Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
- Textbook: Chapter 1, 15, 16
- Lesson: Week 1, 7
- Minimum of 1 outside scholarly source (in addition to textbook)
Initial Post Instructions
End-of-course student surveys exist for you to share your anonymous feedback on your courses. The purpose of the survey is to gather data from a specific population (you, the students) to understand your experience in the course, and to determine areas of success and improvement in our courses, including this one (so hopefully you do share your feedback because we always want to improve our courses and teaching).
Chapter 1 of the textbook and Week 1 of this course explored the research process. As mentioned in Week 1, research is fundamental in the social sciences, and a survey is a common sociological data collection method. If we look at the course surveys from a sociological perspective, we see that they are used to understand a specific population’s perspective of a social experience/issue. For this discussion, then, you will observe and analyze and evaluate the survey itself, as the budding social scientists you all now are, based on your learning in this course!
Now, to come full circle, analyze the end-of-course surveys for their effectiveness as a sociological measurement tool.
For the initial post, respond to one of the following options, and label the beginning of your post indicating either Option 1 or Option 2:
- Option 1:How would you improve the survey itself to create the best snapshot of student impressions of this or any Chamberlain University Online course?
- Option 2: What specific change or changes would you make in the survey, or in how it is administered, in order to increase the survey’s reliability and/or validity? Remember, as you learned in Week 1, reliability is consistency in results and validity asks the question: “Are you measuring what you intended to measure?
ANSWER
First of all, I like the tactics used here to get us to take the course evaluations. I was just talking to some classmates about how we were getting emails about the end of course surveys, and we rarely do them because there are so many other things we are thinking about toward the end of the course. By having this discussion assignment, we are not only taking the survey, but we are also thinking about the importance of the survey and why it was created.
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