Report Working paper

Measuring School Reform: Recommendations for Future SASS Data Collection

NCES
Author(s):
Ellen M. Pechman, Eileen M. O'Brien, and Jessica K. Wodatch (Policy Studies Associates, Inc.)
Publication date:
April 1997
Survey areas:
SASS - Schools and Staffing Survey
Publication number:
NCES 9712

Summary

This paper addresses the potential of NCES to measure education reforms in the United States through SASS. The overarching questions are: How can SASS best measure school reform? Should it measure the implementation of the effects of school reform? What are the elements of school reform that would best serve the needs of state and federal policymakers?

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