The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) for 1998-99: Design Recommendations to Inform Broad Education Policy

Title:	The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) for 1998-99: Design Recommendations to Inform Broad Education Policy
Description:	The objectives of this paper are to: 1) Reconsider the goals, foci, and strategy of SASS, taking into account the original framework established in the the mid-1980s and SASS's potential to inform broad education policy in the future; 2) Identify potential new areas of questionnaire content related to schooling that are likely to be of importance to education policy issues in the future; 3) Review the content of the most recent SASS questionnaires in light of a) the existing balance between teacher supply and demand content and other school content, b) the extent of coverage of particular topics that appears to be excessive or the coverage of topics that appears to be of relatively low priority, and c) redundancy across questionnaires; and 4) Recommend priorities among potential new content areas and essential areas from past SASS administrations that might be included in the 1998-99 administrations of SASS.
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Cover Date:	March 1996
Web Release:	March 31, 1996
Print Release:	March 31, 1996
Publication #:	NCES 9606 General Ordering Information
Center/Program:	NCES
Authors:	Erling E. Boe Ph.d.
Type of Product:	Working Paper
	Working Papers provide preliminary analysis of substantive, technical, and methodological issues. They are works in progress that are presented to promote the sharing of valuable work experience and knowledge. These papers have not undergone a rigorous review for consistency with NCES standards.
Survey/Program Areas:	Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS)
Questions:	For questions about the content of this Working Paper, please contact: Ryan Iaconelli.