| Who | Dept | Do you or does your unit need to gather survey data via the web? | How central is this data-gathering to the accomplishment of your mission at UVM? | Are you already addressing this need? If so, with what tools? | What requirements would you have of tools for deploying and gathering data from web-based surveys? | If a common tool for web-based surveys was available to you, how would you make use of it to accomplish your mission or to reduce cost? |
| Tim Raymond | EMBA | We get many requests from faculty to have surveys. Mostly to judge their performance in teaching classes. | This is central to UVM's mission. | We have a home written set of web pages to setup the survey and for people to take the survey. A canned package would *probably* be better than ours. | option of authentication of taker option of anonymity of the takers answers, defined by survey owner Questions should be of the form T/F, Mult. choice, discussion. Extensive reporting on the results Start time and end time for taking the survey | It would be used to:give surveys to students in classes to judge teaching performance. give surveys to students to find out more overall needs from the College. |
| Lynn Cummings | Continuing Ed. | ABSOLUTELY | NEEDS ASSESSMENTS, EVALUATIONS, SURVEYS, ETC. ARE CRITICAL TO THE WORK AT UT&D | ALEX RECENTLY PURCHASED PERSEUS FOR US TO USE BUT I HAVEN'T GOTTEN AROUND TO LEARNING IT YET BUT NEED TO DO SO ASAP | USER-FRIENDLY DATABASE, PRESET TEMPLATES THAT ALLOW FOR SOME CUSTOMIZATION | SEE PREVIOUS QUESTIONS - PROGRAM PLANNING, CURRICULUM UPDATING, INSTRUCTOR FEEDBACK, ETC. COULD BE DONE MUCH MORE EFFICIENTLY WITH WEB FORMS AS OPPOSED TO PAPER FORMS. WE'D SAVE ON PAPER, COPYING, POSTAGE, DATA ENTRY LABOR COSTS, ETC. IF IT'S EASY TO USE IT WOULD REDUCE STAFF TIME ON TASKS THAT COULD BE DONE ELECTRONICALLY. |
| Mike George | Psychology | Possibly, but not definitively | Helpful, but not mission-critical | No | Easy to design, as bullet-proof as possible | Replace surveys that are currently mailed to respondents, with results that need to be hand-entered at our end. A lot of the stuff we ask is open-ended, which makes machine-scorable forms not> a viable option. |
| Geetha Ramanathan | AFS Information Systems | Yes. | Very important for AFS. | Getting ready to do it, the pilot will be in February. We use a version of the sample PHP script from the web publishing guide on CIT's site. | Easy to learn and use. One of the option I like to have is to make sure that people can not take the same survey more than once. | Hopefully, it will take less time to get it ready. The one we are getting ready didn't take much time at all, thanks to the sample script |
| Joyce Morris | Education Department | It would make followup with our students much easier..we are currently trying to gather data on where they teach...if they teach...if they use technology in their teaching. | We are a RESEARCH institution and many faculty could use a tool like this to more easily gather data from a wider range of subjects. I personally would use it to learn more about the integration of technology in classrooms from k-16. | I'd want a tool that works well on both Macs and Windows machines. That can easily me modified for a variety of surveys and that in addition to collecting data, can process the data...run means, modes, anovas...etc.. | I would more readily do research and apply for research grants | |
| Michel Snyder | Office Of Audit Services | Absolutely! | Vital! | Yes, with the resolver ballot and various surveys of the university. | 1. that the results be available real-time so each day we could see changes.2. that the results can be presented graphically by bar - pie charts etc.3. that the results could be dis-aggregated to see various breakdowns of groups (men, women, departments, etc.)4. that the results could be also private, released by the manager of the particular poll at an appropriate time.5. anonomous when necessary or not anonomous when important. 6. easy to use More later... | 1. polling, if used well and properly can increase interest in particular areas of improvement 2. can make people more aware of things, processes, events and increase participation and engagement 3. academically for self assessments, and assessment gifts from others |