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Behind the Survey's Findings: Beware of Statisticians Bearing Enrollment Data
Author(s) -
Jenks Frederick L.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1944-9720.1982.tb00228.x
Subject(s) - relevance (law) , mathematics education , survey data collection , psychology , computer science , statistics , political science , mathematics , law
The non‐technical article attempts to uncover some hidden gaps in the design of enrollment surveys in general and foreign languages in particular. Numerous caveats pertaining to interpretations of the data are offered: what is the enrollment “universe”? Did all reporting agencies gather the data in the same fashion? Who isn't included? The main objective of the article is to provide teachers with a non‐statistical, logical approach to determining the relevance of enrollment studies to their particular school systems.