FIVE ITEA GALLUP POLL QUESTIONS THAT WILL IMPROVE INSTRUCTION

摘要

The ITEA Gallup Poll has allowed students at this school to gain a much broader view of what technology and design are. The International Technology Education Association (ITEA) commissioned the Gallup Organization in the spring of 2001 to research American citizens' knowledge and attitudes about technological literacy (Dugger & Rose, 2002). Technology is important in everyone's lives, whether they are aware of it or not and regardless of the need or desire to understand their surroundings (Starkweather, 2002). During the spring of 2004, the same poll was conducted with students at a small rural school district located in the northeastern region of the United States. There were 56 students in Grades 9-12 participating. The goal was very similar to the poll administered by ITEA: to determine the students' understanding and perception of technology. Just as in the two Gallup polls administered by ITEA, what the students thought is not what is necessarily true. Surveys are not about fact; they are, instead, about what people think (Rose, Gallup, Dugger & Starkweather, 2004).