Peddling Panic: Biased Survey Promotes National Science Standards
Guest post by Jack Hassard.
This year, Achieve, Inc. commissioned a survey of attitudes toward science education with Public Opinion Strategies and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. The pollsters sampled 800 voters using a stratified sampling technique so that they could report results by political party, ethnicity, education level of parents, region of the USA, and urban, suburban and rural areas.
There were essentially two aspects to this survey. The first was to find out what are American voters attitudes toward science education in terms of competitiveness with other countries. The second purpose was to determine the voters attitudes toward the new science standards.
The survey research group based their findings on a national sample of N=800 which was conducted on February 22-26, 2012.
A report of this research was presented at the NSTA Annual meeting in Indianapolis last month. You can view a
This year, Achieve, Inc. commissioned a survey of attitudes toward science education with Public Opinion Strategies and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. The pollsters sampled 800 voters using a stratified sampling technique so that they could report results by political party, ethnicity, education level of parents, region of the USA, and urban, suburban and rural areas.
There were essentially two aspects to this survey. The first was to find out what are American voters attitudes toward science education in terms of competitiveness with other countries. The second purpose was to determine the voters attitudes toward the new science standards.
The survey research group based their findings on a national sample of N=800 which was conducted on February 22-26, 2012.
A report of this research was presented at the NSTA Annual meeting in Indianapolis last month. You can view a