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2000 NAEP High School Transcript Study
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The 2000 High School Transcript Study (HSTS) was conducted by Westat for the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics. This study provides the Department of Education and other educational policymakers with information regarding current course offerings and students’ coursetaking patterns in the nation’s secondary schools. Since similar studies were conducted on the coursetaking patterns of 1982, 1987, 1990, 1994, and 1998 graduates, one research objective was to study changes in these patterns. Another research objective was to compare coursetaking patterns to study results on the 2000 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 nationwide information about the levels of educational achievement of elementary and secondary school students.
Detailed Methodology
The HSTS 2000 was conducted with a nationally representative sample of 20,931 high school graduates from 277 schools (both public and nonpublic). Twelfth-grade students, whose transcript indicated that they graduated between January 1, 2000, and October 31, 2000, the final date of data collection, were included in the study. Approximately 96 percent of sampled students in the HSTS 2000 transcript study were enrolled in schools that participated in the NAEP assessments. The remaining 4 percent were enrolled in schools that were sampled for NAEP but declined to participate. These schools, however, did participate in the HSTS. The school response rate for the HSTS 2000 was 80.8 percent, while the student response rate was 98.9 percent. Detailed notes on the 2000 sample design found at https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005483.
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For more information see the The 2000 High School Transcript Study User's Guide and Technical Report at https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005483.