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Lippincott, Kenneth; Radig, John – 1974
This package has been developed as a resource guide and training aid to assist school administrators who want to improve school-community relations, to involve people meaningfully in decision-making, and to create learning experiences of quality in the community's lifelong educational process. The guidebook lists steps for identifying formal and…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Community Resources, Community Surveys, Elementary Secondary Education
Brown, Marleen – 1974
The booklet serves as a step-by-step guide to assist career education teachers and administrators in setting up a program of utilizing the resources in the community. It provides specific procedures, forms, and suggestions to help the school in surveying the community. Nine steps involved in surveying the community are discussed in detail: (1)…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Resources, Community Surveys, Educational Resources
Kaplan, Oscar – 1983
Guidelines are provided for designing and conducting a telephone opinion poll of the community. Issues discussed in the first part of this guide include determining the proper sample size, drawing a representative sample of the general adult population or of voters, selecting phone numbers, making call-backs, obtaining the proper male-female…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Surveys, Educational Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
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Burges, Bill – 1976
This book is intended to aid school officials in conducting effective community surveys for the purpose of improving citizen involvement and influence in educational decision-making. Although the book is of considerable value when used alone, it is designed for use as part of a set of related publications collectively entitled, "Factual Politics."…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citizen Participation, Community Surveys, Elementary Secondary Education
Wright, Linus – 1983
These tips on surveying public opinion are based on the contention that community surveys can be useful to educators who want to know what the community is thinking about education, are ready to respond, and have no qualms about making survey results public. The author first discusses the importance of determination of the community survey's…
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Interviews
Albee, Beverly; And Others – 1984
This paper describes a survey conducted in 1982 by the Rosemount, Minnesota, school district as a model for other districts wishing to obtain reliable information about their communities at low cost. The paper outlines the following information: (1) the objectives of the survey; (2) the district's constraints and resources; (3) preliminary…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Surveys, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Smith, Vernon; Gallup, George H. – 1977
A secondary analysis of eight years' cumulative results from the annual Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes toward public schools is presented. These eight polls reveal a public that has confidence in its schools and its teachers and supports specific innovations, particularly career education, moral education, and various types of alternative…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Community Surveys, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Banach, William J. – 1980
To help improve school public relations programs, this handbook tells how to use survey and feedback techniques and how to interpret survey results. The first chapter gives a brief overview of the usefulness of surveys for getting community feedback. Chapter 2 recommends beginning by deciding what one wants to know from a survey, what human and…
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Butler, Fred Clayton – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
There are many thousands of people who are in a position to exert great influence in the work of Americanization, through their leadership or membership in State legislatures, State bureaus and departments, and State organizations, official and voluntary. The primary purpose of this book is to lay before that body of men and women some concrete…
Descriptors: Educational History, Immigrants, Citizenship Education, State Surveys