Survey Workshop Part Deux

As the last blog started my journey with surveys, this one will continue into the foray as well. We've all signed up to SurveyMonkey and my hunch that seeing the questions on the site would help proved right. SurveyMonkey has so many different options and it was extremely helpful to just go into the site and explore the possibilities.

We continued the workshop format for class and had a rotating setup so that we all worked on each other's survey. The comments were varied and random, to be honest, but at the same time made me realize how every individual is different, so I have to create a survey that can be applicable to all them. A surmountable task, but one that must be done to create a survey that will actually produce results.

Below are some of the questions that have made it into my survey:

• Which category describes your position?
• How many hours per week do you spend at your school's writing center?
• How informed are you and your writing center coworkers about the Southeastern Writing Center Association (SWCA)?
• How well utilized (read, discussed, used for training, etc.) is the SWCA's publication, Southern Discourse, at your writing center?
• The SWCA hosts annual conferences that are designed to bring the entire region together. What two cities located within the region are most convenient for you to attend?
• Which of the following local events would you most like to see the SWCA host in the future?
• What feature would you most like to see added to the SWCA website?  

Each will have options (duh!), but I'll leave that to be seen by those that take my survey. The next step is to have the survey approved, and sent out into the writing center world!