The
survey was created for students from grades 6-12. The Study Hall Program is in its third
term. Quantatative data will be
collected from four terms of marks as well to accompany the survey.
I
had eight people take part in my Focus Group.
I had four students from grades six, seven, ten, and twelve and two male
and two female adults complete the survey and assist me in creating a useable
product. The group worked from a paper
copy and when the final product is completed, it too will be given to the
students in a paper copy as this will be the quickest and most efficient way to
do it at the school level.
This
was a great experience for me. Having a
group of people look at your work and critisize is not always the most
comfortable thing but when you are expecting it, it makes it a little easier to
take. It reminded me how in important in
Instructional Design it is to have a product that everybody understands exactly
what the author is asking.
1. What grade are you in?
I
figured that this would be easy enough but what I didn't think of was in out
split classes the students would put down the teacher that was in charge. I was looking for a more specific
answer. It was suggested that I give a
selection for the grades. This question was changed so that a grade will be
selected.
2.
Are you male or female?
I
received the most response from this question.
I had seen a survey that had similar participants use this question and
included it with mine. After receiving
feedback, I came to a conclusion that this information is really not necessary
for my survey. In fact, it seemed kind
of silly after I thought about it. In
fact one participant-“this is silly Mr. Wandler!” It was eliminated in the final survey.
3.
Do you find that your assignments are being completed on time with the help of
Study Hall?
One
of the responses sparked an idea for me that I should include this as a rating scale question. This gave me an idea to write several of
these questions.
4.
Do you find that your assignments are being completed on time with the help
of Study Hall?
The
biggest critisism for this question was that is was a yes or no question. I made this a range question as well.
5. What are some things that prevent or hinder
you from completing assignments?
This
question was also changed to a range question from the feedback. The suggestion was made to not use hinder as
a descriptor. I eliminated the question.
6. Read each sentence below and put an x where
you feel your response fits.
This
was fine with the focus group. They
liked that they were able to choose all that applied. I looked at the format and felt I would clean
that up by making each question a rating scale.
7. Tell us what is good about
Study Hall. What should stay the same?
This
question was appreciated as it was a way to list the things in the Focus
Group’s likes towards Study Hall.
8.
How would you change Study Hall to make
it better?
Same
feedback as previous question.
The feedback I received from this survey
was invaluable. Not only did I gain a
better understanding of what Study Hall meant to each person, but I was able to
create additional questions derived from their responses. Studying
the Focus Group’s answers made it more clear to me as to what questions I
wanted to use as rating scale questions.
This assignment was invaluable to me as I was able to see how important
it is to get outside help when creating surveys such as this.
