MEASURING STUDENT OPINION IN HIGH SCHOOL.
The article relates an experience with the setting up of a Bureau of Student Opinion based on the principles of Gallup's Institute of American Opinion and operating on the basis of scientific cross section, or sampling. Statistical keys were set up by taking 5 percent of the enrolment by curriculum,...
| Publicado en: | Education Digest Vol. 5; no. 5; pp. 42 - 44 |
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Prakken Publications
Jan1940
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