A Future for the National Education Longitudinal Program

Autor/inn/en	Schneider, Barbara; Saw, Guan; Broda, Michael
Titel	A Future for the National Education Longitudinal Program
Quelle	In: AERA Open, 2 (2016) 2, (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2332-8584
Schlagwörter	Longitudinal Studies; Educational Research; Program Descriptions; Educational Policy; Program Effectiveness; Program Improvement; Expertise; Sampling; Data Collection; Field Studies; Children; Surveys; Postsecondary Education; National Competency Tests; Equal Education; Racial Differences; Achievement Gap; College Readiness; Student Characteristics; Educational Benefits; Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey; Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study; National Assessment of Educational Progress + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Expert appraisal; Data capture; Datensammlung; Praxisforschung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Rassenunterschied; Bildungsertrag
Abstract	Forty years ago, the National Center for Education Statistics initiated the national longitudinal studies program in response to congressional concern for policy-relevant information on school-to-work transitions. This program has grown substantially, and not unexpectedly, questions have arisen about its usefulness and present operation. This essay briefly describes the scope of the program and its benefits for informing knowledge and policy, including (a) racial and socioeconomic inequalities and their influence on the academic and social development of student subgroups, (b) differential schooling experiences and their impact on children's later educational and occupational outcomes, and (c) new methods for estimating statistical inferences. Despite these benefits, the program needs serious modification especially with respect to its organization and design features. Several substantive and methodological recommendations are made for improving the program's effectiveness, including widening technical expertise; reframing sample populations; adjusting intervals for data collections; embedding experiments and conducting field studies; linking longitudinal panels with other federal, state, and local collections; and developing new measures and forms of delivery. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01