Survey Says (Part 1 of 5)
Survey Says (Part 1 of 5): Using Surveys in Education If you’ve been in education for more than a few years, then you’ve probably lost track of the number of surveys you’ve had to participate in, either as a creator or respondent. Often, when we take surveys, our minds reach a point of thinking, “I’d…
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Survey Says (Part 2 of 5)
Survey Says (Part 2 of 5): Planning Your Survey Using Surveys in Education Let’s take a look back at the questions one through four I posed in the first installment of this series. For the other questions, please see Survey Says part 1. Why is this survey necessary? Is this survey worth the time it…
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Survey Says (Part 3 of 5)
Survey Says (Part 3 of 5): Creating Your Survey In the first two installments of this 5-part series, I focused on the necessary process of planning your survey, which includes an honest consideration of whether you even need a survey at all and a specific linkage of your survey to your strategic planning documents. Once…
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Survey Says (Part 4 of 5)
Survey Says (Part 4 of 5) : Making Sense of Your Numerical Data To be honest, I considered putting this installment first in the series instead of last. You may wonder why, but you won’t be surprised at the answer: planning. By the time you’re looking at the data from your survey, the only things…
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Survey Says (Part 5 of 5)
Survey Says (Part 5 of 5) : Text as Data Dealing with Text Data It’s almost a given that you’re going to feel compelled to include an item at the end of every survey that asks the respondent for any additional feedback. This isn’t necessarily a bad idea. But as with all things I’ve covered…
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