1994 NAEP High School Transcript Study

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.