| Based on what selected students'
signs said: |
| Do you agree with the words scribbled on the back of a chair: “Students
learn what they do” and another chair, “What
are you learning sitting here?” |
How many classes are you taking this term?
In how many of
theses classes do you learn
when you are in class? |
On average what percentage of your class time is lecture?
What percentage of your class time is group activity?
What percentage class time is spent doing or creating?
What percentage is other
What?
|
One girl's sign said
"I completed 49% of assignments assigned to me,
26 were relevant to my life" |
What percentage of assignments do you complete?
|
What percentage of your assignments
are relevant to your life?
|
| A man stated on his laptop "I buy hundred dollar textbook that I
never open" |
About how much did you spend for textbooks
this term? $
What percentage of the total pages in the texts that you've bought
do you estimate you read?
|
What percentage of your homework time
is spent reading the text?
What percentage of your homework time is group activity?
What percentage homework time is spent doing or creating?
What percentage other?
|
One woman's sign said "This year I will read 8 books
2300 web pages
1281 Facebook profiles |
About how many books will you read this year?
About how many web pages do you read in a week?
|
About how many MySpace pages
do you visit in a week?
About how many Facebook
profiles
do you visit in a week?
|
| Which of the following do you have? (check all that apply) |
MySpace
Facebook
a blog
a website
cellphone
ipod |
| How many of these have your professors used to communicate in
the last year (enter 0, 1, 2, etc.) |
MySpace
Facebook blog
website
a message board
webCT/Blackboard
IM
Chat
email
Telephone
podcasts
|
| Which of these would you like to use to communicate with your professors? |
MySpace
Facebook
a blog
a website
a message board
webCT
Blackboard |
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IM
|
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chat
|
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email
|
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telephone
|
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podcasts |
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other |
| Another woman's sign said "I will write 42 pages for class this
semester and over 500 pages of email" |
About how many pages do you write for classes in one
semester? |
About how many emails do you send in a semester? |
| One student's sign said "I spend 1 ½ hours watching TV each
night" |
How many hours a week do you watch TV?
|
What are 1 or 2 of your favorite shows? |
| Another's sign said "I spend 3 ½ hours a day online" |
How many hours a day do you spend online?
|
What sites do you visit most frequently? |
| Another "3 Hours studying" |
How many hours a day do you study?
|
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| A man's sign said "I work 2 hours every day" |
How many hours a day do you
work?
take care of family?
|
What do you do?
|
One pair of signs said "When I graduate I will probably have
a job
that doesn’t exist today" |
Are you coming to college to train for a specific job?
Yes
No
|
What career do you plan to pursue? |
One student showed a Scantron form which when turned over
says
"Filling this out won’t help me get there." |
What percentage of tests are Scantron graded?
What percentage of tests are memorization of facts?
|
Do you feel you learn anything from Scantron graded tests?
Yes
No
Why or Why not? |
One woman's signs said "I did not create the problems
But they are my problems" |
Are you concerned with the world's problems (global warming,
poverty, war...)
Yes
No
|
How could college education help you solve these problems?
|
| How much control over the assignments do you have? |
Do professors give you any choice over what you do
to learn the material? |
Do you think more control over assignments
would
help you learn morel?
|
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OPTIONAL
How old are you?
|
Either
What is your name?
email or
Why did you not want to identify yourself?
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Did you enjoy taking this survey Yes
No
Do you want to add anything else? |