I was just feeling really good about getting my survey designed and ready to post when I realized a potential problem. First about the process, I created it with Surveymonkey. The whole survey took a couple of hours to make because I started looking at the various question types. In the end I just decided it would be easier to just stick to the same format for questions. Then I realized as I was ready to add another question that the free version restricts you to 10 questions. They couldnt' have told me that before I wrote the whole survey?

Then, as I was about to celebrate getting this completed I realized that this way of collecting surveys will not allow me to look at my subgroups. Prior to making the survey I had labored over two choices for looking at my special learners- either put a question in the survey about it or have the kids put in their names and I would know who was in what subgroup. I had decided to go with names because this way there would be no issue over confidentiality or other questions. Unfortunately, now that my survey is created it appears there is not a place for entering your name.

My question to the group is this, do I go back and add a question that asks students to check which groups they are a part of OR do I find a service that will allow me to put in names for the survey so that I can disaggregate these students after the survey has been taken?

The question of will I get better responses by allowing students to remain nameless. Will they feel more able to give an honest answer? I wonder about this. I would welcome other people's thoughts about it. I also plan to do some searching about writing and administering surveys to see if the experts out there may have some advice.

Another question that has arisen as I have begun to create the survey is filtering. The free version of Surveymonkey does not allow you to filter the results. For example, I may want to filter out the special services students if I go with that type of identification in my survey. Adding another layer to this may be putting a question that asks about gender into the survey. That could be another filter for the results.

Amazing how new questions come up as you are going through the process. I am going to post a link to the survey so you all can check it out. Just don't actually take it because I don't want your data!

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