Dear Charlie, Thank you for your comment. The survey/questionnaire is reviewed by my supervisor and the university and all scales/questions are adapted from literature to this context. I hope you can pass my questionnaire to your fellow students even though it seems cryptic to CS students. Thanks Andrew On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Charlie Balch <charlie@balch.org> wrote:
Andrew, Your topic and methodology are of special interest to me. Your concept is very interesting but your application is weak. Was your survey reviewed/approved?
In review of your survey: * You requested a "Code" but failed to supply one. * There is an * by most questions but no related footnote. * Check your scale descriptors by question and include N/A as an option. * There are extraneous text boxes with no instructions as to how to use them. * You ask many questions about information usage in KSs but fail to ask the important questions about how hard it is to get to the information, the extent of the information, and the difficulty of adding to the information. * You ask many questions about personal sharing and rewards (I'm not sure what type of reward you are talking about). You don't ask critical questions about how well efforts are received and the extent to which efforts were requested. * Your question coding is distracting - at first I thought there was some acronym I should know.
I liked your use of Google docs as a survey tool. It was interesting.
Finally, I abandoned your survey as it was too long and many of the questions were so vague as to be difficult to answer. Your system did not allow for partial responses.
Charlie
Charles V. Balch Professor of Computer Information Systems Arizona Western College