...data drawn from national or multistate populations. Most of the reports discussed below use either the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS-72) or follow-up studies from the American Council on Education's (ACE) annual surveys of first-time full-time...

...of Previous Studies Several investigations of the quality of student questionnaire data obtained in the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS-72) have been conducted. The report of the results of one of these investigations (Conger et al., 1976)...

...public by the summer of 1969. Mr. Porter: What are the alms of this study? Mr. Finn: NELS:88 joins the National Longitudinal Study of the High School...of 1972 (NLS-72) and High School and Beyond (HS&B) as the third in a series of longitudinal studies sponsored by the Center for Statistics. These studies...

...(Cavin, 1986; Murnane, in press). -* j2 t Some potential for such studies already exists, using data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS72) and the | ~ =" data base of the High School and Beyond Survey. A special supplement to the NLS72 fifth...

...Data and Empirical Results The formal statistical analysis in this paper is based on data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS72). The survey was begun in 1972 to obtain information about background characteristics, high school experiences,...

...that would help us explain the consequences of choice and circumstance. With this reasoning was born the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS-72). In this year of 1991, there is no other reference point quite like it. There is no group as large (22,650)...

...data on a state-by-state level. In 1992, state-level assessments were conducted in 4th and 8th grade mathematics and 4th grade reading. Information from...of 1972 (NLS-72) and High School and Beyond (HS&B), surveyed high school seniors (and sophomores in HS&B) through high school, postsecondary education,...

...the New Design: The NAEP 1988 Technical Report (Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service, 1990). the High School Class of 1972 (NLS-72) and High School and Beyond (HS&B). The base-year survey described the eighth-grade experiences of approximately 25,000 participants and...

...while financial aid is important, changes in tuition are more important. Manski and Wise (1983) use the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS72), a survey of high school seniors in 1972, to simulate the effects of federal aid (the Basic Educational...

...precisely the opposite. "4 The most telling evidence of this unhappy paradox comes from the archive of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS-72). There are dozens of stories in these records, but the most stunning is that of the women. 1. Thesis...