RAIT: A Balanced Approach to Evaluating Educational Technologies
Caroline Sinkinson, Mark Werner, and Diane Sieber.
Appendix 1: Survey Instrument Skeleton.
DEMOGRAPHICS
- COURSE DETAILS
- ACADEMIC STATUS
- MAJOR OR SCHOOL
TECHNOLOGY PROFICIENCY
- How would you characterize your familiarity with technology?
- Novice
- Intermediate
- Expert
- Select the technologies that you have used in an academic setting previously:
ATTITUDES & PREFERENCES
- What is your attitude towards using of social networking technologies for class or academic purposes?
- Useful / positive
- Not useful / not positive
- Are you an active participant in academic online environments? i.e. do you post to discussions etc.
- Do you have concerns or reservations about using these social networking technologies for class or academic purposes?
- unequal participation
- negative comments
- negative peer feedback
- required communication
- privacy concerns
- forced collaboration
- anonymity
- workload
- Other
PERCEIVED BENEFITS
- Which of the following do you perceive as a benefit to using social networking technologies for class or academic purposes. [Select all that apply]
- Easy access to documents
- Community building
- Conversation
- Relationships
- Feedback
- Group and project management
- Collaborative content creation
- Self-assessment and reflection
- Experience with digital tools
- Record of accomplishments
- Sense of ownership
- Other
- In online environments, you value primarily:
- student-student communication
- student-teacher communication
- Which of the following non-class or community affiliates would you welcome in an online space? Select all that apply.
- topic experts
- librarians
- other campus faculty
- past students
- other
SATISFACTION & USE
- Please rate your satisfaction with X in terms of ease of use:
- Please rate your satisfaction with X in terms of navigation:
- Have you encountered any technical difficulties with X?
- If yes, please describe
- Which features of X in terms of did you use predominantly? (select all that apply or open field)
- Were you satisfied with these features?
- What other features do you wish X had available?
- Please briefly describe an example of why and how you used X:
- Would you like to use X again?