Student Issues Questions: Section 1

STUDENT ISSUES
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Section 1: Student Issues

Academic: Ability and Achievement
Question 1: In your opinion, do all students have the ability to reach a high level of learning, or do only some have the ability to reach a high level of learning? (Asked in: 2000, 2001.)
[Code: 666-StuAA-1]

Question 2: Some people believe a student's success in school is based on his or her natural ability to learn. Others believe it has more to do with how hard they try. Which do you believe? (Asked in: 2010.)
[Code: 901-StuAA-2]

Question 3: Which more accurately reflects your own views of students' ability to achieve their academic potential in school? Do you think most students achieve their full academic potential in school, or do you think most students achieve only a small part of their academic potential in school? (Asked in: 2000, 2001.)
[Code: 667-StuAA-3]

Academic: Amount of Schoolwork Required
Question 4: An educator claims that children are not achieving as well in school today as they did 20 years ago because they are given about one-third less work to do in school and after school. Do you think children are assigned less work today? (If yes) Why is this so? (Asked in: 1979.)
[Code: 668-StuAA-4]

Academic: Amount of Schoolwork Required (Elementary)
Question 5: In general, do you think elementary schoolchildren in the public schools here are made to work too hard in school and on homework or not hard enough? (Asked in: 1975, 1983, 1984, 2006.)
[Code: 669-StuAA-5]

Academic: Amount of Schoolwork Required (High School)
Question 6: What about students in the public high schools here -- in general, are they required to work too hard or not hard enough? (Asked in: 1975, 1983, 1984.)
[Code: 670-StuAA-6]

Academic: Attitude Toward Learning
Question 7: How would you describe the impact school has had or is having on your oldest child's attitude toward learning? Has it caused your child to become an eager learner, caused your child to tolerate learning as a necessary chore, or caused your child to be turned off to learning? (Asked in: 1998, 2010.)
[Code: 671-StuAA-7]

Academic: Educational Influences on the Young
Question 8: In addition to school, young people receive their education from a number of different sources. As I read off these sources, one at a time, would you indicate how important an influence you think each source is on a student by mentioning a number between zero and 10 -- the higher the number, the more important the influence; and the lower the number, the less important. (Asked in: 1989.)
[Code: 672-StuAE-8]

Question 9: Now, as I read off each of these sources, one at a time, would you tell me how positive an influence you think each source is on a student by mentioning a number between zero and 10 -- the higher the number, the more positive the influence; and the lower the number, the less positive. (Asked in: 1989.)
[Code: 673-StuAE-9]

Academic: Motivation
Question 10: Many high school students are not motivated to do well academically. To indicate why you think this is the case, would you rate each of the following reasons as very important, somewhat important, not very important, or not at all important? The negative attitudes of fellow students about high academic performance. The fact that employers of high school graduates seldom seem to care about high school records. The fact that many colleges will admit any student with a high school diploma, regardless of his or her high school record. (Asked in: 1994.)
[Code: 674-StuAM-10]

Question 11: In your opinion, who is most important in determining how well or how poorly students perform in school -- the students themselves, the students' teachers, or the students' parents? (Asked in: 2004, 2005.)
[Code: 835-StuAM-11]

Question 12: Recently, some school districts have experimented with the idea of paying students money for specific behaviors or achievements, such as reading books and getting good grades. We would like to know your views on the practice. Do you support or oppose the idea of school districts paying small amounts of money to students to, for example, read books, attend school, or get good grades? (Asked in: 2010.)
[Code:899-StuAM-12]

Question 13: Have you ever paid your child to read a book, attend school, or for getting good grades? (Asked in: 2010.)
[Code:899-StuAM-13]

