Jan 23 2007
Questionairres and First Ideas from Quantitative Analysis
Well finally getting my questionnaire analysis together. And it is very interesting some of the answers. It has brought to the fore how difficult it is to conduct survey questionnaires with pupils. Trying to explain why you are doing it is bad enough. And then students find it difficult to grasp you would like them to answer truthfully but explain what they are saying. Most of the Year 10 students, very much focused on the technical and design side of the weblog often thinking that through criticisms of this side that it would be annoying to me. Most of their points in fact were relevant, however the wider issues were difficult for the students to grasp. Although there was the occasional ‘I don’t care’ put more football articles on there.
The year 11 and 12 students had some more preceptive comments to make, and were thinking through ideas of communication and collaboration. But maybe as the schools ideals and styles of working individually and writing as the main element of assessment the idea of collaboration and commenting seems a waste of time. Anyway more to come when I get Year 7’s and 9’s comments in…..Have only about a week to write this thing, which is a shame as I am actually really enjoying the study and analysis. Below you can see what I wrote on the student blog to allow the students to see the analysis. Including a link to the spreadsheet online.
”I have placed the initial results on a spreadsheet for you to look at. This might be a hint as to how Business Studies students can begin to analyse their questionnaires for their coursework projects. Have not had time to think through the results that will come later on. Interesting early thoughts are simple things like those that used the email method to read the blog posts found this made the weblog more useful and reminded them when to look. Almost all of you thought that the weblog was good to find information, but very few of you related this to using links found on the site. It also seemed those that had used or are using other web tools like my Moodle or YacaPaca seemed more inclined to reap the benefits of such a weblog.
Only two of you thought deeply about what you were learning from the weblog in terms of transferable skills like research, analysis, clear writing or relation of and use of publishing as a strong medium for communication. These skills might be needed throughout your life?
Can you imagine even ten years ago being able to publish your work to the whole world. As one student put, I would love to write to the weblog if their were a million readers…hmmm….is this the egg before chicken scenario. Most weblogs build up a readership over a period of time, you cannot expect suddenly a million readers to appear can you? Anyway more to come, and I will be comparing this to the Year 7’s and 9’s view who are using their weblog in a very different way by being able to publish work and writing of their own rather than as a communication portal and tool.”
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