[TOS] Questionnaire after an open source course

[Don Davis]

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

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...

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"...)

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




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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