[Events] Crafting an exit survey for campus events
Kevin Carillo
Kevin.Carillo at vuw.ac.nz
Thu Apr 12 20:25:32 UTC 2012
* In the time since the workshop, have you participated in an open source
project? Answer with one of the following:
( ) No increase in participation
( ) Increased participation as an observer (reading mailing list, or
reading bug reports)
( ) Increased participation as a visible contributor (writing to the
mailing list, or submitting bug reports)
There are several issues with this question. First, the question is about participation and the answers are about increase in participation. If you want to capture participation increase then perhaps ask:
In the time since the workshop, has your participation in one or several open source project(s) increased?
( ) Decrease in participation
( ) No increase in participation
( ) Increase in participation
You may be more specific if you want to assess increase level (to what exent have your participation .... increased?). I would be tempted to go for this option instead.
Second, I would personally suggest to be more detailed as it would be interesting to know the kind of behaviours you are generating (readling mailing lists, reading bur reports, wriiting mesages in mailing lists, writing bub reports, writing code...)
This aspect measures your overall effectiveness in generating new open source contributors.
I would thus use separate questions instead of having all in one.
In the time since the workshop, has your participation in one or several open source project(s) increased?
... as an observer (reading mailing list, or reading bug reports)
( ) Decrease in participation
( ) No increase in participation
( ) Increase in participation
... as a visible contributor (writing to the mailing list, or submitting bug reports)
( ) Decrease in participation
( ) No increase in participation
( ) Increase in participation
* If a friend or colleague heard about an OpenHatch-led Open Source Comes
to Campus workshop, how likely is it that you would recommend them to
attend?
Extremely likely to recommend against
Moderately likely to recommend against
Slightly likely to recommend against
Neither likely to recommend nor recommend against
Slightly likely to recommend
Moderately likely to recommend
Extremely likely to recommend
7-points is perhaps too much here and the wording of answers like ""Extremely likely to recommend against" could lead to confusion for some respondents (and this is a question that is important of OH, you don't want to have errors because of unclear choices).
Your choices actually capture two ideas: recommending and recommending against (which are two different things). You may consider focusing on the one that you are the most interested in or even have two separate questions if you prefer.
Personally, I would go for:
If a friend or colleague heard about an OpenHatch-led Open Source Comes
to Campus workshop, how likely is it that you would recommend them to
attend?
"very likely," "likely," "neither likely nor unlikely," "unlikely," and "very unlikely."
That should be enough.
All this will help. Good luck .
~Kevin
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1. Crafting an exit survey for campus events (Asheesh Laroia)
2. Re: Crafting an exit survey for campus events (Karen Rustad)
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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:05:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org>
To: OpenHatch events <events at lists.openhatch.org>
Subject: [Events] Crafting an exit survey for campus events
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Hi OH-Events,
I'm working on an exit survey for people who attend(ed)
campus.openhatch.org events. The idea is to find out how well we're doing
at our goals of enabling students to participate better in open source,
and to use that to guide us in the future.
We've run a few events so far, and I think that we'll send this at least
to attendees of the UMD event in February. Morever, as we ramp up to run
one at RPI, we can ask students to fill out the exit survey right as the
event is coming to a close.
The idea is to get a sense of what parts of the workshop are good, what
needs improvement, and if generally people like it. I've written the
multiple-choice part with regard to the UMD event; I'd adjust those for
future events. You can read details of the UMD event here:
https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/UMD/Staff
Here's what I intend to ask. I'm happy to take feedback and suggestions; I
aim to send it out at the end of Thu, April 12.
<survey>
What made attending this workshop sound appealing to you? (textarea)
What was your favorite part of the workshop? (multiple choice)
* Laptop setup
* History, ethics, and economics of free software, led by Asheesh
* How to find the community -- about IRC and projects, led by Jessica
* Command-line module, led by Maco Morgan
* Verifying, building, and modifying open source module, led by John
Stumpo
* Project organization and git tutorial session, led by Jessica and
Asheesh
* Sunday hands-on project session
Why did you select the choice you did? (textarea)
---
* In the time since the workshop, have you participated in an open source
project? Answer with one of the following:
( ) No increase in participation
( ) Increased participation as an observer (reading mailing list, or
reading bug reports)
( ) Increased participation as a visible contributor (writing to the
mailing list, or submitting bug reports)
* Do you plan on continuing to learn more and participate in open source
projects since attending?
( ) Yes
( ) No
Do you have some open source contribution plans that you want to share
with us, perhaps because you're proud of them, or because you want
feedback/help with something?
(textarea)
* If a friend or colleague heard about an OpenHatch-led Open Source Comes
to Campus workshop, how likely is it that you would recommend them to
attend?
Extremely likely to recommend against
Moderately likely to recommend against
Slightly likely to recommend against
Neither likely to recommend nor recommend against
Slightly likely to recommend
Moderately likely to recommend
Extremely likely to recommend
Why did you choose the answer you did? (textarea)
Do you have any other feedback for us? (textarea)
</survey>
-- Asheesh.
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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:36:55 -0700
From: Karen Rustad <karen.rustad at gmail.com>
To: events at lists.openhatch.org
Subject: Re: [Events] Crafting an exit survey for campus events
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> * In the time since the workshop, have you participated in an open source
> project? Answer with one of the following:
>
> ?( ) No increase in participation
> ?( ) Increased participation as an observer (reading mailing list, or
> reading bug reports)
> ?( ) Increased participation as a visible contributor (writing to the
> mailing list, or submitting bug reports)
I'd put an e.g. in front of those parentheticals, since they are
hardly exhaustive. Other than that, this looks good to me.
-- Karen
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