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The Census
Bureau http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/education.html
has a beautifully uncluttered page that lists the major areas of education related
statistics they can provide. Although one would expect the Census Bureau's data
to be individually focused, there is also some school and school district data
here. For those interested in international statistics, the U.S. Census has
compiled a page with links for the all of the national statistical agencies:
http://www.census.gov/main/www/stat_int.html
(Last checked 2/26/08)
The
Michigan Department of Education
(http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,1607,7-140-5235_6539---,00.html) has
an information rich Web site. Most of the statistical analyses researchers will
need are loaded and readily available.
(Last checked 2/26/08)
The U.S. Department of Education has posted a list of
State Departments of Education
(http://www.ed.gov/Programs/bastmp/SEA.htm) for all fifty states.
(Last checked 2/25/08)
The National Center for Education Statistics
(http://nces.ed.gov), within the U.S.
Department of Education (http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml)
makes a great deal of statistical information available. Their server includes
.PDF files for the complete text of several statistical publications including;
Condition of Education, Digest of Education Statistics, and Youth
Indicators. Look under Survey and
Program Areas (http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/)
for major data sets (IPEDS, NEAP, etc.). The TIMSS
(Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) (http://nces.ed.gov/timss/)
is another highlight. New College
Navigator is aimed at students exploring college options but has some
good basic statistics on specific institutions.
(Last checked 2/26/08))
The OECD Education Database
(http://www.oecd.org/education/database)
provides internationally comparable data on key aspects of the education systems.
On-line access features data on: educational finance, students enrolled, new
entrants to a level of education, graduates, and educational personnel.
(Last checked 2/25/08)
UNESCO
Institute for Statistics http://www.uis.unesco.org/ev_en.php?ID=2867_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC
contains global and internationally comparable statistics on education, science,
technology, culture and communication. See the "Core Theme" of education
in the column on the left.
(Last checked 2/5/07)
WebCASPAR http://caspar.nsf.gov/
provides easy access to a large body of statistical data resources for science
and engineering (S&E) at U.S. academic institutions. WebCASPAR emphasizes S&E,
but its data resources also provide information on non-S&E fields and higher
education in general.
(Last checked 2/23/08)
The World
Data on Education
(http://www.ibe.unesco.org/countries/WDE/WorldDataE.htm) from the UNESCO
International Bureau of Education (http://www.ibe.unesco.org/)
provides data for international comparison. Data contained in the country by
country profiles have been organized on the basis of a common structure so as
to facilitate the searching, analysing and systematizing of available information.
(Last checked 2/25/08)
Education
Week's Quality Counts Contains state by state data on education quality.
See also the Technology
Counts
(Last checked 1/9/08)
Faculty Salaries (http://chronicle.com/stats/aaup/)
AAUP and the Chronicle of Higher Education provide information on faculty salaries
by rank at more than 1,400 institutions. The Chronicle covers faculty salaries
annually, but appears not to have pulled this information together on this part
of their website since 2002.
(Last checked 2/25/08)
Grapevine (http://www.grapevine.ilstu.edu/)
A national database of tax support for higher education hosted by the Illinois
State University College of Education. Individual state reports include current
fiscal year and previous fiscal year state tax appropriations for operating
expenses and a 50-state summary table showing state totals for the current year,
the previous two years, a ten-year figure, and percentages of change over one,
two, and ten years.
(Last checked 2/28/08)
Higher Education Research
Institute (HERI) (http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/index.php)
HERI is based in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at UCLA.
Its web site provides information from surveys of faculty and students on such
topics as attitudes toward technology, service learning and the college experience.
The Institute's holdings include more than a hundred datasets that are regularly
maintained for analysis of postsecondary education.
(Last checked 2/25/08)
Inter-University
Consotium for Political and Social Research (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/access/subject.html)
ICPSR maintains and provides access to an archive of social science data for
research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate
effective data use. In addition, ICPSR provides user support to assist researchers
in identifying relevant data for analysis and in conducting their research projects.
