What
costs are involved to participate?
Activity |
Description |
Summary |
Responsibility |
Developing
Snapshot Survey Questions |
We
have developed a set of questions for the survey.
However, Your Educational Organization will want to
add about half the questions (10) that address Your
Educational Organization-specific issues. |
Your
Educational Organization |
Your
Educational Organization will need to bear the cost of
Your Educational Organization-specific question
development. This amounts to having a leader bring a
few folks together, via a conference call, and
iterating over about a week, to get the questions
straight. |
Advertising
Snapshot Survey Event
|
Flyers
, mailings, radio spots, news paper ads, etc will need
to be used to spread the word about the survey event.
|
Your
Educational Organization
|
Your
Educational Organization will need to bear the cost of
advertising the event.
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Creating
Your Snapshot Survey website
|
The
website for your Snapshot Survey needs to have (1) an
engaging homepage, (2) easy-to-read and easy-to-use
survey questions.
|
SSS
team
|
The
Snapshot Survey team will bear the total cost of
creating the website.
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Administering
the Snapshot Survey (Web hosting)
|
Your
Educational Organization Snapshot Survey needs to be
hosted on servers capable of handing the load.
|
SSS
team
|
Your
Educational Organization Snapshot Survey will be
hosted on servers at the University of Michigan. Sun
Microsystems has agreed to provide the servers.
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Administering
the Snapshot Survey (Assisting survey takers)
|
During
the Snapshot Survey event, invariably questions arise
(e.g., "how do I configure my browser?î) and
glitches arise (e.g., server outage).
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Your
Educational Organization &
SSS team
|
Your
Educational Organization will need to identify a small
number (5 or less) of individuals who will be
available via email and phone to answer questions, and
who can serve as liaison to the Snapshot Survey team
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Analyzing
Data
|
At
the conclusion of the survey, statistical analyses of
the study will need to be applied to the survey data.
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Your
Educational Organization &
SSS team
|
The
Snapshot Survey team will provide basic analyses.
However, Your Educational Organization may well want
to carry out its own analyses.
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Note: The Snapshot
Survey Team is made up faculty from education and computer
science from the University of Michigan, the University of
Nebraska/Omaha and the University of North Texas. Funding
for this project is provided, in part, from a grant from the
U.S. Department of Education, monitored by the North Central
Regional Education Lab.
What
other states have participated in the survey?
The state of Nebraska
conducted a Snapshot Survey in February 2000. We have also
contracted with a major national publication, Education
Leadership, to conduct a Snapshot Survey for them in April
2000. EL has a readership of 150,000. We are in
discussions with several other states and major national
publications about creating Snapshot Surveys for them in
the Fall of 2000.
Is there
a possibility for a follow-up on an annual or bi-annual
basis to identify trends?
Absolutely! We feel that
the Snapshot Survey is precisely the right technology to
use to repeatedly tap into the voice of the practicing
educators and identify trends. Annual or bi-annual
surveying would be just fine. For the next round of
surveying, at least, the SSS Team will provide this
service for the costs outlined above.
Can the
data be broken down by region or statewide only?
The data can be broken
down to as fine a grain as Your Educational Organization
desires. In the Nebraska survey, the finest grain was the
ìeducational service unit,î which are major regions in
the state. However, we can ask survey-takers to select
from a list of more specific locations, e.g., schools,
towns, etc.
Who is
responsible for interpreting the date and reporting it out?
The SSS Team, as
identified above, will carry out statistical analyses of
the survey data. For example, go to: http://snapshotsurvey.org/
to read the major reports that have come out so far from
the Nebraska study. The SSS Team will report the data in
academic journals and trade magazines (e.g., Technology
and Learning Magazine, the Science Teacher Magazine).
However, Your Educational Organization can carry out
additional statistical analyses and it can put out reports
as it sees fit, e.g., press releases, reports posted on
the Your Educational Organization website, etc.
Is there
a Your Educational Organization exclusive rights to the
reporting data?
Both Your Educational
Organization and the SSS Team will have co-equal rights to
the data. Your Educational Organization can publish
findings independent of the SSS Team. (We ask only that an
acknowledgement to the SSS Team be placed in those
publications.) And likewise, the SSS Team can publish
findings independent of Your Educational Organization
(with an acknowledgement to the appropriate groups in Your
Educational Organization).
Do you
see a parent and/or student surveys coming out in the
future?
We stand ready to work
with you to create student and parent surveys! Yes, the
Snapshot Survey technology is readily adaptable to
surveying children and parents.
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