Survey Information

Using Surveys to better teach online
helps to eliminate guesswork! use data driven solutions and data driven decision-making to more effectively teach

-use surveys to find out about your student's learning styles and computer acumen (pre)

-use surveys to better understand how your distance course is received and from this information evaluate your course and make adjustments to create a better course (post)

-use "live" surveys to better judge student comprehension of the current lessons while the lessons are in progress (during)

survey site information
using surveys inside of webct

thoughts:

it is possible to "over-survey" a population of students

better to survey early, in the middle and at the end then just one time at the end because beginning and middle surveys allow flexibility and ability to change circumstances to meet the demands of the respondents

don't ask questions that you don't want answered

likert scale can start positive or negative

Using WebCT as a survey instrument

Online survey hosting services (free)

• none - there is always a catch... first 30 days, number of responses, limited functionality

Online survey hosting services (money)

• Survey Monkey - http://www.surveymonkey.com/ : Intelligent survey software for serious primates of all species. SurveyMonkey has a single purpose: to enable anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily. Find out what everyone is talking about... ($20.00 per month)
  • http://www.surveymonkey.com/Pricing.asp : Survey Monkey's pricing structure... plus a list of links to competitor sites.
• Zoomerang - http://info.zoomerang.com/ : Popular tool. Has option for a free account (up to 100 respondents) - other pricing structures vary.

Surveys are part of data driven teaching models:

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a few urls visited during research:

http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=164300821 = Online Survey Checklist article
http://www.e-lead.org/resources/resources.asp?ResourceID=21 = e-lead (Washington, DC) - Data Driven Decision Making
http://www.thesnorkel.org/toolkit/articles/Program_Assessment_Surveys.pdf = general "about surveys" article
http://www.indiana.edu/~nsse/index.htm - National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)
http://measuringup.highereducation.org/survey.cfm = National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education - their report card(s)
http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/assmt/resource.htm = Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment from NC State (chock full)
http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?page_id=6323&bhcp=1#6 = interesting educause article round-up
http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/lta/archives/lta20.php = Maricopa Community Colleges Low Threshold Applications page = making SPSS data available for use in excel
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html = critical evaluation survey forms to help kids critically evaluate the WWW from Kathy Schrock
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/sat_survey/survey.htm = from British Columbia Ministry - Satisfaction surveys
http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/survey/reports/fy03/fy03survey.htm = NC State First Year Student survey 2003
http://www.sreb.org/programs/EdTech/pubs/Survey/surveyinstruments.asp = Southern Regional Education Board - Technology survey samples (older)
http://www.websurveyor.com/splash_content.asp?c=540&rsvp=&ref=edugrant05& = a come-on to get you to use their instrument
http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/ltdi/cookbook/info_likert_scale/ = about the likert scale (LEARNING TECHNOLOGY DISSEMINATION INITIATIVE, Scotland) - drive around - GOOD!
http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~ctalk/faqs/isit4me.htm = = Striving toward excellence in large classroom teaching (by Chiu, updated 4/13/04)
http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~ctalk/ = UT-Interactive-Teaching Support Project - Home Page
http://www.einstruction.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=HigherEd.Display&header=HigherEd&content=achieve = einstruction page for higher education
http://www.flaguide.org/cat/attitude/attitude1.php = Eileen and Elaine's attitude survey idea - this is nice... spot on
http://www.washington.edu/oea/describe.htm = IAS from OEA (University Washington)
http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/surveyquest/index.htm = Encyclopedia of Educational Technology, San Diego State - about types of surveys
http://www.statpac.com/surveys/question-qualities.htm = Statpac survey service... about quality questions
http://www.ryerson.ca/~mjoppe/ResearchProcess/WriteBetterQuestion.htm = 14 tips on how to write better questions
http://www.spss.com/ = SPSS home site
http://www.hmrp.net/CanadianOutcomesInstitute/projects/pdf_common/SurveyQuestionChecklist.pdf = handy checklist