(Last checked 2/25/08)
NationMaster.com
(http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php)
Created by Rapid Intelligence, a web tech company based in Sydney, Australia.
Allows users to generate graphs based on numerical data extracted from the CIA
Factbook and other statistical sources.. All statistics on this site are
cited.
(Last checked 2/20/08)
National Survey of
Student Engagement (http://nsse.iub.edu/html/annual_reports.cfm)
The National Survey of Student Engagement(NSSE) is designed to obtain, on an
annual basis, information from scores of colleges and universities nationwide
about student participation in programs and activities that institutions provide
for their learning and personal development. The results will provide an estimate
of how undergraduates spend their time and what they gain from attending college.
(Last checked 2/26/08)
SchoolMatters (http://www.schoolmatters.com/)
Standard & Poor’s School Evaluation Service provides free access to state by
state data about schools and written analytical reports. SES has also developed
the Performance Cost Index, to help measure schools' return on resources. No
registration is required.
(Last checked 2/25/08)
SchoolDataDirect (http://www.schooldatadirect.org/)
An online service of the State Education Data Center, the SEDC provides public
education data focuses on two work strands: (1) serving as a national advocacy
leader for quality education data collection, standards, and use; and (2) serving
as the nation's provider of a free, easy-to-use website featuring state education
data and analytic tools.
(Last checked 4/10/08)
Statistical Resources
on the Web (http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html)
The University of Michigan Documents Center has an excellent statistical resources
information site. Education is one of 24 broad categories offered.
(Last checked 2/25/08)
Teacher Rules, Roles and Rights
(http://www.nctq.org/cb/ ) National
Council on Teacher Quality's online research portal containing data on collective
bargaining agreements, board policies, and teacher handbooks from the nation's
50 largest school districts. The database provides answers to over 300 questions,
ranging from salary and benefits to how a teacher gets evaluated or download
the full text of a teacher contract, just the salary schedule, even the school
calendar.
(Last checked 2/26/08)
Bruce Weaver's
Page of Statistics Resources (http://www.angelfire.com/wv/bwhomedir/stats.html)
Not much information here about Bruce or why he posts and updates the list,
but there is a very long list of useful links..
(Last checked 2/25/08)
Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations
(http://statpages.org/)
This site, created and maintained by John C. Pezzullo, contains links to interactive
web pages that perform statistical calculations. Together they comprise a powerful,
conveniently-accessible, and free multi-platform statistical software package.
This page also contains links to several web-based statistical textbooks.
(Last checked 2/25/08)
Enrollment and
Term End Reports The Registrar's Office posts statistics about students
and their grades. Information available back to 1996.
(Last checked 2/25/08)
Office of Planning and
Budgets InfoPages The InfoPages are a complex database of information
about the university budget, faculty, courses, degrees conferred, students and
credit hours.
(Last checked 2/25/08)
The Federal government is moving to electronic format for most of its data and informational products. Especially in the late 1990's, MSU Libraries received many CD-Rom's as a result of our depository status. All the items listed here are available at the Main Library Government Documents
Education Statistics on Disk
ED 1.334/2:ST2/(year)
Compilation of data from most major NCES compendia including The Digest of
Education Statistics, 1996, The Condition of Education, 1996, Projections
of Education Statistics to the Year 2006, Youth Indicators, State Comparisons
of Education Statistics: 1969-70 to 1993-94, 120 Years of American Education:
A Statistical Portrait, and Education in States and Nations.
Library has 1994 and 1996.
Common Core of Data 1987-
ED 1.334/2: C73 [annual]
The primary database on elementary and secondary education containing data that
are comparable across all states.
Library has 1987 thru 1998.
Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study Second Followup
ED 1.334/2: P84/CD
Provides data about education progress, attainment as an undergraduate, entry
into graduate school, employment during and after college, household formation,
and civic participation.
High
School & Beyond
ED 1.334/2:H53/2/CD
The HS&B describes the activities of seniors and sophomores as they progressed
through high school, postsecondary education, and into the workplace. The data
span 1980 through 1992 and include parent, teacher, high school transcript,
student financial aid records, and college transcripts in addition to student
questionnaires.
