Use percentage-consensus opinionnaires to locate shared values before redesign¶

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Description¶

The CMP's projective surveys use a Likert-scale percentage consensus approach to find where all stakeholder groups share common values that can undergird an educational design. The authors note that "the stronger the consensus, the safer the move forward," and that the technique can identify in advance possible tripwires for the board, superintendent, or principals by extracting key data school-by-school.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Questionnaires grouping percentages of response on a Likert scale
• A good return rate to ensure results are meaningful

Constraints¶

• The authors contrast this with districts that guess about public opinion and risk being challenged for imposing a middle school

Target Learners¶

• Preadolescent students in middle grades

Target Learning Goals¶

• Community-aligned program design

Affordances¶

• Wiles Bondi Curriculum Management Plan

Related Strategies¶

• Map the curriculum by grading periods to eliminate gaps and redundancy and enable interdisciplinary planning
• Conduct a needs assessment combining baseline district data and projective opinion data before designing a middle school
• Assessing Needs and Wants with Likert Scales
• Needs and Wants Assessment with Likert Scales

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Wiles, Jon W.; Bondi, Joseph W. (1986). Making Middle Schools Work. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED277147