This document outlines a survey about students' experiences with online learning. It contains 5 open-ended questions about what students like about online courses, how age and gender affected their choice of online learning, their future plans to take online courses, their satisfaction with online learning accomplishments, and their views of their institution compared to others. The document discusses keeping the survey engaging with varied question types, avoiding predictability and monotony, and keeping it short with a feedback option to quickly obtain and review results.

1. EDU 652 Week 5
Assignment
Creating a effective Survey Instrument
Thomas Wilson
Lisa Marie Johnson
August 20, 2013

2. Question 1.
 1. In your own words describe what you like most
about Online Learning in College Courses offered
where you are currently or previously had been
enrolled.

3. Question 2.
 2. Please describe in your own words how you
believe your age and gender factored into selecting
an Online Learning format as a viable option for
your particular situation.

4. Question 3.
 3. How likely will you be to continue to pursue your
future educational goals with Online Learning
Curriculums similar to what you have experienced
to date?

5. Question 4.
 4. How satisfied are you, using your own words,
with your accomplishments through Online
Learning with your College, and do you have any
regrets if any about how things went during your
studies?

6. Question 5
 . 5 Finally, please tell what you believe about your
alma mater compared to other similar institutions
of
 Higher Learning; that you have come to think of it,
since you have completed a level of study there?
 (Associate, Baccalaureate, etc.)

7. Takeaways which we can
derive from this sample
survey…
 The survey population as we said were kept
engaged by the type of questions we chose.
 We did not use repetitive or monotonous questions
to glean information.
 We were attempting to get the participants to be
more forthcoming by making these an essay type of
questions.

8. We made sure we kept the
audience from becoming
antsy or distracted…
 we made sure that they were not able to anticipate
the next question by being predictable or like any
other survey they had previously taken.

9. We were determined to keep
our survey moving forward..
 by not being mundane or using inane styles of
query.

10. And finally we come to the
one of the most important
aspects of our survey…
 TO keep it SHORT!!!

11. We provide a feedback
commentary option at the
end of the survey…
 In order to find out as quickly as possible from the
sample population we ask for feedback as a type of
exit polling strategy…

12. We quickly collate and
review the data as quickly
as possible….
 We want to reveal the results from the survey as
soon as possible to the participating organization
to explain what the results indicate…

13. References
 I American Association For Public Opinion Research
We give the guiding principles from AAFPO for our survey best practices
 http://www.aapor.org/Best_Practices1.htm
II Constant Contact Online Survey
We discuss the second most important principle at
length of their 12 best practice principles; Principle # 2 “Keep it short” (the survey)
 http://img.constantcontact.com/docs/pdf/Top12SurveyBestPractices.pdf
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