City: Large: Territory inside an urbanized area and inside a principal city with population of 250,000 or more City: Midsize: Territory inside an urbanized area and inside a principal city with popula [..]

The number of students within an assessed grade.

The High School Transcript Study reports credits earned for three types of courses: core academic, other academic and, other courses.

Used to define minority school status, historically disadvantaged minorities include Black students and Hispanic students.

Westat field staff member hired to coordinate all NAEP field activities with the State Departments of Education and the Westat home office staff.

The group of students of interest in an analysis of differential item functioning; often this is a group of students considered to be in the minority.

A method of achieving the benefits of stratification often used in conjunction with systematic sampling. The sampling frame is sorted with respect to one or more stratification variables but is not ex [..]

A measure of the level of historically disadvantaged minority student groups being served by schools participating in the High School Transcript Study. Low minority schools have less than 5 percent di [..]

One systematic ordering of all the booklets in the spiral.

See NAEP State Coordinator.