Are these semi-structured interview questions? Likert-scale? Open-response?
Discourse analysis would give you a chance to use the Python NLTK (and r). And Likert-scale would be a good reason to use r... If you're using Likert-scale you'll want multiple items to assess one measure... (See Gliem & Gliem's (2003) "Calculating, interpreting, and reporting Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient for Likert-type scales"...) <point> I think it would be easier to make suggestions if we knew how you're going to structure this...</point> On 01/25/2012 12:21 PM, Ivaylo Ganchev wrote: > Hello, > > during the first term of this university year we pushed some of our > students to work on free/open source projects in order to validate a > course on "comprehension of programs". Actually the term is coming at its > end and we would like to prepare a questionnaire in order to probe how our > students felt with this course. For now there are couple of questions that > are focused on : > > * benefice of working on existent/working project (and not on a pure > academic project) > * benefice on working on an open source project (collaboration, > communication, licensing etc...) > * skills required in order to have a decent experience on a similar > project (programming languages, programming tools etc...) > * motivation (was it stimulating to work on a FLOSS project). > > What other questions do you think would be interesting to ask students ? I > can't figure about how to "measure" the right way this experience in order > to produce a meaningful output. > > Best, > -- > Ivaylo Ganchev > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
