» Print survey
» Introduction
Print surveys offer many of the same advantages of an online survey
in terms of targeting an audience and collecting different forms
of data. They offer an additional advantage in being able to reach
across the digital divide.
The Rutgers Writing Program has twice used print surveys to assess
its web site. In each case the surveys were directed at teachers
as part of a larger research project. During 2000-2001, Mary Sheridan-Rabideau,
a member of the English faculty at Rutgers, conducted a study of
technology usage among teachers in the writing program. As part
of that study, a survey was distributed to instructors that asked,
in part, about their usage of the program web site. Responses were
limited to the web resources for our first year composition course,
101, since that was the only area of the web site completed at the
time. More recently, teachers were asked to complete a survey on
the reader for 101 which also asked, in part, for an evaluation
of the web resources.
In both cases, the sample size was small but relatively significant
(only 17 responses in the 2000-2001 general technology survey and
only 41 responses in the 2003 survey, but out of a total of just
over 100 instructors), with the results helping us to create a more
accurate picture of the overall success of the web site.
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