Data Needs in Vocational Education. 'The Development of a Minimal Information System to Satisfy the Needs of Selected User Groups.' Final Report. Volume II. Project EDNEED. Classification of Information.

The primary data gathering instrument for Project EDNEED (Empirical Determination of Nationally Essential Educational Data) is contained in this second five-volume final report. The instrument consists of a list of questions and associated informational elements grouped into 18 files, and can provide a basis, used as a preliminary source book, for the development of vocational education information needs assessment studies at the state and local levels. File content and structure are addressed to public vocational education, covering only those students, curriculum, staff, property, and expenditures directly associated with public controlled vocational education. The files include the following categories: Vocational curriculum and instructional characteristics; vocational curriculum expenditures by activities, by local assignments, and by object; vocational student characteristics; characteristics of the vocational completer/early leaver; local education agency (LEA) vocational staff member characteristics; LEA vocational property characteristics; local school characteristics; LEA characteristics; characteristics of the LEA vocational service area; vocational education characteristics of the state education agency (SEA); SEA vocational expenditures by activities, by assignment, and by object; SEA vocational staff characteristics; SEA vocational property characteristics; and general characteristics of the state. Key definitions are appended. (TA)