School Issues Newsletter #62

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Subj: School Issues Newsletter #62: Math Texts & Questionnaire
Date: 11/3/99 11:47:05 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: jklagge@bev.net (Jim Klagge)

Dear Friends,

Many of you are interested in the review of Math texts now going on in the county. Texts are available for your perusal (and evaluation forms for your use) during November during school hours at each school. (If you have trouble getting hold of them, please let me know.) Community meetings (6:30-8pm) about these texts are scheduled as follows:
For HS level courses:
BHS: 11/11
CHS: 11/18
SHS: 11/29
For Elementary level courses:
Kipps: 11/23
CES: 12/2
SES: 12/9
(I'm afraid the meetings in the Auburn strand already occurred, but you are welcome to attend meetings in other strands.)

MAILING LIST QUESTIONNAIRE

I am very interested in your thoughts and experiences with communication via this mailing list. I have posted (below) seventeen questions to which I cordially invite you to respond (takes about 5 minutes). I am working with Andrea Kavanaugh, Director of Research, Blacksburg Electronic Village, in this effort. BEV is interested in Internet use and impact. I started this list in early 1996, with about 300 addresses. We posed these questions later that year, in an effort to improve service and to identify trends. Now, three years later,and with 500 more addresses, we pose them again. Simply FORWARD this e-mail message to Andrea <kavan@vt.edu> and write your answers into the body of the message as the questions appear. All your answers will be treated as anonymous and confidential. She will post the results on the web site of the BEV. Thank you very much for helping me understand how to make this service meet your needs and interests. (Note: If you "reply" and then fill in youranswers, they will come to me, rather than to Andrea.)

1. How long have you been on this mailing list?

2. How long have you been using the Internet?

3. On a scale of 1-5, how would you rate the helpfulness of the communication via this list in clarifying issues (with 1 being not at all helpful and 5 being very helpful)?

4. On a scale of 1-5, how would you rate the helpfulness of the communication via this list in keeping you up to date with school issues (with 1 being not at all helpful and 5 being very helpful)?

5. How is the communication via this list different (if at all) fromother media (television, radio, newspaper articles) in addressing school issues?

6. Would you say that having school issues communicated to you via this list has made you feel more involved in school issues than you felt priorto receiving this list?

7. On a scale of 1 to 5, how important do you rate the reply function of this list, as opposed to a traditional receive-only newsletter (1 being not at all important and 5 being very important)?

8. How many times have you spoken at a public meeting as a result of a communication exchanged via this list?

9. Would you say that your participation in public meetings regarding school issues has increased, decreased or stayed the same since you became a member of this mailing list?

10. If you answered "increased" to the previous question, would you attribute that increase to information or communication via thislist?

11. If you answered "decreased" to the question, would you say that replying to Jim Klagge's email is substituting for face-to-face participation?

12. How many times have you called a public official or school administrator as a result of communication exchanged via this list?

13. How many times have you written a letter (electronic or postal mail) to an elected official or school administrator as a result of a communication exchanged via this list?

14. Please mention a few things that you consider to be the main advantages of communicating via this list.

15. Please mention any disadvantages of communicating via this list.

16. Have you told other people whom you thought might be interested about this list?

17. Any other comments you would like to make?

As always, if you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please let me know and I will be happy to do so.

Jim Klagge
Chair & District F representative
Montgomery County School Board.

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