Abstract
Defining Communities for Educational Research: The Benefit of School Geocodes Track: GIS for Administration & Planning Author(s): Doug Geverdt The National Center for Education Statistics' Common Core of Data (CCD) provides a comprehensive, annual, national statistical database of core administrative characteristics for the nation's public schools (approximately 94,000). One of those core items is a geocode of school location (latitude/longitude). Although the CCD also provides schools with a gross indicator of community locale, these geocodes are a boon for educational researchers interested in systematically studying school conditions in more specific types of geographic areas. This presentation will discuss how educational researchers can spatially integrate CCD school geocodes with Census geographic concepts to construct more nuanced school locale classifications. The presentation will demonstrate the results of one such effort designed to highlight differences within suburban and rural areas. This investigation relied on ArcInfo to prepare, integrate, and analyze spatial data, and it demonstrates the utility of GIS to leverage data and extend educational research. Doug Geverdt U.S. Census Bureau Population Division FB3, RM2343 Washington , DC 20233-8800 US Phone: 3017632464 Fax: 3014572481 E-mail: douglas.e.geverdt@census.gov |
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