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Download full textCox, Shawna; Parmer, Randall; Strizek, Gregory; Thomas, Teresa – National Center for Education Statistics, 2017
The overall objective of the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) is to collect the information necessary for a comprehensive picture of elementary and secondary education in the United States. The abundance of data collected permits detailed analyses of the characteristics of schools, principals, teachers, school libraries, and public school…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Elementary Secondary Education, Questionnaires, Public Schools
Tourkin, Steven; Thomas, Teresa; Swaim, Nancy; Cox, Shawna; Parmer, Randall; Jackson, Betty; Cole, Cornette; Zhang, Bei – National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) is conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on behalf of the United States Department of Education in order to collect extensive data on American public and private elementary and secondary schools. SASS provides data on the characteristics and qualifications of teachers and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, National Surveys, Public Schools, Private Schools
Robers, Simone; Zhang, Jijun; Truman, Jennifer – National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
Ensuring safer schools requires establishing good indicators of the current state of school crime and safety across the nation and regularly updating and monitoring these indicators. This is the aim of this report. This report is the thirteenth in a series of annual publications produced jointly by the National Center for Education Statistics…
Descriptors: Crime, School Safety, School Surveys, National Surveys
Gruber, Kerry J.; Rohr, Carol L.; Fondelier, Sharon E. – 1994
This volume is part of a set intended to document the data collection of the 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). Volume 1 provides the essential background information for the survey, and Volume 4 is the restricted use codebook for the SASS Bureau of Indian Affairs data. Volume 2 is the restricted-use codebook for the survey, and this…
Descriptors: Coding, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education
Whitener, Summer D.; Gruber, Kerry J.; Rohr, Carol L.; Fondelier, Sharon E. – 1999
The Teacher Followup Survey (TFS) is a 1-year followup of a sample of teachers who were originally selected for the Teacher Questionnaire of the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) of the National Center for Education Statistics. There have been three data cycles for the SASS and three TFS versions. This data file user's manual enables the user to…
Descriptors: Coding, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Followup Studies
Whitener, Summer D.; Gruber, Kerry J.; Rohr, Carol; Fondelier, Sharon – 1998
The Teacher Followup Survey (TFS) is a 1-year follow-up of a sample of teachers who were originally selected for the Teacher Questionnaire in the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), an integrated set of surveys of public and private schools. There have been three data cycles for the SASS, and three for the TFS. The data in this report links…
Descriptors: Coding, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Followup Studies
Bushery, John; Schreiner, Irwin; Sebron, Gene – 1998
The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) is an integrated set of surveys that has been conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in 1987-88, 1990-91, and 1993-94. In each of those school years, the Census Bureau also conducted a reinterview of the administrators, schools, and teachers. This report…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Interviews
Mayer, Daniel P. – Education Statistics Quarterly, 2002
Discusses the importance of the fourth cycle of the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS; National Center for Education Statistics) and the data it offers about: (1) teacher supply and demand; (2) teacher and administrator preparation and qualifications; (3) schools as places for work and learning; and (4) implementation of school programs and…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, National Surveys, Program Implementation
Chaney, Bradford – 1994
A study was conducted to determine the best method for obtaining information on teachers' backgrounds for the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). Two alternative methodologies were compared: the collection of teachers' self-reports of their academic qualifications and the use of their college transcripts. While transcripts are assumed to provide…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Bias, Data Collection, Educational Attainment
Isaacs, Julia B.; Garet, Michael S.; Sherman, Joel D.; Cullen, Andrew; Phelps, Richard – 1999
This report discusses the possibility of expanding the resource and finance data to be collected as part of the 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The proposal under consideration, which is being field tested in the fall of 1998 and winter of 1999, has two major components. The…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditures
Royce, Daniel – 1994
Reinterviews were conducted to measure the response variance of selected questions from the 1991 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) administrator, school, and teacher questionnaires. Response variance measures one component of the nonsampling error in the data collected by a question, and it indicates how consistently respondents answer questions…
Descriptors: Administrators, Data Collection, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Henke, Robin R.; And Others – 1996
The National Center for Education Statistics recently released results of the 1993-94 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). SASS, an integrated survey of public and private schools, school districts, principals, and teachers, is the most comprehensive survey of the school work force and teacher supply and demand ever conducted in the United States.…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, Error of Measurement
McLaughlin, Don; And Others – 1995
This report is based on the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) of 1987-88 and 1990-91 and is designed to provide a broad picture of private schools in the United States. The SASS collects data on only a sample of private schools, but collects a much richer picture of each participating school than does the Private School Universe Survey, a…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Data Collection, Educational Objectives, Educational Research
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1996
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) conducts a unified set of surveys that facilitates comparison between public and private schools, school districts, and administrator data. The integrated set of surveys is called the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). A Teacher Followup Survey (TFS) is conducted a year after the SASS survey to…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Administration
Gruber, Kerry J.; And Others – 1996
The volumes in this User Manual document the data collection of the 1993-94 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). Researchers who are ready to access the data file may go directly to the codebooks for each survey (Volumes II and III for the Restricted-Use and Public-Use versions respectively). This manual focuses on survey documentation, describing…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education, Estimation (Mathematics)