Integrated
Postsecondary Education Data System - (IPEDS)
ED 1.334/4: [annual]
The CDs contain selected postsecondary institutional level data on enrollments,
tuitions, program completions, faculty salaries and financing.
Library has: 1990-1996.
National
Education Longitudinal Study
ED 1.334/2: ED8/
NELS is a nationally representative study of eighth grade students in public
and private schools.
Beginning with an 8th grade cohort in 1988, NELS:88 provides trend data about
critical transitions experienced by young people as they develop, attend school,
and embark on their careers. Data were collected from students and their parents,
teachers, and high school principals and from existing school records such as
high school transcripts. Cognitive tests (math, science, reading, and history)
were administered during the base year (1988), first follow up (1990), and
second follow up (1992). Third follow up data collected in 1994. All dropouts
were retained in the study.
National
Household Education Survey
1991: Adult Education / Early Childhood Education
1993: School Readiness/School Safety and Discipline
1995: Adult Education/ Early Childhood Program Participation
1996: Households and Library/Parent and Family Involvement in Education and
Civic Involvement/Youth Civic Involvement/ Adult Civic Involvement
ED 1.334/5:
The titles of the various surveys are descriptive of content.
National
Postsecondary Student Aid Study:
ED1.333: [annual]
NPSAS is a comprehensive study that examines how students and their families
pay for postsecondary education. It includes nationally representative samples
of undergraduates, graduate and first-professional students; students attending
public and private less-than-2-year institutions, community colleges, 4-year
colleges, and major universities. Students who receive financial aid as well
as those who do not receive financial aid participate in NPSAS.
Library has: 1986-1993
Education is a primary function of most governments. Listed here are several resources largely devoted to education, but other, more general publications will also be helpful. Locations and call numbers refer to the Michigan State University Main Library.
Michigan K-12 School Districts Ranked By Selected Financial
Data
Michigan Documents- LB 2826
.M5 A36 (Printed
version ceased with 1992/93 edition, still published online)
The title of this booklet is fairly descriptive of contents. The arrangement is
alphabetic by county and school district, but a numerical rank is given for most
of the financial data listed.
Digest
Of Education Statistics
Main Library Reference/ ASK AT DESK- ED
1.326:
Premier annual source for educational statistics, pulls together information
from a variety of public and private sources; includes national data, sometimes
broken down by state, on every level of education, international trends, vocational
education, employees, finances, etc. Many tables offer data for several years.
The Condition
Of Education
Main Library Reference/ ASK AT DESK- ED
1.109:
Unlike most annual statistical compilations, this title does not cover the same
material each year. "Issues in Focus," topical, in-depth statistical essays,
and "Indicators," briefer statistical summaries, change from year to year. Contains
charts and text in addition to tables. Provides statistics on public policy
issues in education: access, participation, economic and other outcomes, management,
human resources, etc.
Projections
Of Education Statistics To 2008 (to 2013 in electronic version,
seem to have stopped publishing in paper)
Main Library Closed Reference/ASK AT DESK - ED
1.120:2008
Projections on enrollment, expenditures, salaries, number of graduates, number of
teachers, etc. Gives three different scenarios for much of the data to provide a
range. Many projections are both national and by state.
MDR's School Directory [by state]
Michigan Edition
Main Library Reference - L
903 .M5 C15
Marketing data for school districts and individual schools. Contains names
of administrative personnel and information about special programs,
financial resources and existing equipment.
Education
At A Glance: Oecd Indicators
Government Documents, International Docs- LB
2846 .E247 (IIS fiche #2300-S93)
Covering only OECD countries, these volumes contain comparative data on a number
of education related topics. While expected basics of enrollment and finances
are here there are also results of opinion surveys, and employment data.
Key Data On Education In The European Union
Government Documents, International Docs- LA
620 .K48
This book focuses on data for countries in the European Union. It is divided into
two parts, the first a statistical overview, the second an in-depth report, in the
current edition on teachers. Both sections have a large number of color maps and
graphs.
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