Last week Project Tomorrow launched "Speak Up 2008," a nationwide survey on 21st century education. This year's survey is open in students, teachers, parents, and educators, and includes new questions related to Web 2.0 and educational technologies. Participation open until Dec. 19.
The results of the 1998-1999 state-by-state survey of technology in schools are presented in this article.
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In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted a survey of people who make websites. Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey’s 37 questions, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.
Survey results for the learning spaces survey issued in January 2007
NSF program for large-scale data collection from a cross-section of the US population
This is the actual survey data that concludes: "The survey reveals a nation whose book readers, on the whole, can hardly be called ravenous. The typical person claimed to have read four books in the last year -- half read more and half read fewer. Excluding those who hadn't read any, the usual number read was seven."
Open source online survey tool similar to SurveyMonkey...Features:
* Unlimited number of surveys at the same time
* Creation of a printable survey version
* Unlimited number of question groups in a survey
* Unlimited numbers of questions in a group/survey
* 20 different question types with more to come
* Ability to set conditions for questions depending on earlier answers.