{"id":50,"date":"2009-11-16T10:06:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T01:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2011-05-14T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T07:25:13","slug":"student-feedback-spring-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/16\/student-feedback-spring-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Feedback: Spring 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Google<\/a> As a teacher, I take student feedback very seriously, but it has always been difficult to compile student comments from the old-school handouts which seem to be the standard. \u00c2\u00a0This year I decided to do something a little different, so I set up a\u00c2\u00a0Google Form<\/a> and asked the students to complete it online. \u00c2\u00a0This was not too much of a problem logistically, as many of my classes are taught in the computer\/language lab anyway. \u00c2\u00a0I simply embedded the Google Form in the university e-learning course for each class and pointed them at it. \u00c2\u00a0The results were near instantaneous, and Google did a rather nice job of compiling the data in visual form for me. (bottom left)<\/p>\n

\"Wordle<\/a>Whereas the visualization of the multiple-choice questions is done quite well in the Google Form summary page, I found the display of the data from the open-ended questions to be far less satisfactory.Certainly, I could go directly into the spreadsheet to view the data, but I wanted a better way to visualize it, so that I could post it somewhere in my office as a constant reminder. \u00c2\u00a0It was this desire that reminded me ofWordle.net<\/a>, which is a great resource for visualization of textual data. I have used this before for visual representations of articles I have written, and as slides introducing presentations,and I have found the results quite pleasing. So,\u00c2\u00a0here is a Wordle map (below right) of the most common words used by my students in response to the following question:\u00c2\u00a0“What did you like about this class?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it be nice if Google added this format automagically?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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