Survey 4: DataTools End of Program Survey

First Name:

Last Name:

1. How many years have you been teaching?

2. What is data? Write a brief description of what you think data is?

3. During the past school year, how often have you asked your students to work with data?
4. During the past school year, how often have your students used computers as a part of your classroom teaching?
5. Check the boxes to indicate the data analysis tools that students have used as part of your course.
Check all that apply.
Spreadsheet applications
GIS
Image analysis

6. How many students do you teach?

7. With how many students did you implement DataTools investigations?

8. How many class periods did it take you to implement your first DataTools investigation with students?

9. How many class periods did it take you to implement your second DataTools investigation with students??

10. During the past school year, how often have you engaged students with spreadsheet-based, GIS-based, or image analysis-based activities?
11. How confident do you feel in your ability to lead spreadsheet-based, GIS-based, or image analysis-based activities?

Highly confident
Very confident
Confident
Somewhat confident
I am not comfortable leading these types of data-based activities

12. Rate your experience with locating data to support your classroom instructional needs.
13. Rate your experience creating or adapting a data-based activity to support your classroom instructional needs.
14. During the past school year, how often have you discussed or explored with your students careers that use information technology?
15. During the past school year, how often have you emailed or phoned other DataTools participants to share ideas?
16. During the past school year, how often have you shared information about data or analysis tools in ways other than in the classroom (i.e. with colleagues, friends, community members, etc.)?
17. What is the greatest challenge you have had during THIS school year when incorporating Web-accessible scientific datasets or analysis tools into your teaching?

18. In the future, how likely are you to use with your students, investigations adapted from or created by other DataTools participants?

Highly confident
Very confident
Confident
Somewhat confident
I am not comfortable leading these types of data-based activities

19. What impact do you think incorporating data and analysis tools has had on the students in your classroom?

20. What impact do you think introducing careers that use information technology has had on the students in your classroom?

Rate the usefulness of the online events held during our program:

21. Digging Into Data (posting a data-based plan; downloading and trying out someone else's plan)
22. Inquiry and Data (reading and discussing the inquiry paper by Duschl and Grandy)
23. Implementing Investigations (sharing the results of implementing your first investigation)
24. Sharing Activity Plans (posting a brief plan for your second investigation)
25. Think back to the goals of the DataTools Program:

To prepare you to use a wealth of free Web-based scientific data and data analysis sofware with your middle school students.

To help you develop strategies that promote student learning through inquiry, analysis, and dialogue, processes that are key to working with data.

To prepare you to increase your students' awareness of the variety of careers in which information technology is essential.

How well has this program lived up to its goals?

26. Please share any additional information you would like to add.

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Thank you for completing the survey!

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