Surveys
Surveys can help your school district understand your broader public’s thoughts about educational goals, student performance, program priorities, or views on specific issues.
To produce accurate public opinion, survey questions must be simple, unbiased, and designed to evoke an unqualified, clear response. Surveys generally should be brief, and can be used at any time in the public engagement process. Our tipsheet and sample survey questions can help you get started.
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Surveys Tipsheet
Web-based tools make conducting online surveys an easy and cost-effective way to gather
information from employees, parents, and other stakeholder groups. Whether you need a
general survey about communications preferences, or an issue-based survey, it’s important to
make them part of your toolbox to build public support. These tips can help.
Sample Survey Questions
This basic communications survey can give you a quick assessment of how stakeholders now
receive information as well as their communications preferences. It can help you identify the
best channels to reach various stakeholder groups.