Anyone want to do a survey for me?

[noamnety]

I had to put this together for a class I'm taking. We had to just to have a few people within the class fill it out for the assignment, but I am curious about the larger results.

So if anyone is bored enough to do an 18 question (17 if you don't have extra comments) anonymous survey about your educational experiences and attitudes, that would be nifty. I can post up the results in a few days, after some people have done it. (Or if nobody's done it, then, well, no results for you all.)

link to survey: http://www.zoomerang.com/recipient/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB226PTWD7U3R

[Adsos Letter]

1. Done...

good luck with that.
:D

[The Straight Story]

2. done (nt)

[noamnety]

3. Thanks!

5 people answered so far. :)

[Scooter24]

4. done

:)

[noamnety]

6. thank you!

I notice DUers are better at filling it out than my fellow students, who skipped a lot of questions. :)

[Scooter24]

7. I had to think...

the Kindergarten scenario made me think a bit. I'm not good with small kids so I did the best I could :)

[noamnety]

11. I'm sending you a PM about that question. (nt)

[Rosemary2205]

5. I added my 2 cents

[chknltl]

8. Done...

btw: I felt the question of gender of teacher who most impacted me to be unfair. I suggest adding a third response: Both equally. I have had a great many of my teachers impact me both favorably and in two cases unfavorably. (Got swatted once, deserved that and slapped in the face once, did not deserve that, and yes I am that old!)

[noamnety]

9. hmmm.

I don't want to change it midstream, but I see your point. I didn't consider that some people couldn't pick one teacher who influenced them the most.

[VenusRising]

10. Done.

:hi:

[noamnety]

12. a morning kick (nt)

[buddhamama]

13. Done.

:)

[AwakeAtLast]

14. Done

I will say that your ranking of how we spent our time in high school might be skewed by those of us who didn't have computers in high school. I'm only 37, but computers were not even a part of our day in high school, other than the 40 minutes we got in one computer class.

[noamnety]

17. That's a good point.

I'm a little older than you - we only had one computer at my entire college that students could use - we had to sign up for 15 minutes of access to do our homework in the math&computing course.

I saw some of the people left that blank, and it didn't dawn on me why.

I have to write up a short summary of the survey for class tomorrow, that (and another earlier comment requesting an additional option on one question) will definitely go into the self-critique I have to do - so thank you for posting that!

[sarge43]

35. When I was in high school,

computers were room filling banks of whirling disks and blinking lights operating by men in white body suits. It was unimaginable that the day would come we'd have one in our laps, more powerful than those monsters - strictly science fiction stuff.

[Lyric]

15. Done! :) nt

[FloridaJudy]

16. I'm another who had no computers in High School

Heck, we didn't even have pocket calculators back then. We used slide rules (and were grateful grumble grumble=crabby old person rant).

[noamnety]

18. lol

I like the idea of asking whether you spent more time in high school playing sports, or using a slide rule. :D

[nuxvomica]

19. The personal computer wasn't invented yet when I was in school

I even avoided Statistics I in college cuz I'd have to gingerly carry stacks of punchcards around campus.

[dembotoz]

20. remember slide rules?

wish i remember how they worked.

would be cool to pull one out now every now and then and just watch the jaws drop.

[davsand]

21. I do think respondent's age influences on several of those answers.

I'm 47 and there was a BIG difference in the cultural views of females and academic achievement back in the 60's. Boys were not expected to do well in certain subjects (penmanship and spelling for example) and girls were not expected to do well in other areas like math and science.

Literally, there was an attitude in some subjects that they were "male" subjects.



Laura

[noamnety]

22. My mother's friend

had to retake her standardized tests because her first results were thrown out - she'd scored better on math than verbal, so it was invalidated. On the retake, she scored the same way, so they decided to let her use her scores after all.

I'll note that an age question would be helpful - thanks!

[sarge43]

34. Very true.

My high school was considered advanced, even radical, because for one semester girls took shop and boys, home-ec.

[dajoki]

23. Done n/t

:hi:

[femmocrat]

24. Done. No computers in our HS either.

[Midlodemocrat]

25. Done and btw, check your PM.

:hi:

[libodem]

26. done

Hope the results support your theory or expectations or what ever you need. good luck.

[Name removed]

27. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[xmas74]

28. done. nt

[noamnety]

29. just to clarify

about that deleted post, it was nothing offensive, I just asked to have it deleted because the person embedded an animated gif that was almost 2mb, which didn't add to the thread.

[Gormy Cuss]

30. I'm the one who handled the K teacher question this way:

lwfern made me delete my answer and then she sent me to the corner to wear a dunce cap. Mean teacher.

;(

[noamnety]

31. actually, can you edit that out real quick?

and check your pm's in a minute. :D

It is pretty funny though.

[Gormy Cuss]

32. okay, but no way will I vote for you as my favorite teacher. n/t

[noamnety]

33. Hey!!!

Did I say you could talk yet?!!

:The Look:

[purr]

36. did it :)

[BlooInBloo]

37. Oh - you mean *participate in* a survey - lol! That changes my feeling drastically.

[BlooInBloo]

38. Flaw in the survey...

#6 - Most of my teachers were women k-12, and mostly men thereafter. And I don't differ from most of America on this. Therefore, (a) the amount of education the respondent has had - which is NOT asked on the survey - will significantly affect their answer to this, and (b) people with post-high school scholastic experience will give unreliable answers to this, because the correct answer is so close to 50%.

#16 - The respondent is *necessarily* not in a position to answer this knowledgeably.


Suggestions: Either add a question directly aimed at scholastic experience, else restrict #6 to a statistically relevant class. Also, rephrase #16 to at least give the respondent a *shot* an knowing the correct answer.

[noamnety]

41. I'm not sure I'm fully understanding the comments on #16

"Have most of your teachers treated students the same, regardless of gender?"

Are you saying a better question is "based on what you observed in your classes, did most of your teachers treat students the same, regardless of gender?"

I think you mean a lot of things could have happened without you knowing about it, yes?

[BlooInBloo]

42. Yuppers.... I assume the goal is a consistency-check with a previous question...

... but the chosen wording for 16 goes too far, in requiring knowledge not available to the respondent.

[hfojvt]

45. I said the same thing about K-6

but 7-12 was about an even split for me, but in that I am counting the teachers who were in the school, not the teacher I actually had.

I assumed that #16 was looking for perception.

[mitchum]

39. Done

[noamnety]

43. Thank you! (nt)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

40. Done!

[noamnety]

44. Thanks!

If there's one thing the folks here are good for, it's DUing polls. :D