Description & Citation--Study No. 6389

• Bibliographic Description
• Scope of Study
• Methodology
• Access and Availability

Bibliographic Description

06389

Equality of Educational Opportunity (COLEMAN) Study (EEOS), 1966

Coleman, James S., Johns Hopkins University

United States Department of Education

Coleman, James S. Equality of Educational Opportunity (COLEMAN) Study (EEOS), 1966 [Computer file]. ICPSR06389-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-04-27. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06389.v3

Scope of Study

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.

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

United States

• 1966

• 1966

individual

Public schools in the United States and the District of Columbia.

survey data, and administrative records data

(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

National stratified random sample.

Teacher-administered standardized academic tests and self-enumerated questionnaires

All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

• Performed consistency checks.
• Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
• Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Access and Availability

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

1995-06-05

To ensure confidentiality, certain identifying variables are not available in the public-use versions. Restricted-use versions containing these variables are available. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete an Agreement for the Use of Confidential Data, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research. Apply for access to these data through the ICPSR Restricted Data Contract Portal, which can be accessed via the study home page.

• 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.

• 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)