Surveys… the nerdy view

[imogenbertin]

Even more sorry that the bullet point formatting doesn’t appear to work on this forum!

[Tom Buckley]

I found this really enlightening.

[Kathrine Jensen]

Great post, really useful and thanks for sharing your expertise. Often people think surveys are simple tools and do not put a lot of thought into design of questions.

[jrconlon95]

Top post – really useful, thanks.  Please start your blog up again!

Jo

[AliSheph]

Imogen

Thanks for your post – I was hoping to use some questions from the examples for a student survey in the autumn – but found them quite disappointing, and had some concerns about students knowing they should give the ‘right answers’ affecting reliability.   I’ve blogged about them less eloquently than you at http://alicesadventuresinedtech.wordpress.com

Yours, however, is full of useful material, which I might take as basis for adaptation, if that’s ok with you?

 

[Niall Watts]

Thanks for sharing your survey. Did you consider using a five point scale on “What technology do you use at the moment?” to distinguish between occasional and regular use?

[ShunaMarr]

Very useful post Imogen – thanks for taking the time to share it. I didn’t realise how much I agreed with the points until I saw them all written down.

[Anortcliffe]

I agree with Imogen orginal assessment and addressing in their skills to search.

Ideally world we need to be able to assess all students digital literacy whether face or DL, from the results point them in the right direction of areas they need to learn before embarking or whilst doing their studies, emphasising this will assist their learning overall.  Not just backup, where to backup i.e. if using Cloud it needs to be on Cloud where you still retain copyright, as personal Google you don’t, flicker, instrgram, etc.   in addition need for file management, constuctive file naming and file version control.

Taught class this morning who in second year on technology related degree who don’t know how to use basic word processing formating, they have been sent away to go and learn and why they need to learn, i.e. they are submitting CV for technology job, in digital format you can’t work word it will show, raise questions about your technical abilties in operating basic software systems.

[imogenbertin]

Ali I’m so sorry!

I had not noticed that my post had got any replies until today!

You are MORE than welcome to use or adapt any questions from my survey. What I would suggest is working backwards from whatever general population digital/information literacy work is done in the UK (are there surveys carried out by the ONS on this at all?) and see if you can include some of these usefully because then your students can get a feel for where their habits lie compared to “joe public”.  I used some questions from surveys that had been carried out for semi-state bodies by commercial marketing companies which were in the public domain (both the question and the results).

[AliSheph]

Thanks Imogen.  There’s so much going on that it’s hard to remember to go back to stuff from a while ago!

 

[ElizabethECharl]

Thanks Imogen

This is a really enlightening look at questionnaires and the issue with those completing them either over-estimating their competence/abilities and the fact that surprisingly some learners still lack basic IT skills. This is why I created the web quest (during the learning design activity) to try and get a baseline of learners competency before a F2F research session took place. I echo Anortcliffe views and the frustration the learner in question may encounter in suddenly hitting this obstacle which just adds to the layers of difficulties that they have to overcome, never mind the demands of the discipline/subject.

[imogenbertin]

Niall, what options would you think should be given on the five point scale here? Would it be “not at all” to “all the time” or “never” to “often”?

Sorry for late reply…

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