Each classroom will receive a survey packet. The online survey packet includes a set of instructions and script for the survey administer to read to students. Online administration will follow these steps:
1. Verify that all the students taking the survey have permission to participate. Those who do not have permission to participate, and those who choose not to participate should be sent to another classroom or given an alternative non-obtrusive activity, such as independent reading or studying for another class, to do while the remaining students complete the survey.
2. Every student taking the survey should be seated at their own computer with an internet browser (such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari) open on the website [Survey URL coming soon]. If you want, you may log every computer into the survey prior to beginning the survey using the classroom code provided at the bottom of this sheet. Once this code has been activated it will be live for 2 hours, after which time no one can login again using that code. Alternatively, you can wait until the students are seated and have them enter the classroom code as part of the log in process.
3. Read the Script aloud to the students. It is important that all students in one class use the same code and take the survey simultaneously. Each class should have a different classroom code.
4. After reading the script, please stay in a location where it is obvious you cannot monitor or see any student’s answers. If a student asks, you may help pronounce any unfamiliar words or provide a definition of a word to that student. However, do not try to “interpret” or “explain” the meaning of a question for the student. Simply tell the student to answer the question as best as he or she can.
5. Remind students to click the “Finish” button after answering the last question to save their answers.
6. Five minutes before the end of the class period, inform the students of how much time they have remaining.
7. At the end of the class period, make sure all students have closed their internet browser.