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Possibilities for Further Surveys

Again, this is only one of many possible ways to analyze this data. We thought it was relevant to look at types of schools to see the differences between them. However, other ways to analyze this data could include (but is not limited to):

• Who are the responders?—What is their role in their school?
• What are the differences between collating the data by type of school and by all types of schools?
• What do the short answer questions reveal? How do these answers confirm or deny theories about the field of Basic Writing?
• What might positions/ schools/ regional demographics of responders who said they would be willing to be contacted for follow up questions suggest? Are there any trends?

In addition to the Survey Monkey survey, another, longer survey was conducted by the CBW. You can find the older survey here. This survey included more questions and allowed for a lengthier response.

Again, our group looked at only the first 100 answers to the survey. This was due to the fee charged by Survey Monkey for any answers over the first 100. In the future, it would be valuable to find a donor to pay the fee so that we could add the rest of the answers to the data set we worked with for this compfaqs posting. That would yield more precise measurements. It might also be helpful to recreate the survey in a system like Qualtrics which does not charge for any answers if your institution holds a licence for the Qualtrics system.

Also, as a group, we feel that while each of these surveys does collect significant data on the field of Basic Writing, the questions asked on these surveys are too broad to do anything more than start a conversation about a given topic. More targeted surveys would yield more decisive data, which could support or oppose specific ideas in the field.

On many of the preceding discussion pages, we have given examples of further questions for research. We feel that developing new surveys that expanded the topics opened by each of the questions on the original surveys would gather decisive and targeted data.

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