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Summary of Methodology

The overall design for conducting this project featured a multi-stage cluster sampling methodology. Employing this technique produced a scientific, and thus generalizable, survey of high school students and teachers in the United States. This technique involved drawing an initial sample of 40 high school buildings in the United States.

For each of these 40 schools, a phone call was placed to the school principal, asking if his/her school would be willing to participate in the project. Thirty principals agreed to have their schools participate in the survey.

These 30 school administrators were asked to coordinate the administration of surveys to all students and teachers in the school building. A subsample of parents was drawn and sent questionnaires via the mail. Copies of the surveys that were administered to students and teachers may be found in the appendix to this report.

The field period for the survey began in April 2007, and closed in June 2007.
In total, 5,484 students, 558 parents, and 464 teachers completed the questionnaires.
This project was designed and conducted by Dr. David Yalof and Dr. Kenneth Dautrich at the University of Connecticut.

Please note: For the student survey, the results are accurate to within a margin of plus or minus 1.3 percentage points, at the 95% level of confidence. For the parent sample, the margin of error is 4.1 percentage points. For the teachers, the results are accurate to within a plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.


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