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Hi, Bill:

I can't answer that question.  I hope that others do similar research,
and then we will have a better sense of whether our sample is
significantly different from other samples.  How do you think NYC
teachers are "quite different?"  Believe me, I'm not being a NYC
chauvinist, but I am curious about the basis for your assumption.

Eric Siegel
Director, Planning & Program Development
Connections Project Director
New York Hall of Science
47-01 111th Street
Queens, NY 11369
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www.nyscience.org

On May 12, 2004, at 4:52 PM, Bill Watson wrote:

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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
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> -----Original Message-----
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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:
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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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