The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), first fielded in 1987-88, represented a major redesign of the NCES elementary and secondary data collection, and it has proved to be a successful one. This paper focuses on one aspect of the survey's design, survey depth. It addresses three major questions: (1) At what level should estimates be provided? Are state- and affiliation-level estimates useful enough to justify the large sample size they require? Are the oversampled groups of schools and teachers still important to single out? (2) From whom should data be collected? Should any new categories of respondents be added to the survey? and (3) How much data can reasonably be collected from each respondent? What options are available to expand data collection without overburdening respondents?
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