Surveys are used for academic purposes all the time. You probably jump to thinking about surveys being used for teacher evaluation forms and end of course evaluation surveys. However, teachers will build quizzes using online survey polling software tools. Using a quiz creator tool actually saves time because all the formatting and scoring are done for you, unlike traditional paper based test and quizzes.
The adoption of technology in classrooms has been growing. Teachers and professors know that they are competing for the attention of their students. Using technology to facilitate quizzes and tests gives teachers more time for planning by decreasing the time they spend creating quizzes, formatting them and grading. And because technology is becoming more and more present in the classrooms, your classroom may already have computers in it for students to take the quiz. Depending on your teaching style, creating take home quizzes that are basically polls online work too.
I remember when I was in school, professors would always complain that transferring grades from paper to their grading system took a long time. Not only was that a pain for professors, but as a student, I wanted to see my grades as soon as possible. With the added web polling or survey software benefit of being able to automatically send out emails updating students on their quiz scores. To me, that seems like one more reason to switch to online quizzes. If you're using web poll or survey software, instead of having to transfer grades form paper to computer, you need to just export quiz scores and import them to the grading system.
Not all your online poll software uses have to be for quizzes, however. I mentioned before teachers are competing for student's attention with technology becoming more prevalent in the classroom. Why not make a poll and use it during your next lecture? Opinion polls keep the classroom engaged and help to make your point.
The point? Don't pigeon hole education survey questionnaires to only being for sampling student evaluations and course evaluation surveys. They have many other applications to the entire education process.
The adoption of technology in classrooms has been growing. Teachers and professors know that they are competing for the attention of their students. Using technology to facilitate quizzes and tests gives teachers more time for planning by decreasing the time they spend creating quizzes, formatting them and grading. And because technology is becoming more and more present in the classrooms, your classroom may already have computers in it for students to take the quiz. Depending on your teaching style, creating take home quizzes that are basically polls online work too.
I remember when I was in school, professors would always complain that transferring grades from paper to their grading system took a long time. Not only was that a pain for professors, but as a student, I wanted to see my grades as soon as possible. With the added web polling or survey software benefit of being able to automatically send out emails updating students on their quiz scores. To me, that seems like one more reason to switch to online quizzes. If you're using web poll or survey software, instead of having to transfer grades form paper to computer, you need to just export quiz scores and import them to the grading system.
Not all your online poll software uses have to be for quizzes, however. I mentioned before teachers are competing for student's attention with technology becoming more prevalent in the classroom. Why not make a poll and use it during your next lecture? Opinion polls keep the classroom engaged and help to make your point.
The point? Don't pigeon hole education survey questionnaires to only being for sampling student evaluations and course evaluation surveys. They have many other applications to the entire education process.


Most students these days have seen an education survey or completed a course evaluation or teacher evaluation form after a class, but are universities paying attention to what the results of the survey data collection means?

I came across an education survey report this morning that looked at the relationship between college students and their universities. Last month, two professors from the University of South Alabama presented the findings from a survey conducted in the spring 2008. They surveyed 1,025 University of Southern Alabama undergraduate students. The survey research goal was to uncover the relationship between students' perceptions that they are customers of the university and their educational attitudes and behaviors. Their research found 52% of their sample perceived themselves as university customers. Those who saw themselves as customers felt more entitled to complain. However, the survey research found satisfaction was the true predictor of a student's educational involvement, not whether they believed they were a customer of the university. 