[CBW_Exec] A second item for your consideration (BWe and CBWmembership)

Wed Sep 2 12:15:53 CDT 2009

By now, Rebecca, you may be wondering why you ever got involved with
this project.  In case that's true, I am writing to let you know there
is at least one person, and I'm sure many more, who are eagerly awaiting
the results.  Keep up the good work.

Peter

From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu
[mailto:cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu] On Behalf Of Rebecca
Mlynarczyk
Sent: Wednesday September 02, 2009 10:47 AM
To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board
Cc: Deborah Mutnick
Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] A second item for your consideration (BWe and
CBWmembership)

Hi Kelly,

Deborah Mutnick and I met today to edit the BW survey, which we plan to
disseminate in mid-September. We have made minor adjustments in the
survey based on people's feedback, and we'll mention how we dealt with
the issue you raised in your e-mail below.

Thanks so much for your involvement with this project and for helping us
to fine tune the survey. Deborah and I will probably pay for a month
membership when we go public with it because we're hoping to get more
than 100 responses. We're also thinking about how to involve a graduate
assistant or recent Ph.D. in doing some analysis or further research
based on what we find.

Hope you had a wonderful summer. Congratulations on the recent
publication of your book. I think I saw it included in an NCTE catalog.

All the best,

Rebecca & Deborah

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Kelly Ritter KARITTER
<KARITTER at uncg.edu> wrote:

Hi Rebecca:

One thought about the survey--and I'm so sorry I didn't catch this
before.  For question #8 ("if your institution doesn't have BW. .  . )
there are a couple of potential problems. First, the survey assumes that
one's institution *does* have BW, or else the previous questions are not
answerable (I tried to take the survey, for example, and then realized I
could not, b/c we do not offer BW), and so Q8 only applies if none of
the above questions do (see what I mean?).  Second, survey monkey won't
allow people to "skip" questions--so you would also need a "not
applicable" option for this question, if you were to keep it in the
survey.  

One way to do this is to make "not applicable" a response to the other
questions above as well--about one's BW program title, focus, etc.--so
that people like me could answer Q8 and the other demographic questions
without having to answer the other BW program questions.  This would
give you a wider net of responses, though you would probably want to
cross-code them to see which came from people at institutions with BW
programs, and which came from people at institutions without BW
programs.  If you pay for a membership on survey monkey, this
higher-level cross-coding is possible in the results reporting.  Or, you
can look at the results manually and code yourselves.

We're trying to keep the survey as simple as possible, and so this is
how we've dealt with this issue: We changed the first question about the
respondent's institution so that it doesn't refer to basic writing (we
had to make this question and identifying the institution a required
question--the only one that's required) because otherwise we would have
no way of knowing if several people from the same institution filled out
the survey, which would really mess up the data.

Then we moved the question about "if your institution doesn't offer BW"
up from no. 8 to no. 3, so that people who really don't have BW at their
institution won't answer the questions that follow. Most of these
questions really are not applicable if they don't have BW at their
institution. But they could still volunteer for a followup interview
(last page) if there's an important story about why they don't have it
or why they no longer have it. 

	Again, sorry to not mention this earlier--I'm only sending to
the whole Exec board in case my idea duplicates what someone else might
have also noticed.

	Kelly

	Dr. Kelly Ritter
	Associate Professor of English
	Director of Composition
	University of North Carolina at Greensboro
	Greensboro NC 27402
	karitter at uncg.edu

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	To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board
<cbw_exec at tamu-commerce.edu>
	From: Rebecca Mlynarczyk <rebecca.mlynarczyk at gmail.com>
	Sent by: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu
	Date: 06/04/2009 05:41PM 

	Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] A second item for your consideration
(BWe and CBW membership)

	Hello everyone, 

	Using the comments we received at the CBW workshop in March and
with excellent assistance from Kelly Ritter, we have streamlined the
National Survey of Basic Writing to make it more user friendly and
quicker and easier to complete.  Again in response to feedback at the
workshop, we've decided to put it up on Survey Monkey; you should be
able to preview it by clicking on the link below. Please feel free to
let us know if you have questions, comments, or suggestions. Bear in
mind that we're limited to 10 questions, but we do hope to be able to
get more detailed information from respondents who fill out the form at
the end. 

	This is our first experience with Survey Monkey, so also let us
know if you encounter any technical problems. Once we're sure the Survey
is in its final form, we will decide on the most effective way to
disseminate it. 

	Rebecca and Deborah 

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=xHqm3g7tYx7ildvliwJMMg_3d_3d 

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