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1987 NAEP High School Transcript Study
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The National Assessment of Educational Progress (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 levels of educational achievement of 9-, 13-, and 17-year-olds across the country. In the fall of 1987, high school transcripts were collected from 34,140 students attending 433 schools that had previously been sampled for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in 1986. The sample of students for the transcript study included both handicapped and nonhandicapped students who in 1985-1986 were enrolled in the 11th grade and/or were 17 years old. Approximately half of the sampled students had participated in NAEP assessments in 1986. The 1987 High School Transcript Study also collected school-level information such as course lists, graduation requirements, and the definition of units of credit and grades. Student information included sex, grade level, age, graduation status, and race/ethnicity.
Detailed Methodology
The 1987 High School Transcript Study collected over 34,000 high school transcripts from non-handicapped and handicapped students using the nationally representative sample of 434 schools selected for the 1986 NAEP Grade 11/Age 17 assessment. For 202 of the NAEP schools, the transcripts were requested for students who were sampled for the 1986 NAEP assessment. For the other 232 schools who were unable to identify who had been sampled or assessed for NAEP, a new sample was drawn from the students who were in the eleventh grade during the spring of 1986. Additionally, high school transcripts were collected for all handicapped students who were in the eleventh grade and/or 17 years of age in the 1985-1986 school year. A handicapped student was defined as a student who had an Individualized Educational Program (IEP) and was not classified as “gifted.” The handicapped transcripts were collected for The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) to meet its reporting mandate under the Education of the Handicapped Act.
More information about the 1987 HSTS school and student sampling plans can be found in the 1987 High School Transcript Study Technical Report (Thorne and Hayward, 1989). The report was prepared and submitted for the National Center of Education Statistics in the U.S. Department of Education, but is not available currently in an electronic format.
For more information refer to https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/2256/versions/V1