Next, the researchers compiled a list of key Pennsylvania
organizations that integrate various aspects of
NBT in their strategic planning missions and goals
(Table 3).
The researchers then conducted a series of discussions
and fact-finding sessions with each of the
top administrators, or their duty, of the 12 NBTrelated
organizations listed in Table 3. The purpose
of these discussions was to determine the administrators’
opinions about the scope and relative importance
of each of the 23 NBT issues described in
Table 2.
Based on administrators’ recommendations that
emerged from those preliminary planning meetings, a
questionnaire survey was designed that involved the
following three questions:
1. ‘‘What do you think are the 3 most important NBT
problems that need to be addressed by the General
Assembly in order to promote NBT in Pennsylvania,
and what do you recommend should be done in the
next 2–3 years to help solve them?’’
2. ‘‘Out of a list of 23 important long- and short-term
NBT-related issues that we provide, please rank those that you feel are the 5 most important ones that need
to be addressed by the General Assembly.’’
(This question was designed to explore respondents’
perception of the relative importance of the 23 issues
described in Table 2.)
3. ‘‘Out of a list of 41 specific NBT activities that we
provide, please select any one or more, and give us
your recommendation (s) as to what the Commonwealth’s
NBT policy should be regarding the
activity(s).’’
(This question was used to determine which of 41
specific NBT activities in Table 4 were perceived to be
high priority issues.)