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Kendra (and others),

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for but in working on my
doctoral research I have come across an interesting web based survey
tool.  It is very inexpensive to use and when someone gets the url, they
can go to the site answer the questions (in any format you design) and
you get the data in summary form or you can download the results in
excel and evenutally SPSS or another statistical software package for
more detailed analysis.  You can take a look at this tool at
surveymoney.com. I know the name is strange, but the price is right, it
is very easy to input your survey and use and I've seen this being used
by a number of academics recently. I just entered a a survey yesterday
to see how it works and to analyze some data before I risk it with my
own survey instrument.  Feel free to go there and take the survey so you
see how it can be used.  These questions were just taken from a Gallup
survey I've seen recently.

If you use this for HS students you can ask teachers who agree to
participate to provide the students with the url and they can fill out
the survey at school or home on line.

Here is the link

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?A=15431690E2197

Note that all of your responses will be totally
confidential and I will
not even know that you have responded.  I am not able
to track your
involvement.


If you want to see the results after, you can click
here.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/Report.asp?U=31004463712


Thanks,

Stephen Brand



Mingo, Kendra wrote:

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>Our program is developing a formative evaluation tool to assess high
>school students' understanding and interest of genetics, with an focus
>toward the ethical, legal, and social issues of research focused on
>gene-environment interactions.  Given that the target audience is made
>up of high school students, I'm wondering if there are any interactive
>tools out there that museums or programs have used to do this.
>Additionally, does anyone know of examples in the literature that
>demonstrate successful evaluation tools to assess knowledge of genetics?
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>Thank you for any anecdotes or resources you can send my way.
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>Sincerely,
>
>Kendra A. Mingo
>Assistant Director, Community Outreach & Education Program
>Director, Hydroville Curriculum Project
>Environmental Health Science Center
>Marine Freshwater Biomedical Sciences Center
>Oregon State University
>223 Weniger Hall
>Corvallis, Oregon 97331-7302
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