The purpose of this study is to survey middle and high school students and teachers all across the United States and find out the many different reasons why people study and teach Latin.
Feel free to download the copies of the survey above and edit them to use with your own students and colleagues.
The survey was open from May 2013 - February 2014. It was primarily conducted online, using Qualtrics. Paper copies of the survey were made available at the teacher's request. Here is what it all looks like stacked up next to each other (with a copy of the OLD for reference):
Feel free to download the copies of the survey above and edit them to use with your own students and colleagues.
The survey was open from May 2013 - February 2014. It was primarily conducted online, using Qualtrics. Paper copies of the survey were made available at the teacher's request. Here is what it all looks like stacked up next to each other (with a copy of the OLD for reference):

The principal investigator is Elliott Goodman. Elliott taught middle and high school Latin for five years at an independent school near Los Angeles, California before joining the Ed.M. program in Applied Linguistics (Second Language Assessment concentration) at Teachers College, Columbia University. He served as California JCL Certamen Chair from 2010-2012, volunteered at the Getty Museum’s Academia Aestiva Latina, and is an alumnus of SALVI’s Rusticatio Virginiana, the Classical Summer School at the American Academy in Rome, the Klingenstein Summer Institute, and the Classics and Linguistics departments at the University of Chicago. Elliott’s favorite texts to read with students are the Testamentum Porcelli, the poems of Sulpicia and Catullus, and the letters of Cicero.
This research project has been approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Teachers College-Columbia University, Protocol #13-285. Approval means that we follow federal and international laws regarding research with live human participants. To learn more about IRB, click here. If you'd like to see a copy of our IRB application or paper documents with the IRB Seal of Approval, please e-mail NationalLatinSurvey2013@gmail.com.
This research project has been approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Teachers College-Columbia University, Protocol #13-285. Approval means that we follow federal and international laws regarding research with live human participants. To learn more about IRB, click here. If you'd like to see a copy of our IRB application or paper documents with the IRB Seal of Approval, please e-mail NationalLatinSurvey2013@gmail.com.