{"id":157,"date":"2013-07-16T08:02:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T15:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shisandy\/?p=157"},"modified":"2013-07-16T18:01:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T01:01:37","slug":"module-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shisandy\/2013\/07\/16\/module-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Module 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learning to Write Survey Questions<\/span><\/p>\n

This morning, I was discussing my project with a few classmates on our way to class.\u00a0 My inquiry topic led the way to the sharing of our TOC experiences.\u00a0 Soon we were swapping TOC horror stories.\u00a0 I noticed a commonality between our stories…. showing up in a classroom and there is no day plan or schedule.\u00a0 There\u2019s no baseline or starting point.\u00a0 The TOC is completely in the dark!\u00a0 One point was brought up in the discussion: how great would be if we knew in advance which were the \u2018bad\u2019 teachers that would leave TOCs unprepared to teach in their classrooms?\u00a0 It would definitely make life easier and less stressful for the TOC.\u00a0 Speaking of which, I created a question at the end our survey that asks the contributor to include information that he\/she would want to know next time.\u00a0 I left the question open so the TOCs could interpret the question however they wanted to.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t leave the question open intentionally to get the \u2018dirty gossip\u2019 on someone, but left it open for whatever the TOC found important that we didn\u2019t include in our previous questions.\u00a0 But after some careful reflection and discussion, we modify the question to make more constructive question instead of destructive one.\u00a0 Really, does someone need to know who didn\u2019t leave a plan for the TOC?\u00a0 Yes it would help TOCs prepare if they do get called into the classroom, but is this the best way?\u00a0 We should be trying to foster a community of collaboration and transparency, not one of hostility and criticism.\u00a0 We should be providing resources and not pointing fingers.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad that we caught that misstep now, rather than after the survey went live.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t want anyone to get in trouble for my error.<\/p>\n

Another note about survey questions….<\/p>\n

In my initial draft questions, most of the questions I created required short responses.\u00a0 Since each classroom and school varies with its technology, I wanted to get an accurate representation of the technology present.\u00a0 I believed that the short responses would allow the user to describe his\/her individual situation more thoroughly.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t realize the issues that we would encounter using these types of questions.<\/p>\n

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  1. It made the survey too long (time and duration): People want to go through a survey swiftly and easily.\u00a0 Wordy and long questions will turn off people from completing the survey.<\/li>\n
  2. It made for long responses: When teachers look at the database, we don\u2019t want to overwhelmed with information.\u00a0 They should be able to find the information quickly.<\/li>\n
  3. It made it difficult to filter the information:\u00a0 Because each response will be different, we (or someone) would have to moderate the information so each answer is comparable.\u00a0 It would be more work for us (which I don’t want!).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Therefore we revised most of questions to checkbox or multiple choice answers.<\/p>\n

    Who knew writing survey question was so difficult??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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