Education and the Transition to Adulthood

描述(由申请者提供)：该项目将为1997年全国青年纵向研究(NLSY97)受访者添加有关中学后教育的详细信息，从考试成绩和其他行政记录以及中学后入学历史中挑选出来。中学后成绩单将根据研究人员、政策制定者和管理人员使用的成熟分类进行收集和编码。这些新收集的数据，加上大量总结和描述学生中学后经历和结果的变量，将作为公开分发的NLS数据集的一部分提供。NLSY97是首屈一指的具有全国代表性的纵向数据集，用于研究从高中到工作再到成年的过渡。在几个关键领域(就业、学校教育、婚姻和同居、政府项目参与、移民)，NLSY97包括所有受访者每月的状态变量。这份中学后成绩单研究提供了关于各专上院校学生入学模式、他们所修课程(包括课程内容)以及他们在这些课程中的表现的宝贵的详细时间顺序信息。这项研究产生的数据将提供关于家庭、教育、工作和健康在整个生命过程中复杂相互作用的重要信息。这一信息对于了解产生以教育为基础的健康差距的途径至关重要。这项庞大而复杂的研究将涉及两个主要阶段和一个多学科的研究团队。第一阶段涉及收集和编码约4,800名NLSY97受访者的约7,500份中学后成绩单。第二阶段将编制变量和数据文件，供公众传播。这些被构建的变量对于刺激高等教育数据的广泛使用是必不可少的。除了提供公共获取数据外，调查人员还将在许多环境中举办讲习班，并提供详细的文件，向研究和应用环境中的多学科用户介绍数据，并鼓励使用这些数据。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project will add detailed information on postsecondary education for the National Longitudinal Study of Youth of 1997 (NLSY97) respondents, culled from transcripts and other administrative records of test scores and postsecondary enrollment histories. Postsecondary transcripts will be collected and coded according to a well-established taxonomy used by researchers, policy makers, and administrators alike. These newly collected data, plus a large number of variables that summarize and describe students' postsecondary experiences and outcomes will be made available as part of the publicly distributed NLS data set. The NLSY97 is the premier nationally representative longitudinal data set for studying the transition from high school to work and into adulthood. In several key domains (employment, schooling, marriage and cohabitation, government program participation, migration), the NLSY97 includes month-by-month status variables for all respondents. This postsecondary transcript study provides invaluable detailed chronological information about students' enrollment patterns across post-secondary institutions, the courses they took (including the content of the courses) and their performance in those courses. The data produced from this study will provide vital information about the complex interplay of family, education, work and health across the life course. This information is key to understanding the pathways through which education-based health disparities are produced. This large and complex study will involve two major phases and a multidisciplinary research team. The first phase involves the collection and coding of approximately 7,500 postsecondary transcripts from about 4,800 NLSY97 respondents. The second phase will produce constructed variables and data files for public dissemination. These constructed variables are essential to stimulate wide use of the postsecondary education data. In addition to producing public access data, investigators will conduct workshops in a number of settings and provide detailed documentation to introduce the data to multidisciplinary users in both research and applied settings, and encourage their use.