1998 NAEP High School Transcript Study

The 1998 High School Transcript Study (HSTS) was designed to allow an analysis of the coursetaking patterns of students who graduated from American public and nonpublic high schools in 1998. The High School Transcript Study sampled almost 29,000 students from 264 schools. Some 264 original/substitute schools participated in the HSTS survey, of which 241 were originally sampled. Of the 264 participating schools, both public and nonpublic schools, 232 schools cooperated with both HSTS and NAEP and the links for the students were maintained, 10 schools cooperated with HSTS and NAEP but the links for the students were not maintained, and 22 schools cooperated with HSTS but not with NAEP.

The NAEP assessments were administered from January through April 1998, and schools were asked to retain the NAEP administration schedules until the HSTS data collection in the summer and fall of 1998. For the 1998 HSTS, NAEP proficiency estimates of reading, writing, and civics were provided. Of the 28,764 students in the sample, 25,248 actually graduated and 3,328 did not. Of the remaining 188 students, 174 were imputed as graduates and 14 were not. Thus, from the 25,422 graduates 24,218 transcripts were collected and processed. Detailed notes on the 1998 sample design found at https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2001477.

1998 HSTS was linked to the 1998 NAEP Civics Data File, the 1998 NAEP Reading Data File, and the 1998 NAEP Writing Data File. For more information, see The 1998 High School Transcript Study User's Guide and Technical Report at https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2001477