CWU: S TUDENT & P ARENT S URVEY
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METHODS SAMPLE:
529 high school students 477 Parents of high school students The samples did not overlap, so a total of 1006 households are represented in these data.
College-bound high school students in Washington state, and parents of same. This was defined as a student who had recently taken one of three college prep tests. On-line survey. Separate questionnaires were used for the student and parent surveys.
POPULATION:
TECHNIQUE:
FIELD DATES :
May 9 – 27, 2014 (Students) May 9 – June 8, 2014 (Parents)
Central Washington University provided a list of 12,000 names of students who had taken one of three pre- college tests this year (PSAT, ACT, PLAN). A sample of 4000 students and 4000 parents was selected from this list. A supplemental sample of 2000 additional parents was drawn and mailed two weeks after the initial mailing. A letter invitation from Elway Research was mailed to the students and a separate letter to “the Parents or Guardians of” the student listed. Both were invited to log onto a questionnaire and complete the survey. Reminder post cards were sent one week after the original invitation. Respondents were offered a chance to enter a drawing for one of five iPads that were raffled off as an incentive to participate. The response rate was 13% for the student survey, and 8% for the parents survey
SAMPLE FRAME
DATA COLLECTION:
It must be kept in mind that survey research cannot predict the future. Although great care and the most rigorous methods available were employed in the design, execution and analysis of this survey, these results can be interpreted only as representing the answers given by these respondents to these questions at the time they completed the survey. Given that the respondents were not a probability sample, these results cannot be used to project to the entire population of high school students and the typical “margin of sampling error” does not apply.
JUNE 2014
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