Texas K-12 & School Choice Survey: What Do Voters Say about K-12 Education? Polling Paper Number 14

Autor/in	DiPerna, Paul
Institution	Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice
Titel	Texas K-12 & School Choice Survey: What Do Voters Say about K-12 Education? Polling Paper Number 14
Quelle	(2013), (79 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Educational Policy; Familiarity; School Choice; Opinions; Sampling; Elementary Secondary Education; Interviews; Charter Schools; Public Schools; Educational Vouchers; Educational Quality; Virtual Classrooms; Expenditure per Student; Educational Change; Scholarships; Tax Credits; Income; School Districts; Private Schools; State Surveys; Voting; Charts; Enrollment; Educational Finance; Telephone Surveys; Financial Support; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Lehrmeinung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Bildungsreform; Scholarship; Stipendium; Steuerermäßigung; Einkommen; School district; Schulbezirk; Private school; Privatschule; Abstimmung; Diagram; Diagrams; Diagramm; Tabellarische Überischt; Tabelle; Einschulung; Bildungsfonds; Telephone interview; Telefoninterview; Finanzielle Förderung
Abstract	The "Texas K-12 & School Choice Survey" project, commissioned by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice and conducted by Braun Research, Inc. (BRI), measures Texas 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 Texans stand on important issues and policy proposals in K-12 education? They try to provide some brief observations and insights in this memo. A randomly selected and statistically representative sample of Texas voters recently responded to 20 substantive questions and 11 demographic questions. A total of 613 telephone interviews were conducted in English and Spanish from March 19 to 27, 2013, by means of both landline and cell phone. Statistical results were weighted to correct for known demographic discrepancies. The margin of sampling error for the statewide sample is plus or minus 4.0 percentage points. In this project the author and his colleagues also included one split-sample experiment. A split-sample design is a systematic way of comparing the effects of two or more alternative wordings for a given question. In this case, the purpose is to see if providing a new piece of information about education spending can significantly influence opinion on the topic--a salient issue in Texas's state politics and representing an undercurrent in education policy discussions. Their polling paper has four sections. The first section summarizes key findings. They call the second section "Survey Snapshots," which offers charts highlighting the core findings of the project. The third section describes the survey's methodology, summarizes response statistics, and presents additional technical information on call dispositions for landline and cell phone interviews. The fourth section displays 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. (Contains 9 notes and 3 footnotes.) (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	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
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10