Strive recently partnered with the Public Education Network (PEN) to conduct a civic index poll in Greater Cincinnati. The Civic Index is a survey designed to measure a community’s perception of itself with regard to its public schools.
The presentation embedded below presents the results of the entire index:
(Download a full copy of the presentation)
Summary of Results
-The Economic downturn has taken a toll on the level of concern given to public education
-Greater Cincinnati adults are positive on the status of their community schools
-Attitudes toward No Child Left Behind are evenly mixed in total, but the intensity is greater among respondents that feel the program is “hurting” performance
-Three out of four Greater Cincinnati residents feel their community has taken responsibility for ensuring a quality public school
-Over three fourths of Greater Cincinnati respondents feel that local businesses are involved in their public schools
-Thirty-nine percent (39%) of Cincinnati adults say they are hearing less about education this year in election campaigns
-Forty-Four (44%) say that public education is an issue that is important to them as they cast their Presidential ballot
-By a 3-to-1 margin, Cincinnati adults feel elected officials are NOT held accountable for their actions on public education
-Greater Cincinnati respondents have a substantially higher awareness of the channels through which they can learn information about a candidate’s stance on public education
-Greater Cincinnatians are equally split between the recognition of news reports about public schools as being either 'good' or 'bad'
General Survey Notes:
Survey issued via telephone in Greater Cincinnati in July 2008; also issued nationally by PEN in 2008; 628 respondents in the following counties: Boone, Brown, Campbell, Clermont, Dearborn, Gallatin, Grant, Hamilton, Kenton, Ohio, Pendleton, Warren; Margin of error is +/- 3.3 percentage points
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3 comments:
I'm a teacher educator/researcher with a specialty in quantitative methodology and data analysis. I find these results fascinating, especially as reported here: http://nky.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20081120/NEWS0103/811200361
I would like to use this in some of my courses. Could you post the anonymous data or at least the phone survey questions? A CSV format of less than 700 records would be tiny by Internet standards. I would even accept it in an email if needs be.
I will look into this to see if we are able to post this for you. Thanks for your interest.
The survey was created by the Public Education Network. The questions, and other bits of interesting information such as other cities who have administered the survey, are available on their Web site http://civicindex4education.org.
If this isn't what you are looking for, please send me an e-mail at lungs@strivetogether.org.
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