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Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS)

The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) In the mid-1980's, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) conducted a number of separate surveys concerning schools and school personnel. In 1985, NCES undertook a critical review of its elementary and secondary school data system, identifying gaps in content and in design. As a result of this review, NCES redesigned the data system to emphasize teacher demand and shortage, teacher and administrator characteristics, school programs, and general conditions in schools. SASS also collects data on many topics, including principals' and teachers' perceptions of school climate and problems in their schools; teacher compensation; district hiring practices and basic characteristics of the student population. Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS)

FAQs

Q: At the NCES SASS training this summer, they said that AM isn't yet prepared to use BRR. Is that still the case? I've downloaded the software and read the documentation, but I can't tell.

A: AM Currently supports Balanced repeated replication and several jackknife replication methods. please see the documentation.

A: Unfortunately, currently the only way to get AM to calculate correlations with pair-wise deletion is to calculate each correlation separately.

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A: You will find some information and futher citations in the online help. See Tools/Variance Estimation/Balanced Repeated Replication