Student Survey edited 12-2 

The group is updating the Student Survey that is scheduled to be administered before the end of Fall 2020. We edited the prior survey and added more questions to be able to find out students’ experiences, challenges, and needs during remote learning in Fall 2020.

Notes for Meeting 4: November 11, 2020

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• Q4 What is your major?
• Q5 Prior to Spring 2020 (online, hybrid…)
• Q6 How many credits did you register for in Spring 2020?
• Q8 What could your professors or the school have done to further ease the transition to emergency remote instruction during Spring 2020?
• Q12 How frequently did your instructor conduct synchronous (all students must be present at the same time) sessions? [if you took four classes this semester, please respond for each class separately, using class 1,2,3,4]

Edited

• Q7 How difficult did you find the emergency remote instruction during Fall 2020?
• Q9 During Fall 2020, what made you feel connected to your professor in a similar way to an in-person course? (check all that apply)
• Q10 What type of online courses did you like the most? CHANGE IT TO FUTURE Q10 What type of online courses do you like the most?
• Q15 When school resumes offering face-to-face classes (after the pandemic), I would be most interested in enrolling in the following courses (1:first choice, 2: second choice, 3: third choice) —
  • Online (Students do not meet with the instructor and each other in-person on campus for the entire semester)
  • Hybrid (A majority of class meetings are in face-to-face format; the rest of the coursework is conducted online)
  • Face-to-face
• Q19 Please share anything you want us to know about your experience during Fall 2020.

Keep with no change

• Q1 Please report your race/ethnicity – move at the end
• Q2 What is your gender? – move at the end
• Q3 Please report your age – Change it the range 23-24 25-30 31-45
• Q11 Please rate your experience using the following tools in Spring 2020
• Q13 What is your preferred form of communication with your instructor and classmates? [select one]
• Q14 Do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
• Q16 Which technology did you use the most to engage in your Spring 2020 courses? [Please choose one]
• Q17 Please describe the laptop/computer you used
• Q18 What technology was not available to you that you think could have been beneficial to your learning?

— to be added —

Potential additions [sequence to be determined]

1. What has been difficult about remote learning (select all that apply)

• Staying focused on school/work despite distractions
• Finding privacy/quiet space
• Access to library services
• Access to printing services
• Feeling disconnected from classmates
• Balancing personal and social time (*)
• Having your basic needs met (i.e. food, housing, job, and/or financial security)
• Limited access to mental health services (i.e., therapy or medication)
• Limited access to connectivity (i.e., wifi)
• Other

TBD

2. What is most difficult about accessing textbooks during remote learning in Fall 2020 (select all that apply)

• Could not access the material on time
• Price of the textbook is too high
• Needed a hard (printed) copy
• No challenges

3. During Fall 2020, are you taking a course noted as Zero Textbook Cost / OER (e.g., you could access the textbook for free) — [To be rephrased]

Yes                  No

— If yes —

3a. Compared to most other courses you have taken; how would you rate access to the materials for this course

• Easier to access
• About the same to access
• More difficult to access
• I do not know

3b. Would you recommend a course using zero-cost materials like those offered in this course to other students?

3c. What were the benefits or challenges of the open/free materials used in this course?

More questions about online, online hybrid, etc.

Attached, you will find the questions we went over during Meeting 3. These are some results and questions used in other surveys ran nationwide to find out students’ expectations and experience with remote learning. For Meeting 4, we will draft of possible questions we can ask to our students, making use of our prior questionnaire and the third-party ones.

This is the link to the summary report regarding the student and faculty focus groups during summer 2020. https://sr.ithaka.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SR-Report-Student-and-Faculty-Experiences-with-Emergency-Remote-Learning-102220.pdf​

I hope to see you next week 11/11 at 3pm.

Summary survey

Other surveys examples 

The group decided to work on a similar project as in Spring and Summer 2020.

As we have approached Fall 2020 semester, it will be interesting to re-administer a similar survey to gauge increasing levels of comfort with online learning.  A key component to focus on as data are collected in Fall 2020 is the inequities that emerged from the Spring 2020 survey: Hispanic women and traditional age students had a more difficult time adapting to ERI than other demographic groups.  The demographic profile of respondents also highlighted some of these inequities.  While the profile of faculty respondents largely reflected the demographic patterns of Kingsborough’s body of faculty, male students were heavily under-represented among student respondents [sampling].  While this may reflect an overall lower level of interest in survey taking by male students (participation levels by male students in other surveys has been similarly low), it may also be indicative of possible inequities in access to technology or connectivity.  Efforts will be made to recruit survey respondents that more accurately represent the college’s overall demographic profile.

Next steps: Participants will look at prior surveys and select the questions that will be included the updated survey, add specific questions related to inequities, challenges, online instruction, etc.

Attached is a summary of Spring 2020 surveys.

• Data FIG possible directions Fall 2020
• Faculty survey summary 8.12.20
• Student Survey Summary 8.12.20