1301 Survey

If you have completed my 1301 class, please take a few moments to fill out the survey below to help me understand how well my class prepared you for 1302 and later classes. This information will be completely confidential and will help foster improvements for future students.

Thank you for your time.

If you are taking or have completed English 1302:

1. Which of the sources that you learned about in 1301 do you feel will be most helpful to you in college or later in life?

2. Which activity was the most helpful to you in producing a research paper?

3. Which activity seemed least helpful or productive to you in producing a research paper?

4. How would you rate the improvement in your research skills after 1301?

no improvement little medium good tremendous improvement

General Questions

1. Why did you take ENGL 1301? Program requirement? Degree requirement? Other reason?

2. What assignment did you consider the most helpful (or most interesting or most thought-provoking) during this course? Why?

3. What assignment was the least helpful (or interesting or thought-provoking) during this course? Why?

4. What would you do differently if you were taking this course over again and wanted to improve your success in it?

5. Which assignment or activity in this course encouraged or enhanced your particular talents?

6. What would you suggest to improve the instruction and pacing of the course?

7. Which determined most your choosing this particular class? The hour it was offered? Its length in weeks? The instructor?

8. What information should you have been given about this course when you registered that would have helped you be more successful?

9. How would you rate your actual success in the course as compared to your expectations of success?
much lower than expected lower expected higher than expected much higher

Writing Questions

1. What particular writing activity was the most helpful to you personally? Why?

2. What writing activity could have been omitted? Why?

3. How would you rate your writing ability now as compared to the beginning of the class?

no improvement little medium good tremendous improvement

Reading Questions

1. What critical reading technique learned in this class has helped you most?

2. How would you rate your reading ability now as compared to your reading ability before you completed this course?

no improvement little medium good tremendous improvement