Academic: Noninterested Students
Question 14: Some students have no interest in school work as now offered in junior and senior high school and they become a problem. Here are some ways that have been proposed for dealing with these students. Will you tell me in the case of each proposal whether or not you approve of it? A. Permit these students to quit school. B. Have businesses and industries provide on-the-job training as a substitute for regular school. C. Have special training courses which would prepare them for jobs. D. Have a work-study program (1/2 day at school, 1/2 day on-the-job training). E. Give school credit for volunteer work during the school day with an approved organization such as a local hospital, day-care center, and the like. F. Have separate programs for students with out-of-the-ordinary interests and talents. (Asked in: 1974.)
[Code: 682-StuAN-14]

Question 15: If you could get a good full-time job, would you prefer taking the job or would you prefer to continue going to school? (Asked of students.) (Asked in: 1974.)
[Code: 680-StuAN-15]

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POLL RESULTS

	National Totals
Year	All Have the Ability to Reach a High Level of Learning %	Only Some Have the Ability %	Don't Know %
2001	52	46	2
2000	55	43	2

	National Totals 2010 %	Public School Parents 2010 %
Success based on natural ability to learn	23	28
Success based on how hard students try	73	68
Don't know	4	4

	National Totals
Year	Most Students Achieve Their Full Potential %	Most Achieve Only a Small Part of Their Potential %	Don't Know %
2001	16	81	3
2000	17	80	3

	National Totals: 1979
	Public School Parents %	Parochial School Parents %
Yes, less work today	51	59
No	38	22
Don't know/no answer	11	19

	National Totals
Year	Too Hard %	Not Hard Enough %	About the Right Amount %	Don't Know %
2006	30	57	--	13
1984	5	59	24	12
1983	4	61	19	16
1975	5	49	28	18

	National Totals
Year	Too Hard %	Not Hard Enough %	About the Right Amount %	Don't Know %
1984	4	67	18	11
1983	3	65	12	20
1975	3	54	22	21

	Public School Parents
	2010 %	1998 %
Caused child to become eager learner	63	50
Caused child to tolerate learning as a necessary chore	27	34
Caused child to be turned off to learning	9	15
Don't know	1	1

	National Totals: 1989
	Most Important Influence (Ratings of 9 and 10 only) %
The student's family	63
School	47
The student's peers	41
Television	32

	National Totals: 1989
	Most Positive Influence (Ratings of 9 and 10 only) %
The student's family	53
School	39
The student's peers	24
Television	13

	National Totals: 1994
	Very Important %	Somewhat Important %	Not Very Important %	Not at All Important %	Don't Know %
The negative attitudes of fellow students about high academic performance	63	25	7	3	2
The fact that employers of high school graduates seldom seem to care about high school records	49	29	15	5	2
The fact that many colleges will admit any student with a high school diploma, regardless of his or her high school record	49	28	15	6	2

	National Totals
Year	Students Themselves %	Students' Teachers %	Students' Parents %	Don't Know %
2005	20	33	43	4
2004	22	30	45	3

	National Totals %
Support	23
Oppose	76
Don't know	1

Question 13: Have you ever paid your child to read a book, attend school, or for getting good grades? (Asked in: 2010.)
[Code: 899-StuAN-13]

	Public Schools Parents %
Yes, have paid	24
No, have not paid	76

	National Totals
1974	Approve %	Disapprove %	Don't Know %
A. Permit these students to quit school	18	78	4
B. Have businesses and industries provide on-the-job training as a substitute for regular school	64	21	5
C. Have special training courses which would prepare them for jobs	94	4	2
D. Have a work-study program (1/2 day at school, 1/2 day on-the-job training	86	9	5
E. Give school credit for volunteer work during the school day with an approved organization suchas a local hospital, day-care center, and the like	77	17	6
F. Have separate programs for students with out-of-the -ordinary interests and talents	79	14	7

Question 15: If you could get a good full-time job, would you prefer taking the job or would you prefer to continue going to school? (Asked of students.) (Asked in: 1974.)
[Code: 680-StuAN-15]

	National Totals: 1974
	High School Juniors & Seniors %
Prefer full-time job	22
Prefer to continue school	78

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