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ERIC Number: ED560639
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Oct
Pages: 76
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
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Delaware K-12 & School Choice Survey: What Do Voters Say about K-12 Education? Polling Paper No. 21
DiPerna, Paul
Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice
The "Delaware K-12 & School Choice Survey" project, commissioned by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice and conducted by Braun Research, Inc. (BRI), measures Delaware registered voters' familiarity and views on a range of K-12 education topics and school choice reforms. The author and his colleagues report response levels and differences of voter opinion, as well as the intensity of those responses. Where do Delawareans stand on important issues and policy proposals in K-12 education? A randomly selected and statistically representative sample of Delaware voters responded to more than 20 substantive questions and items, as well as six demographic questions. This project also included a couple of split-sample experiments. A split-sample design is a systematic way of comparing the effects of two or more alternative wordings for a given question. The purpose of the experiment was to see if providing a new piece of information about education can significantly influence opinion on salient issues in state politics and education policy discussions. This polling paper has four sections: (1) a summary of key findings; (2) "Survey Snapshots," which offers charts highlighting the core findings of the project; (3) the survey's methodology, which summarizes response statistics, and presents additional technical information on call dispositions for landline and cell phone interviews; and (4) the survey questions and results ("topline numbers"), allowing the reader to follow the interview as it was conducted, with respect to question wording and ordering.
Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice. Available from: Foundation for Educational Choice. One American Square Suite 2420, Indianapolis, IN 46282. Tel: 317-681-0745; Fax: 317-681-0945; e-mail: info@edchoice.org; Web site: http://www.edchoice.org
Publication Type: Numerical/Quantitative Data; Tests/Questionnaires; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice
Identifiers - Location: Delaware
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