Sunday, March 1, 2009

Thing 10

I created a survey on Google Docs and thought I was being very clever. I have a class called developing skills. It is a special education class where students can bring their work from their general education classes to the resource room to get help. It is a chance for re-teaching and practice. It is like study-hall-plus. I am required to give a trimester exam. In previous trimesters, the exam has been an essay exam. Students need to reflect on their successes and what they did to be successful. They also have to reflect on where they weren't successful, why they weren't successful, and what they need to do differently. Written expression is usually a weak area for learning disabled students so an essay of this length can be challenging for some students. I thought creating a survey would be a good way to do the exam. I created some questions that were checklists, some that were on a sliding scale, and a few essay questions. The problem is that I need to be able to view individual responses. I really don't need to compile the data into one report. I can't figure out if I can get individual reports on this survey. If I can't, I won't be able to use it as an exam. Creating it was a good learning experience, though. I learned how to create questions and to edit and move questions around.

2 comments:

  1. If you make the student's name one of the questions, you'll be able to see who said what. Each response to the survey will have its own row in a spreadsheet. If the students type in their name for the 1st question, you'll see each name in the first column. What a cool idea!

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  2. Thanks, Jim. I added a question for each student's name. Kids will take the exam Thursday. I'm excited to see how it goes.

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