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ELS:2002 longitudinal database

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A nationally representative U.S. longitudinal education dataset maintained by the National Center for Education Statistics, following Year-10 students from 2002 through young adulthood with survey, transcript, school, and parent data.

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  • ELS:2002 longitudinal database: The US Educational Longitudinal Survey 2002 is the public secondary dataset the article analyzes: "16,197 high school Year-10 students from 751 schools followed up through age 26". It used a two-stage complex sample design with sampling weights yielding a nationally representative probability sample of public, Catholic, and other private schools, with follow-ups 2, 4, and 10 years after baseline, transcript collection for more than 90% of baseline students, and a 78.2% age-26 response rate. (Herbert W. Marsh et al. (2023))

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  • Herbert W. Marsh, Reinhard Pekrun, Jiesi Guo, John Hattie, Eyal Karin. (2023). Too Much of a Good Thing Might Be Bad: the Double-Edged Sword of Parental Aspirations and the Adverse Effects of Aspiration-Expectation Gaps. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09768-8
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title ELS:2002 longitudinal database
description A nationally representative U.S.
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