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20. I am going to read you a short list of skills and abilities that School District students are taught during school. For each one, first tell me how important you think each one is on a scale from 1 to 5, where a 5 is very important, and a 1 is not at all important. On a scale from 1 to 5, how important is/are _________?

1 2 3 4 5 8

Not at all Very Not

Important Important Sure

Literary skills, reading and writing:

	IMPORTANCE OF READING & WRITING
	Count	%
3	5	1.3%
4	15	3.8%
Very important	366	94.9%
Mean = 4.936

Mathematical skills:

IMPORTANCE OF MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Count %

3 14 3.7%

4 61 15.9%

Very important 310 80.4%

Mean = 4.767

Being prepared to enter the workforce:

	IMPORTANCE OF BEING PREPARED TO ENTER THE WORK FORCE
	Count	%
Not at all important	1	.3%
2	10	2.5%
3	33	8.5%
4	75	19.5%
Very important	267	69.2%
Mean = 4.548

Being prepared to enter college or university:

	IMPORTANCE OF BEING PREPARED TO ENTER COLLEGE
	Count	%
2	1	.3%
3	45	11.6%
4	97	25.2%
Very important	243	63.0%
Mean = 4.508

Knowledge of the sciences:

IMPORTANCE OF SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE

Count %

Not at all important 1 .3%

2 4 1.0%

3 62 16.2%

4 106 27.5%

Very important 213 55.2%

Mean = 4.363

Computer skills:

	IMPORTANCE OF COMPUTER SKILLS
	Count	%
Not at all important	1	.2%
2	7	1.9%
3	59	15.3%
4	129	33.5%
Very important	190	49.1%
Mean = 4.295

Awareness of the importance of civics and citizenship:

IMPORTANCE OF CIVICS AND CITIZENSHIP

Count %

Not at all important 7 1.9%

2 12 3.0%

3 65 16.9%

4 133 34.4%

Very important 169 43.8%

Mean = 4.151

Knowledge of music and the arts:

	IMPORTANCE OF MUSIC AND ARTS KNOWLEDGE
	Count	%
Not at all important	10	2.5%
2	40	10.5%
3	463	42.2%
4	106	27.4%
Very important	67	17.4%
Mean = 3.468

January 2002 Survey

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