Newsgroups: bit.listserv.erl-l
Date:         Sun, 12 Apr 1992 19:25:00 CDT
From:         P30JWP1@NIU.BITNET
Subject:      OERI: High school & postsec. data (130 lines)

The following is provided by the Office of Educational Research
and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education.  Please feel
welcome to distribute.


                 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
        OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT
           NATIONAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION STATISTICS

       NCES DATA AVAILABLE ON CD-ROM FOR THE FIRST TIME

Data from the High School and Beyond (HS&B) longitudinal study
and two National Postsecondary Student Aid Studies (NPSAS) are
now available on CD-ROM.  These disks represent the first of
many to be produced by the National Center for Education
Statistics.

The HS&B data include information from the base year and the
1982, 1984, and 1986 followup surveys of nationally
representative sample of 1980 public and private high school
sophomores and seniors.  The disk holds all questionnaire and
testing data for both cohorts.  In addition, it has school
data from principals in 1980 and 1982, postsecondary spells of
attendance, postsecondary institution characteristics, and
student financial aid.  Sophomore-only data include:  parent
responses, high school friends, language, high school
transcripts, and postsecondary transcripts.

The NPSAS studies were carried out in school years 1986-87 and
1989-90 and examine how students and their families pay for
postsecondary education.  NPSAS:90 data can be compared with
NPSAS:87 data. NPSAS collected in-school data from
institutional (financial aid office, admission, and registrar)
records, a student survey, and a parent survey. It also
included students who did not receive student financial aid.
The students, full-and part-time from all academic levels,
attended public and private, not-for-profit and for-profit,
less than 2-year, 2-year, and 4-year institutions.

NPSAS:87 were collected from 43,176 students and from the
parents of about 10,000 younger, dependent, unaided students.
The CD-ROM also has out-of-school data about 8,223 recipients
of Guaranteed Student Loans (now Stafford Loans), which
included state records, questionnaire responses, and
transcripts.

NPSAS:90 collected data on more than 61,000 undergraduate and
graduate students and from the parents of about 16,000
younger, dependent, unaided students.

Both NPSAS CD-ROMs include table generation systems for
undergraduate (in-school) students.  NPSAS:90 has table
generation systems for graduate and first-professional
students, as well.  Users may select rows, columns, and
subgroups desired for tables from lists of over 200 variables.
Continuous variables, such as income, may be recorded into
categories for rows, column percentages, or subgroup
definition.  Output of tables is compatible with most
spreadsheet software.

All three disks have electronic codebooks, with codes, labels,
frequencies, and item wording, and software to create fully
labeled SPSS-PC codes.  Users may select desired variables
using these electronic codebooks.  The ISO compact disks are
structured to work within MS-DOS on an IBM-compatible computer
with 20 megabytes or more of free hard-disk storage space.

The CD-ROM data disks are available for $23 a disk from New
Orders, Superintendent of Documents.  P.O. Box 371954,
Pittsburgh, PA  15250-7954.  The stock numbers are as follows:

065-000-00470-4          High School and Beyond
065-000-00471-2          National Postsecondary Student Aid
                         Study, 1986-87
065-000-00472-1          National Postsecondary Student Aid
                         Study, 1989-90

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