Using student surveys...
Increases understanding
Provides data
Informs conversations
Overview
Have students complete an interest survey at the beginning of the semester or the year.
Use the results to determine trends and interests
Reintroduce the survey at different points in the year to see how students' interests change and adapt instruction to meet these changes.
Core Components
Information collected is used as data to drive changes
Survey's are not transactional
Results are communicated and valued
Proactive Implementation
Giving a student interest survey at the beginning of the year and they administrating it multiple checkpoints again in the year is the proactive approach. Interests may change.
Responsive Implementation
Responsively implementing student survey may stem from a need in building community and elevating interpersonal connections. The survey results must be used.
Connection
If the need is connection then students may share their interests in groups or a class meeting to highlight diversity and build awareness.
Skills Training
If the need is skill building then academically based skills questions may be placed on the survey to find what students specifically like about certain subjects.
Awareness
If the need is awareness then students may use a gallery walk to look at classmates interests and ask questions.
Emotional Regulation
If the need is regulation then students may include how they like to cope or regulate on their survey. The supervising adult may also use this information to create regulation tools for students based on their interests.
Consider Factors Prior to Start
Student factors-
Gender, race, function, topography, family dynamics, interpersonal relationships
Contextual factors -
Resource availability, classroom instruction, physical space, time, technology
Intensifying or Fading During
Duration
Frequency
Feedback
Reinforcement
Goals
REMINDER
Make a note to document when you're starting this intervention.
After 10 consecutive school days of implementation, use collected data to determine the intervention's effectiveness.
Survey given periodically throughout the year to see how interests or responses change
Interest survey
Collaborative survey
Survey gauging how students prefer to learn new material