Please follow these instructions for administering the student surveys for extended events facilitated by project staff in either formal or informal settings (i.e., educational events two hours or longer for students). We recommend that you read over the instructions prior to starting the administration.
General Guidelines:
- When administering the survey, please remind students what AREN-based activities they experienced.
- If available, NASA/AREN stickers may be used as an incentive for students to complete the survey.
Electronic Version Instructions:
Materials needed: computers or tablets for each participant, internet access, access to electricity.
- Leave time at the end of the event and direct students to the survey at https://tinyurl.com/ARENstulong
- After the event, please complete the Facilitator Event Information form: https://tinyurl.com/ARENevent. This form is to be completed once by the event facilitator, not by event attendees.
Paper Version Instructions:
- Before the event, print as many copies as needed. The paper version of the survey can be downloaded by clicking here.
- Leave time at the end of the event and hand out surveys to each student who participated in the event.
- Have a box of dark pens or pencils available for students to complete the survey.
- To ensure anonymity, please have a box available for people to place their completed surveys in rather than collecting surveys individually.
- After the event, scan the completed surveys to a PDF (please make sure that all pages are oriented the same way). Please email the scanned responses to ARENeval@horizon-research.com. If scanning to PDF is not feasible, you may return via mail (please email us to let us know). If multiple events are being done in a short time frame, please keep surveys for each event separate and denote which event each set of surveys is related to.
- After the event, please complete the Facilitator Event Information form: https://tinyurl.com/ARENevent. This form is to be completed once by the event facilitator, not by event attendees.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding these instructions or the extended event student survey, please contact Brean Prefontaine by email (ARENeval@horizon-research.com) or phone, toll-free (877-297-6829).
