Survey Discovery

I just discovered Survey Monkey and I am so excited to have a tool that is easier to send out and compile data than the old paper survey that you send home in Friday Folders and cross your fingers that it makes its way back to you.  I am taking Action Research, a course that requires data collection. Now mind you, I am NOT a "data person". I don't like coding or numbers or really trying to find the time to squeeze in another project for grad school. I hit a snag in my project, and not just a little one...my project site backed out at the last minute. I had all of the surveys printed and ready to go for a district that did not have all students online at home. As I scrambled to find a new location, I reached out to my mentor...the teacher who taught me everything I know when I was her student teacher. She suggested (since all of her students have internet at home) that I try survey monkey, as I would have a better response. I pasted all of my questions onto this survey site, which took some doing since you can only have 10 questions on the free version and I had to get creative.

I am so excited that this tool will take so much work off my plate for this project! Not only will it be sent out as a link and posted on the classroom blog...parents will respond and I will get immediate feedback, no students losing the paper in the black hole that is their backpack... AND, the best part is the site will analyze and compile your data for you. Can they please invent something like this for grading papers and scoring writing prompts??