[TOS] Questionnaire after an open source course

[Ivaylo Ganchev]

Hello and thank you for your answers,

It is precious for us to have your ideas. Here are some more details.


> Are these semi-structured interview questions? Likert-scale?
> Open-response?

It will certainly be some mix of all that. For now it is a mix of a
Likert-scale and open responses.

> Discourse analysis would give you a chance to use the Python NLTK (and
> r). And Likert-scale would be a good reason to use r...

I think it is far beyond our objectives to use a natural language analysis
:) We would like simply to have a feed-back from the students about how
they felt with that class, the things to improve, the pitfalls that we
didn't see.

If we see some positive trends emerge from students point of view we will
certainly discuss this with colleagues in our university and other
universities.

>From our point of view (Karine Mordal in CC was the main professor I was
just assisting her with the details) it was a very positive experience and
we will try to repeat it.

The presentations of the projects are next Tuesday and once we have the
final results I will try to make a feed-back for the list (be assured it
will be rectified by someone more English-savvy than me :))

> If you're using Likert-scale you'll want multiple items to assess one
> measure... (See Gliem & Gliem's (2003) "Calculating, interpreting, and
> reporting Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient for Likert-type
> scales"...)

I will take a look

> <point> I think it would be easier to make suggestions if we knew how
> you're going to structure this...</point>

No clear idea :) I have a beta version, which is as I mentioned it a mix
of a Likert-scale and open questions. Not sure whether I will have the
time to translate it, to show you what it looks like, but will try to.

Thanks.

Cheers,
Ivaylo

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> On 01/25/2012 12:21 PM, Ivaylo Ganchev wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> during the first term of this university year we pushed some of our
>> students to work on free/open source projects in order to validate a
>> course on "comprehension of programs". Actually the term is coming at
>> its
>> end and we would like to prepare a questionnaire in order to probe how
>> our
>> students felt with this course. For now there are couple of questions
>> that
>> are focused on :
>>
>> * benefice of working on existent/working project (and not on a pure
>> academic project)
>> * benefice on working on an open source project (collaboration,
>> communication, licensing etc...)
>> * skills required in order to have a decent experience on a similar
>> project (programming languages, programming tools etc...)
>> * motivation (was it stimulating to work on a FLOSS project).
>>
>> What other questions do you think would be interesting to ask students ?
>> I
>> can't figure about how to "measure" the right way this experience in
>> order
>> to produce a meaningful output.
>>
>> Best,
>> --
>> Ivaylo Ganchev
>>
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