As a future guidance counselor, I am interested in collecting and analyzing information from students in order to obtain the first-hand knowledge needed to provide the most effective service to school children. I will utilize online surveys in order to gather this information in a confidential manner that will allow students to feel free to provide honest and in-depth feedback in regards to a variety of critical issues and topics. This will provide valuable insight in my development of guidance lessons, group therapy topics as well as what challenges and questions are most pressing in the mind of the students.
By utilizing an emerging technology such as Survey Monkey (found at SurveyMonkey.com), I can easily create, gather and analyze information on topics of my choice. I can create my surveys from scratch with a variety of options (such as multiple choice answers, comment sections, etc.) that allow me to truly develop a customized survey that will fit my needs. I can then copy code from the survey and place it on my blog so that all of my followers can be encouraged to take the survey. I can then view and analyze the results at my discretion.
Please check out and take my survey below on school bullying (try to reflect back to your K-12 days for this one).
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ReplyDeleteI also experimented with Survey Monkey. I thought it was user friendly and I liked the different question types. I never thought about the benefit of the survey's being confidential. I think that is a good advantage especially in a counseling setting. In order to ensure complete anonymity you may want to select change the IP address settings. Under the Collector Settings click on Change Settings, then choose "No, the respondent's IP address will not be stored in the survey results."
~Jenny C-J
I teach at an intermediate school. The counselor at our building does a guidance lesson with each class 1-2 times per semester. If you choose to do general guidance lessons you could use Survey Monkey to create a general survey at the beginning of the year. The results of the survey could help you determine what your guidance lessons need to cover.
ReplyDeleteSurveyMonkey seems so user-friendly. The anonymity and variety in questions really make this a great tool to use. Your short example of school bullying even got me thinking that maybe there is a way a survey can pop-up on computers in the computer lab. In this way so many of the students have to use the computer labs at different times. If they were all asked to fill out short surveys counselors, teachers and administrators would be able to gauge information on issues like bullying.
ReplyDelete-Tara Kenjockety
I have used this type of survey in my class for the exact reasons you were talking about. The bullying survey is such a wonderful way to get results and feedback when students aren't as verbal due to their age, speech ability and not wanting to be seen as a tattle tail. I plan on using this type of survey often also for feedback on ways to improve lessons and units. Great post and references, very thought provoking.
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