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1990 NAEP High School Transcript Study
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The 1990 High School Transcript Study (HSTS) was conducted by Westat, Inc. for the U.S. Department of Education's. This study provides the Department of Education and other educational policymakers with information regarding current course offerings and students' course-taking patterns in the nation's secondary schools. Since similar studies were conducted of course-taking patterns of 1982, and 1987 graduates, one research objective was to study changes in these patterns. Another research objective was to compare course-taking patterns to study results on the 1990 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). NAEP is a Federally-funded, ongoing, periodic assessment of educational achievement in the various subject areas and disciplines taught in the nation's schools. Since 1969, NAEP has gathered information about the levels of educational achievement of 9-, 13-, and 17-year-old students across the country.
Detailed Methodology
The 1990 High School Transcript Study collected over 21,000 high school transcripts from students who graduated from U.S. high schools in 1990. These transcripts came from the 330 schools that had been sampled for the NAEP Grade 12/Age 17 assessments in 1990. Approximately three-fourths of the sampled students participated in the 1990 NAEP assessments. Other students were specifically sampled for the HSTS because either the schools declined to participate in NAEP but did participate in HSTS or the schools participated in NAEP but did not retain their lists of assessed students. Only students whose transcripts indicated that they graduates from high school between January 1, 1990 and December 31, 1990 were included in the study.
More information about the 1990 HSTS school and student sampling plans can be found in The 1990 High School Transcript Study Technical Report (Legum et al., 1993). The report was prepared and submitted for the National Center of Education Statistics in the U.S. Department of Education and assigned the document code NCES 93-117, but is not available currently in an electronic format.
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For more information see the USER'S MANUAL: 1990 High School Transcript Study at https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=93416. Not available online.