A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

Publications

Elementary/Secondary

*Advanced Telecommunications in U.S. Public Schools K-12

contains tabular summaries based on data collected from a Fast Response Survey conducted in the fall of 1994. $4.50 from GPO; #065-000-00743 6.

*America's Mathematics Problems: Raising Student Achievement

presents a synthesis of findings from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 1992 Mathematics Assessment. $2.75 from GPO; #065-000-00707-6.

*Curricular Differentiation in Public High Schools

explains the policies and practices schools use in structuring their curricula to meet the needs of students with different abilities, learning rates, interests, or motivations. $3.75 from GPO; #065-000-00723-1.

*Directory of Public Elementary and Secondary Agencies: School Year 1992-93

is a comprehensive listing of local education agencies for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and four territories. $25 from GPO; #065-000-00698-7.

*Disparities in Public School District Spending 1989-90

addresses school finance policy issues through the analysis of school district revenue and expenditures data from the 1990 Survey of Local Government Finances-School Systems. $13 from GPO; #065-000-00720-7.

*Effective Schools in Mathematics

(see School Environment Affects Math Studies). $7 from GPO; #065-000706-1.

ERIC Review Systemic--Education Reform

discusses and provides resources on emerging education issues. Free from ACCESS ERIC; ERIC 94-5042.

*Focus on NAEP: 1994 Teacher Background Questionnaire

provides information from NAEP for school districts, state education agencies, education associations, and others interested in student progress. Free from OERI; NCES 94-666.

*How Much Time Do Teachers Spend in Their Work?

presents data from the 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) and compares it with similar data from the 1987-88 SASS. Free from OERI; NCES 95-709.

*How School Mathematics Functions

focuses on teachers' reports from NAEP about classroom contexts for learning school mathematics. $11 from GPO; #065-000-00708-8.

*NAEP Reports--

Interviewing Children About Their Literacy Experiences is an integrated measure of student's home and school experiences as readers. It also serves as a performance record of their fluency and their perceptions of the reading activities in which they are involved. $6.50 from GPO; #065-000-00733-9. Listening to Children Read Aloud centers on oral proficiency and was conducted as a part of the 1992 Integrated Reading Performance Record. $6.50 from GPO; #065-000-00732-1. Report in Brief: A Synthesis of Data from NAEP's 1992 Integrated Reading Performance Record at Grade 4 summarizes information from Interviewing Children About Their Literacy Experiences and Listening to Children Read Aloud. $2 from GPO; #065-000-00730-4.

*Personnel Exchange Network

explains how the personnel exchange network enables state and local education agency staff to share knowledge about education data issues. It also contains information on how to apply for participation in a Personnel Exchange. Free from NCES, contact Carol Sue Fromboluti, 219-1672.

*Private Schools in the United States: A Statistical Profile, 1990-1991

looks at the structure and size differences between public and private schools; annual tuition, class, and remedial offerings in private schools. $14 from GPO; #065-000-00739-8.

*Reading Assessment Redesigned

gives an overview of the theoretical framework underlying the NAEP assessment, a description and presentation of reading materials used in assessment, a discussion of students' performance on constructed-response questions, and the results of students' performance in reading. $19 from GPO; #065-000-00731-2.

*School Library Media Centers in the United States: 1990-91

presents data on school library media centers over time and state by state. $4.25 from GPO; #065-000-00715-1.

School-Linked Comprehensive Services for Children and Families: What We Know and What We Need to Know

describes the 1994 working conference with the same name, which focused on developing a research agenda with researchers/evaluators, service providers, family members, and federal agencies. $9.50 from GPO; #065-000-00754-1.

*Source of Newly Hired Teachers in Public and Private Schools: 1988-91

uses data from the Schools and Staffing Survey to examine the various sources on which schools depend to meet the increasing demand for new teacher hires. Free from OERI; NCES 94-395.

*Staff Data Handbook: Elementary, Secondary and Early Childhood Education

serves as a reference document to public education agencies, public and private schools, early childhood centers, educational institutions, and researchers. $20 from GPO; #065-000-00737-1.

*State Profiles of Public Elementary and Secondary Education, 1991-1992

summarizes data on the general characteristics, fiscal revenues, and expenditures; educational agency and school numbers and sizes; and students and staff for each state, the District of Columbia, and the five outlying areas. $32 from GPO; #065-000-00738-0.

