteristics of guidance staff. |
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Overview and Inventory
of State Education Reforms: 1990 to 2000 |
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By: |
David Hurst, Alexandra Tan, Anne Meek, and
Jason Sellers |
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Examines developments in state-level education policies,
including reform efforts related to standards, assessment, and accountability;
school finance; teacher training and school resources; and school
choice options. |
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| Postsecondary Education |
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Work First, Study Second:
Adult Undergraduates Who Combine Employment and Postsecondary Enrollment |
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By: |
Ali Berker and Laura Horn |
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Examines the characteristics and educational experiences
of working adult undergraduates, focusing on those who considered
employment their primary activity and comparing them with those who
considered postsecondary enrollment their primary activity. |
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Postsecondary Attainment,
Attendance, Curriculum, and Performance: Selected Results From the
NELS:88/2000 Postsecondary Education Transcript Study (PETS), 2000
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By: |
Clifford Adelman, Bruce Daniel, and Ilona
Berkovits |
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Presents data on attainment by race/ethnicity, sex,
and socioeconomic status; attendance patterns, such as number and
types of institutions attended; curriculum by college major as well
as high school coursetaking; and performance in terms of GPA, remedial
courses, and number of postsecondary credits. |
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A Descriptive Summary
of 1999–2000 Bachelor's Degree Recipients 1 Year Later: With
an Analysis of Time to Degree |
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By: |
Ellen M. Bradburn, Rachael Berger, Xiaojie
Li, Katharin Peter, and Kathryn Rooney |
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Provides a demographic profile of bachelor's degree
recipients, examines the institutional paths they took to complete
their degrees, and describes the amount of time they took to complete
their degrees. Also includes tables with data on postbaccalaureate
activities. |
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Distance Education
at Degree-Granting Postsecondary Institutions: 2000–2001 |
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By: |
Tiffany Waits and Laurie Lewis |
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Includes the number and proportion of institutions offering
distance education courses or programs, enrollments, degrees and certificates,
technologies, accommodations for students with disabilities, program
goals, and factors keeping institutions from starting or expanding
offerings. |
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| Methodology |
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Third International
Mathematics and Science Study 1999 Video Study Technical Report, Volume
I: Mathematics |
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By: |
Jennifer Jacobs, Helen Garnier, Ronald Gallimore,
Hilary Hollingsworth, Karen Bogard Givvin, Keith Rust, Takako Kawanaka,
Margaret Smith, Diana Wearne, Alfred Manaster, Wallace Etterbeek,
James Hiebert, and James Stigler |
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Details the planning, implementation, processing, analysis,
and reporting of the mathematics component of a complex study in which
numerous videotapes of lessons in participating countries were collected
and analyzed. |
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Baccalaureate and Beyond
Longitudinal Study: 2000–01 (B&B:2000/01) Methodology Report |
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By: |
Stephanie Charleston, John Riccobono, Paul
Mosquin, and Michael Link |
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Details the methodology of a 1-year follow-up survey
of a national sample of college graduates who were first interviewed
in 1999–2000, the year they completed their bachelor's degrees.
Describes sample design and selection, coverage and weighting procedures,
results of nonresponse analyses, and statistical quality evaluation. |
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| Data Products, Other
Publications, and Funding Opportunities |
| Data Products |
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Data File: Postsecondary
Education in the United States: Fall 2000, Spring 2001, and Degrees
Conferred 1999–2000 |
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Data File: Baccalaureate
and Beyond Longitudinal Study 2000/01 Data Analysis System (DAS) Online |
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| Other Publications |
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NAEP Writing 2002
State Snapshot Reports |
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By: |
National Center for Education Statistics |
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The Nation's Report
Card: Writing Highlights 2002 |
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By: |
Hilary Persky, Mary Daane, and Ying Jin |
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Reading—Young
Children's Achievement and Classroom Experiences |
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By: |
Kristin Denton, Jerry West, and Jill Walston |
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A Brief Profile
of America's Private Schools |
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By: |
National Center for Education Statistics |
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A Brief Profile
of America's Public Schools |
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By: |
National Center for Education Statistics |
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Directory of Public
Elementary and Secondary Education Agencies 2001–02 |
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By: |
Lena McDowell and John Sietsema |
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Congressionally
Mandated Studies of College Costs and Prices |
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By: |
National Center for Education Statistics |
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Assessing the Arts:
Selected NAEP Tasks and Scoring Guides for Grades 4 and 12 1997 Field
Test. Dance, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts |
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By: |
Hilary Persky, Brent A. Sandene, and Jamie
Askew |
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National Household
Education Surveys Program of 2001: Data File User's Manual, Volumes
I–IV |
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By: |
Mary Hagedorn, Jill Montaquila, Mary Jo Nolin,
Kwang Kim, Brian Kleiner, Tiffany Waits, Christopher Chapman, and
Kathryn Chandler |
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| Training and Funding Opportunities |
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Training |
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The AERA Grants
Program |
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The NAEP Secondary
Analysis Grant Program |
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AIR Grants Program |
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NPEC/AIR Focused
Grants |
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