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Title: Improving the NAEP Data For Policy Analysis
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Grissmer, David W. Flanagan, Ann. |
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Improving the NAEP Data For Policy Analysis Working Paper, Washington DC: National Center for Educational Statistics, 1997. Also: http://books.nap.edu/books/0309062853/html/45.html#pagetop Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: U.S. Department of Education Keyword(s): Children, Academic Development; Education; Family Influences; Longitudinal Data Sets; Longitudinal Surveys; National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP); National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) Grissmer and Flanagan combined information from several federal databases to help explore student performance data, define problems areas for close examination, and stimulate discussion of possible solutions. They investigated potential sources of improved performance by combining NAEP information with census data, information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and from the National Education Longitudinal Study. They studied academic gains in relation to data on changing family characteristics, changed education and social policies, and increased investment. Like other analysts, Grissmer and Flanagan found a strong relationship between family variables and academic performance. Most important, however, they found that class size and student/teacher ratio variables bore s lesser but still strong relationship to academic performance, a finding that ran counter to earlier, much publicized research. The smaller class sizes were funded by compensatory educational monies available to minority students and schools during the time period studied. |
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Grissmer, David W. and Ann. Flanagan. "Improving the NAEP Data For Policy Analysis." Working Paper, Washington DC: National Center for Educational Statistics, 1997. |