Sample Survey Designs in Education—Focus on Administrative Utilization.

The article focuses on the importance of sample survey designs in the administrative utilization. Sampling theory and techniques have numbers of distinct advantages over a census survey such as: (a) it permits the school executive to cut the cost of doing the survey (b) it can reduce the total manpo...

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Published in:Review of Educational Research Vol. 36; no. 5; pp. 552 - 566
Main Author: Furno, Orlando F.
Format: Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Dec1966
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        Sampling (Process)
        Surveys
        Census
        School administrators
        Labor supply
        Schools
        Statistics
        Educational finance
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          Sampling (Process)
          Surveys
          Census
          School administrators
          Labor supply
          Schools
          Statistics
          Educational finance
      ab: The article focuses on the importance of sample survey designs in the administrative utilization. Sampling theory and techniques have numbers of distinct advantages over a census survey such as: (a) it permits the school executive to cut the cost of doing the survey (b) it can reduce the total manpower requirements to do the survey (c) it permits vital school statistics to be amassed more quickly. It is suggested not to use sampling techniques to estimate total school withdrawals in the preparation of monthly school revenue and expenditure. ST has disadvantages: (1) the actual sampling error cannot always be predicted accurately (2) when the sample is improperly designed wrong conclusions can be made (3) high variability can lead to uninformative results.
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