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Students Group:
GDC 10/05/01


Students (Categorizer)

What information do you need this survey to provide?

1. WE NEED ALL THE INFORMATION WE TALKED ABOUT ON MONDAY

2. WHAT STUDENTS THINK ABOUT COMPOSIION CLASSES

people think composiion class is boring {#8}

past experience {#10}

thoughts about professors & teachers {#14}

3. WE SHOULD ASK PEOPLE QUESTIONS

4. STUDENTS HISTORY WITH COMPOSITION

5. GPA INFO

6. MAJOR

7. TEACHER PERFORMANCE IN COMP

8. WE NEED TO ASK STUDENTS IF THEY GET BORED IN COMP, AND WHY THEY GET BORED IN COMP

9. GIVE THEM OPTIONS OF WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE CHANGE ABOUT COMP

See if they have any ideas on what would make comp more benificial? {#43}

What questions will help you get that information?

1. WHAT IS YOUR GPA AT NDSU

what about transfer students? {#24}

2. DID YOU LIKE COMP IF YOU HAVE TAKEN IT BEFORE

3. ARE YOU IN COMP, 0R HAVE YOU TAKEN COMP?

have you had to take composition more than once?

credits did not transfer, or failed? {#29}

4. WHAT DO YOU FEEL THE BENEFITS OF COMP ARE?

5. WHAT DO YOU THINK HAS GONE WRONG IN THE TEACHING OF COMP?

6. WHY DO STUDENTS DISLIKE COMP?

is it the teachers? {#45}

the work? {#46}

how materials are presented? {#48}

The fact that they have to work too much at it {#53}

the fact that no matter how much they write they still are bad writers {#54}

7. WOULD YOU RATHER TAKE A SEPERATE COMP CLASS OR WOULD YOU RATHER DO YOUR WRITING REQUIREMENTS IN YOUR CLASSES FOR YOUR MAJOR

ie-> learning to write what will be written in your field once in the working world {#44}

8. iS COMP NECESSARY

9. DOES COMP HELP YOU WRITE BETTER?

ie -> grammar, sentence structure, etc {#34}

Is a general comp class a good way to get you to be able to write better? {#37}

10. WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT STATUS AT NDSU (FRESH, SOPH, JUNIOR, SENIOR, SUPERSENIOR)

11. DO YOU FEEL THAT COMP CLASSES HAVE HELPED YOU BECOME A BETTER WRITER

what types of activities have helped with this? {#36}

..... or how have they helped {#38}

Does this improvement in your writing ability transfer to other classes? {#40}

Or have they made you a worse writer? {#41}

12. WHAT SKILLS WOULD YOU LIKE TO GET OUT OF COMP?

we would have to come up with a list of possible skills for this question....make it multiple choice. {#42}

13. We need to have demographical questions so we can classify people

We need to be able to see what kinds of people like comp

and who doesn't like comp

and who thinks comp is worthless and should be taken out of the required courses {#49}

age {#50}

sex {#51}

class {#52}

on or off campus? {#56}

who's not using all caps? {#57}

Troubleshooting

1. CAN'T GET TOO PERSONAL

don't inquire questions about income, etc. {#21}

2. NEED TO MAKE QUESTIONS UNDERSTANDABLE

multiple choice and t/f are easiest to comprehend w/o too much thought {#55}

3. CAN'T WRITE A BIASED SURVEY

4. WE WILL HAVE TO ALLOW BYPASSING

Students Group (Categorizer)

Students Group (Categorizer)

What features does your introducation need to have?

1. INTRO

introduce the class and the point for this survey {#16}

time it will take to do the survey for the surveyee {#23}

how long will it take to do our survey? {#26}

2. DESCRIPTION

this survey is for? {#18}

3. INVITE

all students within and about ndsu {#25}

4. TIME FRAME

2 - 3 weeks? {#27}

how long do we have before we have to write our report on the results of this survey? {#29}

5. CONTACT PERSON

i nominate bb {#15}

as long as I don't get nominated I'm all about it {#22}

who is bb? it better not be me? {#31}

our teacher {#35}

ooh..ok...because those are my initials too {#38}

bb -> Betsy Birmingham {#44}

it can be all of you {#45}

no.... {#46}

or we could all be the contact people {#48}

I don't want to be contacted, I don't have time for that {#56}

we can do the contact through email...that way you dont have to reply right away...or if we put all of us then we wont all have to do the work {#61}

6. HOW THE INFORMATION IS GOING TO BE USED

to see what students at ndsu think about composition classes {#20}

To see how comp should be changed at ndsu {#24}

and to generate new ideas for different programs that could be implemented {#28}

possibly a presentation at the end of the semester to the english department or ....... {#30}

possibly a presentation to the people that could change the policy on comp classes {#33}

What features does your closing need to have?

1. HOW THE INFORMATION IS GOING TO BE USED

presentation, class productivity, etc {#34}

we already answered this question {#49}

2. A THANK YOU

to those who participated and helped in forming the survey {#32}

thank you for your time, remember to tip your waitresses on the way out {#39}

3. PROVIDE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE RESULTS OF SURVEY

4. PLACE FOR THE QUESTIONEE TO ASK FOR RESULTS

What demographic information do you want about your participants?

1. CLASS

freshman, sophomore, junior, senior {#36}

supersenior {#40}

2. MALE FEMALE

What styles of questions will help you gather the info you need?

1. Multiple choice questions

Multiple choice questions will be easy and quick to answere and give us more info than T/F in most cases {#47}

you can do filters on multiple choice {#50}

fewer people would skip the questions if they didn't have to write a book about their answere {#54}

2. RATING SYSTEM 1-10

3. YES NO....WITH COMMENT BOXES

some people might not put anything in the comment boxes, because that requires thaught {#52}

but it might help with your data {#53}

at least one or two of these could give us ideas some new ideas {#58}

even if only a few people answere them {#59}

we would also have to read through all the answers in these boxes {#60}

4. agree/disagree

with 1 - 5 for strongly agree to strongly disagree {#51}

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Elizabeth Birmingham
Assistant Professor, Department of English
320J Minard Hall
North Dakota State University
Fargo, North Dakota 58105

Office: (701) 231-6587
e-mail: Elizabeth.Birmingham@ndsu.nodak.edu

Prospective students may schedule a visit by calling: 1-800-488-NDSU.

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