Survey Monkey (http://www.surveymonkey.com/) is a website designed for users to build a survey to collect data and have the site collect and report the responses in a graphic format. Although there a free component for limited use, upgrading is possible for a relatively low price for operations that need to conduct many surveys with many respondents.
Uses in the online classroom. Instructors, who use quizzes in their classroom to test for understanding of the readings, might use Survey Monkey to construct a short series of questions that would require the learner to either choice an answer (i.e. multiple choice questions) or answer in a short essay. Instructors might also use Survey Monkey to develop an interest survey, or collect demographic information.
Benefits. Survey Monkey can be use at no charge with limited access to the many features. Instructors and learners alike can use the site to gather information. The reports are adequate, reporting in bar graph form the responses to each choice in the question. Survey monkey has a nice bank of tutorials and very strong help section for the user.
Weaknesses. The free service limits the number of survey items to ten and only 100 respondents. Of course the creative instructor can do a series of tests. There are other features that are disabled for the basic account also, but it can be used.
Challenges. An instructor who wants to construct a test over 10 questions may wish to look for other online sites to build a test. Other sites might be: QuizStar, ExamBuilder, QuizBuilder and Zoomerang. As with all online communication, wording is important.
Examples of application of the tool in an online classroom. This list is not, nor is it meant to be all-inclusive. However, let’s look at some applications of online survey and quiz building tools at the K-12 and academic levels.
Instructors can collect data about the learners at the beginning of a class to help the instructors understand where the learner is in terms of demographics (age, gender, education, etc.), technology use (beginner, comfortable, expert), if they are familiar with the CMS software, etc.
Quizzes and tests might be constructed by the instructor to access the depth of understanding of the readings assigned.
Survey instruments might be used by the learners to collect data that would be used during the class to prove a hypothesis.
Examples of learning objectives.
Learners will pass a 20-question multiple-choice test with 90% proficiency.- Learners will build, test and survey 25 people.
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1 comment:
Kathy: You did a great job on your part of the midterm. Survey Monkey is valuable for precourse surveys as you said.
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