Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Will this dog hunt?

How I am going to do this…

I have begun to think about my little project and have come up with some ideas as to how I should proceed. Below is a tentative list.

LIST

  1. Write a proposal to show the chair of my department (I need his permission for this).
  2. Include a survey and encourage him to make suggestions as to the questions.
  3. My survey must be professional quality. It must attempt to answer the questions I have posed. This is going to be the hardest part of this project.
  4. To that end I have found some URLs that have tips on how to write a survey that will answer your research questions.
  5. http://www.syberworks.com/elpodcast2_transcript.htm Lots of information - very useful
  6. http://www.syberworks.com/articles/14surveytips.htm
  7. http://www.syberworks.com/survey.htm Free trial for survey software
  8. Begin preparing my student s for the survey and encouraging them to answer it.
  9. A few friendly forays into this should begin now.
  10. Sample post in the discussion.

Hi Ya’ll,
I have noticed that nobody visits my office hours. I was really hoping some of you would stop by so I could get to know you better. What’s the problem? Are the scheduled hours inconvenient for you? I know you all work and have families so I would make changes to accommodate you. Just let me know.


Well, what do you guys think? Do you have any suggestions?
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7 comments:

  1. NancyMarch 18, 2009 at 1:13 PM

    Don't worry about office hours--unless you schedule at night, most of them will not be there because they're working. If they need to talk to you, they'll let you know. If you want to use my class for the survey, just let me know.

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  2. JoshMarch 18, 2009 at 5:48 PM

    Hi Suzon,

    In my last research class I found this site quite valuable...
    http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/survey.php

    I hope you do.

    As far as online survey tools, I think there are three real (for pay) leaders... SurveyMonkey, Questionpro, and Zoomerang. (I think they all have free trials.)
    If you're a Google devotee, you can try using Google Docs to create a survey.

    Good luck!

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  3. Suzon PetersonMarch 19, 2009 at 12:55 PM

    Josh, I liked the website very much - it gives me a starting point.

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  4. NancyMarch 19, 2009 at 1:32 PM

    Look at this (survey-wise)
    http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Research/NECC_Research_Paper_Archives/NECC_2006/Radlick_Michael_NECC06.pdf

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  5. Zoomerang BlogMarch 20, 2009 at 4:02 AM

    Zoomerang offers a free basic membership limited to 30 questions/100 respondents per survey. You can also find online survey tips and suggestions on the Zoomerang blog and at the Zoomerang website. Feel free to send me any questions you may have.
    -Donna

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  6. Michael J. NathansonMarch 20, 2009 at 9:44 PM

    I agree with Nancy, Office hours are next to useless. In three years I might have had 5 students. Its just something left over from a era without Email.

    Mike

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  7. Michael J. NathansonMarch 22, 2009 at 9:04 PM

    Do you know if anyone has ever studied if these kind of surveys are factual? I know I am a pretty bad survey taker myself and wonder if others tend to just blow through surveys to get them over with?

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