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If I understood your post correctly, then 1,000 of the 1,200 educators
surveyed are NYC educators. How valid will these results be for ASTC
institutions nationwide when the sample population represents such a
narrow slice of educators, particularly when the NYC slice is quite
different from almost any other in the nation/world?
Bill
Bill Watson
Education Director
Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center
Mobile, AL
(251) 208-6851
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Subject: Re: Survey of Teachers' use of the Web
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We ought to get a copy of this as well, what do you think?
Mike A.
On May 12, 2004, at 2:38 PM, Eric Siegel wrote:
> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology
> Centers
> Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related
> institutions.
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> The New York Hall of Science and Altered Image have completed a survey
> of teachers' use of the WWW to support museum visits. The survey had
> over 1200 respondants who answered 23 questions related to their use
of
> the WWW for teaching in general, and specifically as a part of an
> informal education experience. A report analyzing the results of this
> survey is now available.
>
> We were able to persuade the NYC Department of Education to distribute
> the survey through their in-house email system, which resulted in well
> over a 1000 responses from NYC public school educators.
>
> As far as I know, this is the largest such survey, and we will be glad
> to email it to anyone who would like a copy.
>
> Special thanks are due to the National Science Foundation's Informal
> Science Education program for their support, and to Altered Image
> designing the survey and working hard to reach so many teachers.
>
> Eric Siegel
> Director of Planning
> & Program Development
> Connections Project Director
> New York Hall of Science
> 47-01 111th Street
> Queens, NY 11368
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> www.nyscience.org
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