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Description & Citation--Study No. 6389

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:6389
 
Title:Equality of Educational Opportunity (COLEMAN) Study (EEOS), 1966
 
Principal Investigator(s):James S. Coleman, Johns Hopkins University
 
Funding Agency:United States Department of Education.
 
Bibliographic Citation:Coleman, James S. EQUALITY OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY (COLEMAN) STUDY (EEOS), 1966 [Computer file]. ICPSR06389-v3. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education/National Center for Education Statistics [producer], 1999. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-04-27.
 

Scope of Study

Summary:The Equality of Educational Opportunity Study (EEOS), also known as the "Coleman Study," was commissioned by the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1966 to assess the availability of equal educational opportunities to children of different race, color, religion, and national origin. This study was conducted in response to provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and serves as an example of the use of a social survey as an instrument of national policy-making. The EEOS consists of test scores and questionnaire responses obtained from first-, third-, sixth-, ninth-, and twelfth-grade students, and questionnaire responses from teachers and principals. These data were obtained from a national sample of schools in the United States. Data on students include age, gender, race and ethnic identity, socioeconomic background, attitudes toward learning, education and career goals, and racial attitudes. Scores on teacher-administered standardized academic tests are also included. These scores reflect performance on tests assessing ability and achievement in verbal skills, nonverbal associations, reading comprehension, and mathematics. Data on teachers and principals include academic discipline, assessment of verbal facility, salary, education and teaching experience, and attitudes toward race.
 
Subject Term(s):academic ability, academic achievement, accreditation (institutions), administration, after school programs, behavior problems, certification, counseling, curriculum, demographics, education, educational assessment, educational environment, educational planning, educational policy, educational programs, experience, friendships, home environment, household composition, life plans, memberships, opinions, race, racial attitudes, racial integration, schools, school busing, self concept, social attitudes, social behavior, socioeconomic status, special needs students, students, teachers, testing and measurement, wages and salaries
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:1966
 
Date(s) of Collection:1966
 
Unit of Observation:individual
 
Universe:Public schools in the United States and the District of Columbia.
 
Data Type:survey data, and administrative records data
 
Data Collection Notes:(1) Questionnaire responses should be read as alphabetic characters. (2) A comma-separated values (CSV) file (USOE Codes) and associated codebook have been added to the restricted portion of this collection. This CSV file provides a crosswalk between the USOE school codes in the confidential version of this study and Census geographic units.
 

Methodology

Sample:National stratified random sample.
 
Data Source:Teacher-administered standardized academic tests and self-enumerated questionnaires
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as LRECL, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Restrictions:This data collection may not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited. To ensure confidentiality, certain identifying variables are not available in the public-use versions. Restricted-use versions containing these variables are available through alternate procedures. To obtain the restricted data files, researchers must agree to the terms and conditions of a Restricted Data Use Agreement in accordance with existing ICPSR servicing policies.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1995-06-05
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2007-04-27.
 
  2007-04-27 - A comma-separated values (CSV) file (USOE Codes) and associated codebook have been added to the restricted portion of this collection.
 
  2006-01-18 - Files CB6389AP.ALL.PDF and CB6839.ALL.PDF were removed from any previous datasets and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
 
  2000-08-04 - Two additional documentation files have been provided by NCES, a study report and a supplemental appendix, which have been converted to Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
 
  2000-03-21 - Blanks at the end of the records in Part 7, Principal Data, have been removed, resulting in a record length of 300 characters. In addition, SAS data definition statements have been produced to accompany this collection, along with a machine-readable codebook and data collection instruments in one PDF file. Also, the documentation now accurately reflects the number of variables in each file.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: First-Grade Data
  • DS2: Third-Grade Data
  • DS3: Sixth-Grade Data
  • DS4: Ninth-Grade Data
  • DS5: Twelfth-Grade Data
  • DS6: Teacher Data
  • DS7: Principal Data
  • DS8: USOE Codes (Restricted Only)
 

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