DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02256.v1
title: National Assessment of Educational Progress: 1987 High School Transcript Study
title: Version 1

description: The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is a
federally-funded, ongoing, periodic assessment of educational
achievement in the various subject areas and disciplines taught in the
nation's schools. Since 1969, NAEP has gathered information about
levels of educational achievement of 9-, 13-, and 17-year-olds across
the country. In the fall of 1987, high school transcripts were
collected from 34,140 students attending 433 schools that had
previously been sampled for the National Assessment of Educational
Progress (NAEP) in 1986. The sample of students for the transcript
study included both handicapped and nonhandicapped students who in
1985-1986 were enrolled in the 11th grade and/or were 17 years old.
Approximately half of the sampled students had participated in NAEP
assessments in 1986. The 1987 High School Transcript Study also
collected school-level information such as course lists, graduation
requirements, and the definition of units of credit and
grades. Student information included sex, grade level, age, graduation
status, and race/ethnicity. The following additional information was
gathered for handicapped students: handicapping condition, severity of
cognitive, psychosocial, and physical limitation, reading and
mathematics grade level (teacher estimate), placement in mainstream,
resource, and self-contained classes, and receipt of selected
services.
description: A nationally representative sample of 491 secondary
 schools selected for the 1986 National Assessment of Educational
 Progress, Grade 11/Age 17 students, of which 438 schools agreed to
 participate and 433 eventually provided transcripts. Within these
 schools, students were selected for the Transcript Study according to
 three categories: (1) Students who were sampled for the 1986 NAEP, (2)
 a newly drawn sample of students who were in the 11th grade in spring
 1986, and (3) all of the handicapped students in the sample schools
 who were in the eligible age/grade. Two distinct sets of sampling
 procedures were used within schools, depending upon whether schools
 had retained the materials used in sampling and assessing students in
 the 1986 NAEP. In both types of schools, the sample included all
 handicapped students who were in the 11th grade and/or were 17 years
 old in 1985-1986. A handicapped student was defined as one who had had
 an IEP (Individualized Educational Program), and was not classified as
"gifted," in 1985-1986.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Course Code Data
DS2: Course Offering Data
DS3: School-Level Data
DS4: Student-Level Data
DS5: Special Education Student Data
DS6: Transcript Data
description: Students, both handicapped and nonhandicapped, who were
enrolled in the 11th grade and/or were 17 years old.
description: The codebook and data collection instruments are
provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format
was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using
PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on
how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR
Website.