Designing the survey & Formative Assessment Reflection
I wanted the questionnaire to be successful, in terms of the richness of the responses gathered, and to be visually inviting. I did not know how to do this at first, however following a discussion with a member of the Digital Learning team at LCF, I decided to utilise the Mentimeter platform. I discovered that it has recently been offered to UAL staff and students as a free UAL subscription.
I met with the digital learning member of staff to go through the different designs and template options that Mentimeter offers. I learned that this platform allows the responses to be analysed very effectively, it is also highly accessible, offering a variety of questions that can generate options such as polls and graphs, as well as free text responses to questions.
I have added examples showing the different types of slides that I have used to create what I hope will be an engaging and useful questionnaire for analysing the student’s responses:
Formative Assessment Reflection:
Feedback summary – The feedback from my formative presentation was very helpful, in terms of streamlining the presentation and outlining the key research approaches and terminology.
While the 10-minute time frame was also helpful, in gauging a stronger sense of what can be achieved in this time.
Key takeaway points were as follows:
Text heavy slides, use bullet points. Or highlight key words. Less text.
Include the number of responses and the % rate that this is.
Include rationale of why I did the research images, as a research methodology (image based research).
Do thematic analysis – so focussing on thematic responses, ‘sense of belonging’ & ‘wellbeing’ – so it aligns with what I am hoping the project will achieve.
Analyse the responses, you can use them as direct quotes.
Outline challenges, such as leaving the room and not coming back.
Outline the success of the questionnaire, as mentioned in feedback.
Add to blog, reflections on Consent forms, as in the future, it might have been better to embed the consent form in the questionnaire. Also, the admin time it takes to chase students to complete the consent forms.
To save time in presentation – Use research images as a background image, with bullet pointed key text in front.
On blog, separate quantitative and qualitative data. – Reflect on this, in terms of the implications of the responses.