Enter Survey Questions: Intro

Entering Questions for the Stats Survey

You will use this interactive website to submit questions for the online survey for use by all students in Math 102 / Core 143. All of your questions must have multiple choice answers, with only one answer allowed.

After you have entered the text of your question, you will be asked:

how many possible answers you want to have;
the text for each possible answer;
how you want each answer to be recorded in the file of responses;
for a word to use as a column header for the answers to your question in the response file.

For example, if your question is: What was your GPA for your junior year in high school?

you might want to allow 5 possible answers:

0.00-0.99, 1.00-1.99, 2.00-2.99, 3.00-3.99, 4.00+

You might want to have the answer 1.00-1.99 recorded in the response file as 1.5, say, and to have the answer 4.00+ recorded as 4.0 (because GPA's don't go far above 4). And you might want the responses recorded under the heading "hs11GPA".

It is important to avoid all symbols -- spaces, commas, question marks, slashes (forward or backward), underscores, hyphens, pound signs, etc. -- in your column heading or in the coded responses, because they can be misinterpreted by your web browser, or by the programs that process your questions and answers, or by Excel. Use only lower-case and capital letters, digits and periods (because you may need decimal points). You can probably safely use symbols (with the exception of the greater-than or less-than symbols > and <) on the question and the answers that will appear on the survey web page, but what is eventually to go to Excel must have no symbols, especially no spaces and commas.

Or, if your question is: Which of the following foods do you like best?

your column title might be FavFoods, and one of your possible answers may be hot dogs (on the web page), recorded as hotdogs in the data file -- again, no spaces may be used in what will eventually go to Excel.

You don't need to ask for:

gender

age

class year

height

weight

first or second concentration

minor

cumulative GPA (at Colgate)

first semester GPA

These will be the first few questions on the form. The computer will check to make sure that your column header is different from the others presently in use and ask you to create a new one if necessary to avoid repetitions.

If your question asks for information that a student might prefer not to provide, your possible answers should include an "opt-out" choice ("Prefer not to answer", say).

The course instructors reserve the right to modify or delete any question.

After you understand these instructions, click HERE to enter your questions.