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Gallup 2014 Files Related to Its Five Published Reports on Parent and Teacher Responses to Its Common Core State Standards Polls, and Specific Questions Highlighted in Each

Composed by Mercedes Schneider on November 3, 2014

Link to all five reports:

http://www.gallup.com/opinion/queue/179060/five-key-insights-parents-teachers-views-common-core.aspx

Link to first report: Parent survey:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/178889/public-school-parents-divided-common-core.aspx

Parent Survey Items in Report (Four Items):

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Link to Gallup file of Detailed Results of Parent Survey:

http://www.gallup.com/file/poll/178901/Common_Core_I_Parents_Support_141027.pdf

Some Demographic Information from Parent Survey:

Results for national adults are based on telephone interviews with –1,010– national adults, aged 18+, conducted September 16-17, 2014. For results based on the total sample of National Adults, the margin of error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.

Results for public school parents are based on telephone interviews with –532– public school parents, aged 18+, conducted September 16-21, 2014 in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of public school parents, the margin of error is ±6 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.

Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones and cellular phones, with interviews conducted in Spanish for respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking. Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 50% cell phone respondents and 50% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by time zone within region. Landline and cell phones numbers are selected using random digit dial methods. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday.

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Gallup Report One (of Four) on Teacher Survey of CCSS (Six Items):

http://www.gallup.com/poll/178892/teachers-offer-split-decision-common-core.aspx

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Demographics for All Four Teacher Survey Reports (for Items Completed by All Respondents):

These findings are based on an online Gallup Panel survey with 854 public school teachers in grades K-12 across the country. Teachers in the Gallup Panel were selected at random from Gallup Daily tracking. Those teachers available to take surveys by Web (95% of teacher panelists) were invited to take the Common Core survey online between Aug. 11 and Sept. 7. …

Results are based on Web interviews conducted Aug. 11-Sept. 7, 2014, via the Gallup Panel, with a random sample of 854 public K-12 school teachers, aged 18 and older, with Internet access, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The data are weighted to match national teacher demographics of gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education and region.

Demographic weighting targets are based on the weighted demographic distribution of Gallup's nationally representative nightly poll respondents identified as teachers over a period of four years.

For results based on the sample of 854 public school teachers, the margin of sampling error is ±5 percentage points.

Gallup Report Two (of Four) on Teacher Survey of CCSS (Six Items):

http://www.gallup.com/poll/178997/teachers-favor-common-core-standards-not-testing.aspx

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Gallup Report Three (of Four) on Teacher Survey of CCSS (Three Items):

http://www.gallup.com/poll/179048/teachers-feel-worried-frustrated-common-core.aspx

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Gallup Report Four (of Four) on Teacher Survey of CCSS (Three Items):

http://www.gallup.com/poll/179102/teachers-concerned-common-core-computer-testing.aspx

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Respondent comments to Teacher Survey:

Positive Comments About CCSS:

http://www.gallup.com/file/poll/179018/Positive%20Verbatims.pdf

Negative Comments About CCSS:

http://www.gallup.com/file/poll/179021/Negative%20Verbatims.pdf