Survey Design
Overview of the Program: The College Exploration Program (CEP) targets current high school students from grades 10 to 12, who are about to leave school and seeks to provide an experience of being in college. The program is also geared towards changing the myths about vocational education.
Targeted Audience: Students who participated in the C E P in 2008 and 2009
Sample Size: 100 students who participated in the program in 2008 and 2009
Survey Goal: The goal of the survey is to see how those students that participated in the programme benefited and how it can be improved.
Questions Before Modifications
Instruction: Answer all questions
1. Age: ▭ 15 years ▭ 16 years ▭ 17 years ▭ 18 years ▭ others (specify)_____
2. How did you hear about the programme?
▭ Internet
▭ School counsellor
▭ Friend
▭ Newspaper
▭ Flyers
▭ Others (specify) ______________
3. What are your views on Technical and Vocational education? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. How would you rate the overall performance of the program?
▭ Good ▭ Satisfactory ▭ Needs improvement ▭ Poor
5. Would you recommend this programme to other students? ____Yes ____No
Feedback on Survey Questions
Before the survey questions were designed, the target group was identified and the goal defined. Having that done, I had to decide what information was needed in order to design the survey questions. Suggestion for modifications varied as each person had a different view on the changes to be made to the survey questions. They are as follows: The first person recommended that the ‘s’ be removed from questions one and two. She person also suggested that another stem, “excellent” be added to question 4. The second person suggested that questions four and five be revisited. He also suggested that question 4 be reworded to “How do you rate the program?” instead of “How would you rate the overall performance of the program?” since the performance of the program would not be so measureable by the students, but by the actually superiors and resource personnel who worked on the program. The same individual suggested that question which would illicit more information be used instead of a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ responses for question five. He recommends that the following be used instead, “Why would you recommend this program to another student?” The third person indicated that all the questions were fine, while the fourth person suggested that an age range be used for question one instead of using the exact year.
All four participants were satisfied with question three, as there were no suggestions for changes to be made. Modifications were done to questions four and five and the ‘s’ was removed from ‘others’ in questions one and two. I decided not to use an age range as was suggested for question one, since a range would not capture the type of feedback that I am looking for from students who participate in the program.
Modification done to Survey Questions after Feedback
Instruction: Answer all questions
1. Age: ▭ 15 years ▭16 years ▭17 years ▭ 18 years ▭ other (specify) ________
2. How did you hear about the programme?
▭ Internet
▭ School counsellor
▭ Friend
▭ Newspaper
▭ Flyers
▭ Other (specify) ______________
3. What are your views on Technical and Vocational education? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. How would you rate the program?
▭ Excellent ▭ Good ▭ Satisfactory ▭ Needs improvement ▭ Poor
5. Would you recommend this programme to other students? ____Yes ____No
State the reason(s) for your response _______________________________________
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