Surveying Solutions: Addressing Student Communication Challenges

By Kyra DeLoach

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As I take a break from solving all the problems of my life, I have been focusing on problems of my practice and working on my Wicked Problem. After brainstorming and collaborating I landed on this: How can I get students more comfortable with face-to-face interactions in a digital world?

Most of the issues I assist students with have to do with a lack of communication and discomfort with confrontation. Speaking to some of my classmates, it is clear this is a problem that is being seen throughout all grade levels, not just higher education.

In the journey of trying to find an answer to my questions, I worked on a survey this week to start getting more perspectives on this issue. There is so much more that goes into designing a successful survey than just picking questions and sending them out. For me personally, trying to not pick only open-ended questions was a challenge.

After messing around with Google Forms, I realized that I wanted to break up the questions more: this is when I learned about sections. I found a helpful YouTube video, How break up a Google Form into multiple pages | Tips & Tricks Episode 110 that helped me break up my questions on separate pages, as well as adding a progress bar, so I wouldn’t overwhelm my survey-takers.

I’m excited to see what information and insight I gain in the next week with my survey and look forward to getting closer to some sort of solution for my Wicked Problem.

References

Blumenthal, H. (2017, March 14). Wicked problems have no stopping rule – Digital Insider. Digital Insider. https://diginsider.com/tag/wicked-problems-have-no-stopping-rule/

Appsevents. (2022, March 3). How break up a Google Form into multiple pages | Tips & Tricks Episode 110 [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz5sjzWvF5U