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Using Student Surveys: Suggested Strategies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 May 2020
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Student run survey projects are recommended in the instructor's manuals of many introductory American National Government texts. However, the suggested exercises are for non-random student surveys and/or contain few, if any instructions. James Bindley's instructor's manual for Burnham's Democracy In the Making, 2nd Ed. is typical when he writes:
Have your students conduct a poll. If they can go out in the community, the experience is valuable. Even a campus poll can be meaningful, particularly if you utilize actual questions from a national survey to enable your students to compare and contrast local student opinions with the national norms.
In the Summer, 1980 edition of News John Seltz described in “Public Opinion: Polling and Data Analysis,” his experiences using personal surveys developed and carried out by his Presidency and Congress courses. He contended that such exercises provided many benefits to students, especially in upper level undergraduate courses.
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