Moses, Smith, Caputi and Rawstorne (2000) have published a scale that I think you can use or adapt easily to your purposes. The scale looks at how students learn with computers, how they evaluate that experience, their attitudes toward email use in the classroom and their perception of the usefulness of that medium, etc. Also, if I remember correctly, Michele Jackson is doing something similar to your project with Computer Science students right now. I'm reluctant to give out her email address over the list here, but you can find her website when you look for her under faculty members in the Communication department at the University of Colorado, at Boulder. Finally, I suspect you have your course all planned out already, but if you are interested, please feel free to check out my syllabus for "Effective Internet Communication," a very applied short-course, at http://www.people.ku.edu/~ulla/teaching.html Good luck, I'd love to hear what you find out, ulla Smith, B., Caputi, P., Rawstorne, P. (2000). Differentiating computer experience and attitudes toward computers: An empirical investigation. Computers in Human Behavior, 16,_ 59-81. ************************* Ulla K. Bunz University of Kansas 102 Bailey Lawrence, KS 66045 785-864-1160 ulla@ukans.edu ************************* -----Original Message----- From: mboudour@upatras.gr [] Subject: [Air-l] Question about computer/Internet surveys/experiments in a class What I was thinking to do in parallel with this course is some survey or experiment which would investigate the students' perceptions about computers and the Internet in terms of whatever they're doing (course work, soliciting or providing technical assistance, social involvement, relations, cultural preferences, political engagement etc.). [snip] --Moses