Analysis of National Education Longitudinal Studies Data

正在进行一项为期四年的研究计划， 实现两个非凡教育的分析潜力 数据集：高中及以上和国家教育 1988年的纵向研究。综合来看，这两个数据集 构成了最广泛，最丰富的信息体， 对美国青年教育状况的影响 美国的中学。预定的研究计划是 旨在促进社会科学对这些信息的利用 通过一套相互关联的实质性和方法性的 这些调查将在一个可比的和完整的 时尚，检查高中毕业生的学习经验 分别于1972年、1980年、1982年、1988年和1992年毕业。 研究的概念框架被假定为一个 互动系统中，学生的学习经验， 结果受到相互关系网的影响， 教师的教育活动，学生的作文 和社会组织的教室，行政 高中的政策和结构，以及 家长社区的学生和教师。试图 解开网络的束缚，揭示潜在的过程 将通过使用复杂的统计建模来制作 有望产生实质性收益的程序 一个基本的社会科学的种类，以及改善 可用于正规学校教育政策相关研究的指标。 该研究包括设计和 实施数据库管理系统， 扩大现有和未来的纵向教育 数据集，改善对越来越多的 基于纵向教育调查的统计结果， 对与数据相关的出版物进行书目控制 从这些调查中得出，并将所有这些信息提供给 适合现代计算的媒体中的数据的未来用户 环境.这项研究的资金由 教育部除了国家科学 基金会

A four-year program of research is being undertaken to realize the analytic potential of two extraordinary education datasets: High School and Beyond and the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988. Taken together, these two datasets constitute the most extensive, richest body of information we have on the educational status of America's youth in relation to America's secondary schools. The scheduled program of research is intended to advance the social science use of this information through an interrelated set of substantive and methodological investigations which will, in a comparable and integral fashion, examine the learning experiences of high school seniors graduating in the years 1972, 1980, 1982, 1988, and 1992. The conceptual framework for the research is posited as an interactive system in which students' learning experiences and outcomes are affected by a web of reciprocal relationships among the educational activities of teachers, the student composition and social organization of classrooms, the administrative policies and structures of high schools, and the relationships of the parental community to both students and teachers. Attempts to disentangle strands of the web and uncover underlying processes will be made by use of sophisticated statistical modeling procedures which hold the promise of producing substantive gains of a basic social scientific kind as well as improving the metrics available for policy-related studies of formal schooling. The research includes provisions for devising and implementing a database management system that will organize and widen access to existing and forthcoming educational longitudinal datasets, improve access to and management of the growing body of statistical findings based upon longitudinal educational surveys, gain bibliographic control over publications related to data derived from such surveys, and make all of this available to future users of the data in media appropriate to modern computing environments. Funding for the research is being furnished by the Department of Education in addition to the National Science Foundation.