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1994 NAEP High School Transcript Study
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The 1994 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, 1987, and 1990 graduates, one research objective was to study changes in these patterns. In particular, the data from the 1994 study permit analysts to investigate the impact of the Core Curriculum recommended by the National Commission on Excellence in Education in 1983./1 Another research objective was to compare course-taking patterns to study results on the 1994 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.
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In the Summer and Fall of 1994, Westat collected high school transcripts from over 25,000 students who graduated from American high schools in 1994. These students attended 340 schools that were sampled for NAEP in 1994. The sample of schools was nationally representative of all schools in the United States, and the sample of students was representative of graduating seniors from each school. While the NAEP sample included students who were enrolled in the 12th grade at the time of the NAEP sampling, the transcript study included only those students whose transcripts indicated that they graduated between January 1, 1994 and November 21, 1994, the date the final transcripts were collected. Detailed notes on the 1994 sample design found at ch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=97262.
1994 HSTS was linked to the 1994 NAEP Geography Data File, the 1994 NAEP Reading Data File, and the 1994 NAEP History Data File. For more information, see The 1994 High School Transcript Study Technical Report at https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=97262