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TEACHERS AND TEACHING
Section 4

Question 1: Do you think the public schools need to attract more capable students into the teaching profession, or not? (Asked in: 1988.)
[Code: 741-TeaTX-1]

Question 2: In your opinion, should one of the measurements of a teacher's quality be based on how well his or her students perform on standardized tests or not? (Asked in: 2004, 2005.)
[Code: 828-TeaTX-2]

Question 3: How about school principals? In your opinion, should one of the measurements of a principal's quality be based on how well the students in his or her school perform on standardized tests? (Asked in: 2004, 2005.)
[Code: 827-TeaTX-3]

Trust in Teachers and Principals

Question 4: Do you have trust and confidence in the men and women who are teaching children in the public schools? (Asked in: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014.)
[Code: 896-TeaTX-4]

Question 5: Do you have trust and confidence in the men and women who serve as principals in the public schools? (Asked in: 2013.)
[Code: 953-TeaTX-5]

Entrance Requirements

Question 6: Thinking about training teachers, should the entrance requirements into college teacher preparation programs be more rigorous, less rigorous, or should they be kept the same as they are now? (Asked in: 2012, 2014.)
[Code: 933-TeaTX-6]

Question 7: In your opinion, if the entrance requirements into a college teacher preparation program were more rigorous, would more effective teachers graduate from that college? (Asked in: 2012.)
[Code: 934-TeaTX-7]

Question 8: In your opinion, should the entrance requirements into college teacher preparation programs be more selective, less selective, or should they be the same as the entrance requirements into the following college programs? (Asked in: 2012.)
[Code: 935-TeaTX-8]

Question 9: In your opinion, how much time should a person who is preparing to become a teacher spend practicing teaching under the guidance of a certified teacher before assuming responsibility for his or her own class: Six weeks, six months, one year, or two years? (Asked in: 2014.)
[Code: 982-TeaEX-9]

Teacher Shortages

Question 10: If your local school needed teachers in science, math, technical subjects, and vocational subjects, would you favor or oppose these proposals? Increasing the number of scholarships to college students who agree to enter teacher training programs in these subjects; Relaxing teacher education and certification plans so more people could qualify to teach these subjects. (Asked in: 1986, 2009.)
[Code: 742-TeaTX-10]

Question 11: It is generally accepted that increasing student enrollments and the growing number of teacher retirements will result in a serious teacher shortage in the coming years. Please tell me whether you would favor or oppose each of the following as a way to meet the expected shortage of teachers. Having the federal government provide loans that would be forgiven if the prospective teacher entered the field of teaching; Permitting persons with bachelor's degrees to become teachers without requiring preparation in the field of education; Lowering the state requirements for the training to become a licensed teacher; Raising teacher salaries; Making it easier for teachers to transfer pension benefits and to receive salary credit when changing jobs between school districts and states; Recruiting qualified teachers from other countries. (Asked in: 2001.)
[Code: 743-TeaTX-11]

Question 12: Which do you think is most important for our nation's future -- to encourage high school and college students with skills in science and math to become scientists or to become science and math teachers? (Asked in: 2011.)
[Code: 909-TeaTX-12]

Question 13: Which do you think would result in higher student achievement in (elementary, middle, high schools): classes with fewer students and a less effective teacher or classes with more students and a more effective teacher? (Asked in: 2011.)
[Code: 913-TeaTX-13]

Question 14: Today there is a shortage of teachers in science, math, technical subjects, and vocational subjects. If your local schools needed teachers in these subjects would you favor or oppose paying them higher wages than teachers of other subjects? (Note: In the 1986 poll, the 1983 data for this question were incorrectly labeled as being from 1981.) (Asked in: 1983, 1984, 1986.)
[Code: 744-TeaTX-14]

Teachers' Working Conditions

Question 15: Do you think that providing better working conditions for teachers would improve the quality of education in the public schools in this community a great deal, a fair amount, not very much, or almost not at all? (Asked in: 1990.)
[Code: 745-TeaTX-15]

Accountability

Teacher/Administrator Accountability
Question 16: Would you favor or oppose a system that would hold teachers and administrators more accountable for the progress of students? (Asked in: 1970.)
[Code: 747-TeaTX-16]

Teaching as a Career

Question 17: Would you like to have a child of yours take up teaching in the public schools as a career? (Note: 1981 data for this question has been reported incorrectly in several later polls; data for this question was not published in 1981.)(Asked in: 1969, 1972, 1980, 1983, 1988, 1990, 1993, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014.)
[Code: 749-TeaTX-17]

Question 18: Would you like to have a daughter of yours take up teaching in the public schools as a career? (Note: The 1984 poll incorrectly reported data for 1981; data for this question was not published in 1981.) (Asked in: 1984.)
[Code: 750-TeaTX-18]

Question 19: Would you like to have a son of yours take up teaching in the public schools as a career? (Note: The 1984 poll incorrectly reported data for 1981; data for this question was not published in 1981.) (Asked in: 1984.)
[Code: 751-TeaTX-19]

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