The attempt was made in this study to collect descriptive data pertaining to the status of population education within the curricula of Florida's secondary schools. In April 1974 a 4-page questionnaire was mailed to 300 randomly selected Florida middle, junior high, and senior high schools. The 23-item questionnaire was designed to obtain data from classroom teachers on a broad range of subjects and areas pertaining to the status of population education within their respective schools. 45.3% of the teachers returned completed questionnaires. Of the 136 teachers responding, 75.1% taught their population units in public secondary schools; the remaining group taught in private schools. The following are the more important findings relative to the status of population education in Florida: 1) classroom teachers in a wide variety of subject areas included population content and units within their regular courses; 2) the units taught by these teachers emphasized different objectives, content, and concepts; 3) the units taught by public and private school teachers were very similar in objectives, content, and concepts stressed; 4) the units varied in length; 5) social studies teachers were expected to and, in fact, did teach a majority of the units on population education; 6) population education teachers desired more instructional aids and inservice workshops to help them improve their courses; and 7) a vast majority of the teachers had taken no formal college course which focused on population content. This survey reported the quantitative nature of population education in the Florida secondary schools; the quality of the education provided remains an unknown.

中文翻译：

---

佛罗里达中学的人口教育：现状研究

本研究试图收集有关佛罗里达中学课程中人口教育状况的描述性数据。1974 年 4 月，一份 4 页的问卷被邮寄到 300 所随机选择的佛罗里达中学、初中和高中。这份包含 23 个项目的问卷旨在从课堂教师那里获取与各自学校人口教育状况有关的广泛学科和领域的数据。45.3%的教师交回了已完成的问卷。在回应的 136 名教师中，75.1% 的教师在公立中学任教；剩下的一组在私立学校任教。以下是与佛罗里达州人口教育状况相关的更重要的发现：1) 各种学科领域的课堂教师在其常规课程中包含人口内容和单元；2）这些老师讲授的单元强调不同的目标、内容和概念；3）公立和私立学校教师讲授的单元在目标、内容和强调的概念上非常相似；4）单位长度不同；5) 社会研究教师应该并且事实上确实教授了大多数人口教育单元；6) 人口教育教师需要更多的教具和在职讲习班，以帮助他们改进课程；7）绝大多数教师没有参加过以人口内容为重点的正规大学课程。该调查报告了佛罗里达中学人口教育的定量性质；