*Systemic Reform: Perspectives on Personalizing Education

covers theories of systemic reform, systemic reform in practice, and system reform and the future. It is a compendium of nine papers by the Studies of Education Reform Program. $13 from GPO; #065-000-00703-7.

TV Viewing and Parental Guidance

provides background, research, and sources of additional information about television viewing and parental guidance. Free from OERI; OR 94-3001.

*Vocational Course Taking and Achievement: An Analysis of High School Transcripts and 1990 NAEP Assessment Scores

describes the relationship between vocational course taking and academic achievement as measured by the 1990 NAEP. $4 from GPO; #065-000-00766-5. (You may also read an overview of this document on the ED Gopher and download a zipped version of the document in WordPerfect 5.2.)

*Windows into the Classroom

describes the classroom writing of American school children. $18 from GPO; #065-000-00734-7.

Postsecondary

*Academic Libraries--1992

looks at expenditures, funding, staff, equipment, collections, and transactions at libraries in the 3,274 institutions of higher education. $3.75 from GPO; #065-000-00717-7.

*Basic Student Charges at Postsecondary Institutions, Academic Year 1993-94

presents information on charges for full-time, full-year students at 4-year institutions by state and institution for student level, residence status, and control of institution. Charges are separated for tuition and required fees, room, and board. $11 from GPO; #065-000-00701-1.

*Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study Second Follow-up Field Test Report: BPS:90/94

is a summary and evaluation of methodological procedures and results. $17 from GPO; #065-000-00704-5.

Campus Security: A First Look at Promising Practices

represents a first attempt at assisting colleges and universities as they develop policies, procedures, and programs to increase safety and respond appropriately to victims of crime. $2.25 from GPO; #065-000-00681-2.

*Characteristics of the Nation's Postsecondary Institutions: Academic Year 1993-94

summarizes data about the 10,500 schools in the United States and outlying areas that provided postsecondary education during the 1993-94 academic year. Free from OERI; NCES 94-388.

*Characteristics of Students Who Borrow to Finance Their Postsecondary Education

examines the variations in borrowing by student and institutional characteristics, compares borrowers and nonborrowers, and examines borrowing in relation to need and other financial aid. $7 from GPO; #065-000-00719-3.

*Current Funds Revenues and Expenditures of Institutions of Higher Education: Fiscal Year 1984 through 1992

presents basic statistics on revenues and expenditures of institutions of higher education during the fiscal years 1984-1992. $3.25 from GPO; #065-000-00682-1.

*Degrees and Other Awards Conferred by Institutions of Higher Education: 1992-93

presents data on degrees conferred during the 1992-93 academic school year by the nation's accredited higher education institutions. $4.50 from GPO; #065-000-00751-7.

*Enrollment in Higher Education: Fall 1984 through Fall 1993

presents findings from two institutional-based postsecondary education fall enrollment surveys conducted by NCES: the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) and the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). Free from OERI; NCES 95-238.

*Faculty and Instructional Staff: Who Are They and What Do They Do?

is a study about faculty and instructional staff in higher education institutions. $2.50 from GPO; #065-000-00702-9.

*Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)

describes IPEDS, its scope, its various surveys, data collection, specific data uses, and data availability. Free from OERI; NCES 94-664.

*Minority Undergraduate Participation in Postsecondary Education

provides information about minority undergraduate participation in postsecondary education based on the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:90) and examines postsecondary persistence among racial-ethnic groups using the longitudinal component of NPSAS:90: Beginning Postsecondary Students (BPS:90/92). $4.75 from GPO; #065-000-00767-3. (You may also read an overview of this document on the ED gopher and download a zipped version of the document in MS Word 6.0.)

*National Assessment of College Student Learning: Identifying College Graduates' Essential Skills in Writing, Speech and Listening, and Critical Thinking

identifies specific higher order communication and thinking skills that college graduates should achieve to become effective employees in the workplace and citizens in society. $13 from GPO; #065-000-00760-6.

*Residence and Migration of First-Time Freshmen Enrolled in Higher Education Institutions: Fall 1992

presents detailed tabulations of data on the residence and migration of first-time freshmen enrolled in higher education institutions in the fall of 1992. $2.50 from GPO; #065-000-00735 5.

