One of the most difficult things I've had to do for my EM was create a survey. The intended purpose of this survey was to be released to teachers in Japan to fill out, in either English or Japanese, to gather a broad understanding of their beliefs and current team teaching habits. There were two parts to my survey: a Likert-scale section and an open ended section. In most cases for all the questions, they were presented in both English and in Japanese for a broader audience.
Over two semesters, I created and refined the following survey, based off of two previously published works. Once the survey was finalized, I submitted the IRB, which allowed me to submit my survey to various members around Japan, in the hopes of having as many people take it as possible. Once the IRB was approved, I created the survey on Qualtrics via MSU, and then submitted it to various sources. I submitted the links to several Facebook Groups, via e-Mail, as well as to my colleagues, in the hope that it would have a snowball affect; that is, that people who took it would encourage their own colleagues to take it, and would continue to recommend it to others.
The survey was opened for several weeks. Once the data was collected, I proceeded to work with the data to create means of the Likert-scale information, as well as to do several rounds of analysis with the open ended answers. Some of these open ended answers were done in all Japanese, so before I did any analysis, I translated those into English, while retaining the original Japanese answers.
There were two parts to my survey: a 7-point Likert Scale, and Open-ended questions. Questions for respondents were in both English and Japanese.
I felt tension between myself and my partner. 私は自分とパートナーの間に緊張を感じました.
I was concerned my partner was a better teacher. 私は私のパートナーがより良い教師であると心配していました。
There was enough time to discuss class experiences. クラスの経験について話し合うのに十分な時間がありました。
Q14 How do you believe team teaching is effective in English class? How do you think its ineffective? TTは英語の授業でどのように効果的だと思いますか？どのように効果がないと思いますか？
What parts of team teaching do you find beneficial or rewarding? What do you think is the most challenging? TTのどの部分が有益またはやりがいがあると思いますか？何が一番難しいと思いますか？
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