Our groups, and links to our surveys

This is the blog entry on which you will all post your surveys, so we can take other groups' surveys as peer-editors, to tell them whether everything worked.

Below, I will list all the groups, and the group members' names. Under the heading "topic," you will post your survey link when it is done.

EVERYBODY needs to TAKE THREE SURVEYS; you can choose which ones! You are responsible for telling the group whose survey you took whether you found any mistakes of logic / layout / options to click on / spelling, etc.

TASK: You will each take three surveys, and write a short memo to each group whose survey it was how you found the survey, what was good about it, what was ambiguous about it, what to change, etc.

EMAIL YOUR MEMO to the members of the group who did the survey, and to me in a copy.



GROUP 1:

Survey Topic: "Understanding Autism Through Supervision"


Group Members: Vanessa Knepp, Alison Romershausen, Daniel Colcord, Regina Evans

Audience: Supervisors of autistic children

Purpose: To learn different approaches & techniques of educating, communicating with, and enhancing overall the life of an autistic child.

Anticipated Outcome: The approaches and techniques used will differ for each child.

Statement of Need: This will display personal accents and a variety of approaches which will help show the large spectrum that affects autistic children.



GROUP 2:

Survey Topic: "What Second Language Teachers Think About AAE as a Second Language"

Group Members: Amy McKenzie, Bonnie Bilyeu, Bryan Norbut

Audience: SIUC's Foreign Language Department staff

Purpose: to explore the opinions of F2 instructors of AAE as a second language, to ascertain whether AAE is worthy of foreign language status

Anticipated Outcome: We doubt they will recognize it as a second language

Statement of Need: We feel it is important to seek the opinions of experts in the field of foreign language to ascertain whether AAE is worthy of foreign language status


GROUP 3:

Survey Topic: "Teaching English as a Second Language"


Second part of survey

Group Members: Zach Casselman, John Lynch, Jen Johnson, Von Smalley, Issak Diaz

Audience: teachers of diverse students

Purpose: See how teachers approach and apply methods to teach foreign students.

Anticipated Outcome: We predict teachers will not indicate any existing bias, and that they will work on a 1 on 1 basis with students.

Statement of Need: Look into relationship of teachers and foreign students, and look into better teaching strategies to employ.



GROUP 4:

Survey Topic: "Should Ebonics Be Used In Schools?"

Group Members: Ti'erra Taylor, Josette Maxime, Amanda Yates

Audience: 3 teachers, 2 parents, 5 students

Purpose: To see if people believe that teaching Ebonics in schools is good or bad, and how they feel it affects the students.

Anticipated Outcome: We anticipate that people will think it is good to teach Ebonics in schools.

Statement of Need: This survey is important because it'll give different perspectives on people's opinion of using Ebonics in school.



GROUP 5:

Survey Topic: "Language Acquisition Among Twins"

Group Members: Amanda Murphy, Ashley Wetzler

Audience: Our audience will be comprised of twins or people who deal with twins.

Purpose: Our purpose is to see whether language acquisition differs between twins and those who aren't twins.

Outcome: We think that there will be a difference in the learning acquisition of twins.

Statement of Need: This information is important because it may change the way that language needs to be taught to twins.


GROUP 6:

Survey Topic: "It's 'cause we is Twins?"

Group Members: Alex Gholson, Christian Holt, Lindsay Buettner, Stephanie Tillery, Jessica Berry

Audience: twins, family, friends, teachers

Purpose: To discover whether or not twins are at a linguistic disadvantage.

Anticipated Outcome: Any disadvantage is not created from being twins, but from external influences.

Statement of Need: To dispell any misconceptions brought on by past research about language development in twins.


GROUP 7:

Survey Topic: Click Here to take survey">"Learning a Second Language"

Group Members: Jim Radice, Mike Schloz

Audience: Undergraduate Foreign Language students.

Purpose: Why students choose to take a foreign language.

Anticipated Outcome: Students want to learn foreign languages to broaden their horizons. Not enough Americans learn foreign languages.

Statement of Need: This survey is important because it will provide data on the reasons people take foreign languages, and offer instructors more info on the motivations of their students.