*Salaries, Tenure, and Fringe Benefits, 1993-94

presents the results of analyses of data on salaries of full-time postsecondary instructional faculty on 9- and 10-month contracts. Free from OERI; NCES 94 395.(You may also read a description of the zipped version of this document on the ED gopher and download the zipped document).

Miscellaneous

*Digest of Education Statistics, 1994

includes data in more than 400 tables on every aspect of education at all levels, a list of sources of information, and a comprehensive index. $33 from GPO; #065-000-00693-6. Mini-Digest of Education Statistics, 1994 contains the most frequently requested tables from the Digest of Education Statistics, 1994, along with an order blank for the Condition of Education, the Digest, and Youth Indicators, 1993. Free from OERI; NCES 94 131.

*Family-Child Engagement in Literacy Activities: Changes in Participation Between 1991 and 1993

looks at participation rates by risk factors, poverty status, race-ethnicity, family type, mother's education, and mother's home language. Free from OERI; NCES 95-689.

*Federal Support for Education

presents data on support by all federal agencies for educational activities covering fiscal years 1980 to 1994. $3.25 from GPO; #065-000-00711-8.

*Finance Data in the Public Library Statistics Program: Definitions, Internal Consistency, and Comparisons to Secondary Sources

is the third in a series of reports examining the Federal State Cooperative System (FSCS) Public Library Statistics (PLS) Program. The report evaluates the definitions and internal consistency of the financial variables and compares the statistics collected for these variables to independent secondary sources. $5.50 from GPO; #065-000-00764-9.

*Findings from the Condition of Education 1994--

(see New Series Documents Educational Progress of HS Students). High School Students Ten Years After "A Nation At Risk." $2 from GPO; #065-000-00761-4. The Educational Progress of Black Students. $2 from GPO; #065-000-00762-2. America's Teachers Ten Years After "A Nation At Risk." $2 from GPO; #065-000-00763-1.

*Literacy Behind Prison Walls

describes prisoner literacy in prose, document, and quantitative areas. $13 from GPO; #065-000-00716-9.

*NCES Research and Development Reports--

Using HLM and NAEP Data to Explore School Correlates of 1990 Mathematics and Geometry Achievement in Grades 4, 8, and 12: Methodology and Results illustrates the use of hierarchical linear models with National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data to identify school and other correlates of student achievement. $14 from GPO; #065-000-00727-4. Model-Based Methods for Analysis of Data From 1990 NAEP Trial State Assessment looks at new statistical approaches to NAEP. The principal advantage of the model-based methods is in statistical efficiency and computational simplicity for regression analysis. Model-based methods dispense with the replicate weights which form a large part of the survey data. $5.50 from GPO; #065-000-00728-2. Use of Person-fit Statistics in Reporting and Analyzing National Assessment of Educational Progress presents a different way of looking at the NAEP data. $7 from GPO; #065-000-00727-0.

*Program and Plans for the National Center for Education Statistics, 1995 Edition

describes NCES' current programs, its future plans, and its major publications. Free from OERI; NCES 95 133.

*Projections of Education Statistics to 2005

looks at national projections over the next 10 years for elementary, secondary, and postsecondary enrollment; high school graduates; degrees earned; classroom teachers; and elementary, secondary, and postsecondary expenditures. It also provides state projections for public elementary and secondary enrollment and public high school graduates. $14 from GPO; #065-000-00699-5. Pocket Projections of Education Statistics to 2005 includes the most requested tables of education projections over the next decade. Data for this booklet were taken from Projections of Education Statistics to 2005. Free from OERI; NCES 95-163.

Regional Educational Laboratory Program Directory

provides a listing and description of each of the 10 regional educational laboratories funded by OERI. Free from OERI; PIP 94 1104.

*Report on Evaluation of Definitions Used in the Public Library Statistics Program

is a report on the definitions used in the Public Library Statistics program. It is the second in a series of reports evaluating the program. $6 from GPO; #065-000-00736-3.

The Algebra Initiative Colloquium

is a 2-volume set containing plenary and reactor papers presented at the colloquium on algebra. The set also includes a summary, participant working papers, and recommendations. $25 from GPO; #065-000-00768-1.

*The Pocket Condition of Education, 1994

provides a small sample of the 60 indicators contained in the Condition of Education, 1994. Free from OERI; NCES 94-498.

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