[NMScience] survey opportunity

[Jerry Cross]

As you may recall, a while back you indicated an interest in learning about future 
studies conducted by Horizon Research, Inc. (HRI). HRI is developing measures 
of teachers' understanding of earth, life, and physical science.  

We are recruiting 200 middle school science teachers willing to complete two 
multiple-choice assessments on force and motion two weeks apart. Teachers must 
be teaching (or have taught) middle grades science during the 2008-09 school 
year and must agree not to do anything to enhance their knowledge of force and 
motion between the two assessments. Each assessment will require approximately 
45 minutes to complete.

As an incentive, each participating teacher will receive a $60 gift card, conditional 
upon the participant's fulfillment of the obligations described in the registration 
(linked below). The gift card can be redeemed with various merchants through 
Gifts.com. The incentive cannot be pro-rated for partial participation. Participants 
will not receive scores or any other kind of results from the assessments. 

If you are willing to participate, or would like to learn more about the study, 
please go to the following web site: 

<https://secure.horizon-research.com/atlast/atlast_assessment/index.php?study=2>

Please be assured that this study is not designed to evaluate teachers.  Individual 
teacher data will remain strictly confidential.  The purpose of the study is 
solely to gather information about the assessments we have developed.

If you have any questions, please contact Jayme Dunnon at atlast_study at horizon-research.com 
or by calling toll-free (877)-297-6829.  Participation in this study is limited 
and registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,
Jayme Dunnon
Research Associate

PS:  Please feel free to forward this e-mail to others who you know that may 
be interested in participating in this study.


Jerry Cross

505-228-6768  cell
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