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In this edition of the Technology and Physical Education I would
like to discuss, "Why do a Survey?" Send me
information, questions or problems if you are using surveys on
your Web page.
What kinds of things can you find out using a survey? You
can survey your students about their interests, diet, exercise habits,
to check knowledge, or for what ever you want. You can
survey parents to find out information or to get feedback on their
child in your class.
Survey information can be used by students to relate physical education
to other areas. They can develop a survey related to some
aspect of physical education and use this information in math for
tallying and graphing the responses. Students and look at
how changing wording can effect answers as a part of an English
or government class. If you have worked with other schools
on projects you can set up an information exchange.
You can use existing programs such as Ballot
box or Cool Surveys
to create a one question survey or you can develop a multiple question
survey in FrontPage.
Ballot box will allow you to have up to 15 survey going at a time
and will do quizzes. Cool Surveys can also have multiple surveys.
Using FrontPage gives you a little more control, but requires more
knowledge, see below.
Sincerely,
Dr. Michael W. Dumin
Technology Section Editor
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If you use FrontPage (FP) as your web editor and your web server
supports FrontPage Extensions you can develop your own surveys on
your web page. An example of such a survey on activity levels
is available at my
site, This was a simple survey that allows for a variety
of question types and information to be collected and analyzed using
a spreadsheet program. I will give a rough idea of the steps
required to do this. I got this from Charley
Cosmato at Radford University and if you follow the links to
Current projects you will see the data
base information. His directions are simple enough that
even I could follow them.
You start by creating an empty ".txt" file and Save
it in a convenient location, I used the title "activity_survey.txt"
and saved it as a document file.
Open FP and from your folder list you will see a folder named "_private".
This is a FP standard file that keeps items you do not want to be
available to the public. You will need access so use "Tools",
"Web Settings", "Advanced", and check the "Show
documents in hidden directories" to provide yourself with access.
Use "File", "Import", "Add File..."
to bring in your empty survey file to the "_private" folder.
Open a "New Page" and add a few blank line that you can
later use for text. "Insert" a "Form"
into the page. Type in text and add the response boxes.
You have a choice of the following response types: "One line
text box", "Scrolling text box", "Check box",
Radio Buttons", "Drop down menus", and "Push
Buttons".
Right click on the button you use and you will be able to set "Form
Field Properties...", for each button to set values for each
answer. You can use the help function or check out Charley's
handout for details. Now right click on a blank area in the
form and using the "Form properties", "Options",
"Options for Saving results" to give the location of your
survey in the "_private" file, "survey.txt"
document and select the format you want to save the data in.
Tab-delimited is a handy format for storage that is readily useable
in Excel.
You can analyze your data in Excel by opening the "survey.txt"
file and importing the data. This is a quick overview, but
the process is simple and will allow you to set a survey with multiple
types of answers and questions.
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CoolSurveys.com at www.coolsurveys.com
has a free survey development tool, an example is below.
Survey Question:
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Ballot-Box.net
Here is a site for ready made surveys and quizzes. You come
up with the questions and they will do the work. You can
have up to 15 polls, with 15 questions in your poll.
You can also do tests with one question and up to 10 answer choices.
using polls will help keep people coming back to your site to
see what is new.
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Thought for the day
The most important six words:
"I admit I made a mistake."
The most important five words:
"I am proud of you."
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