Distance Learning - Online Survey Results 2002

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Course Survey Objective Report for Year 2002 - 2003

North Seattle Community College – Distance Learning
School Year 2002 – 2003: Online Survey Results

Total number of students surveyed          2896
Total number of respondents                     232
Percent of recipients who responded       12.48%

Purpose of Survey (as prefaced on the form itself):

“Please answer the questionnaire below. We encourage you to share with us BOTH positive and negative experiences! The contents of your responses are kept confidential and will not affect your grade.”
“This questionnaire helps us evaluate our distance courses (online, videocassette and ITV) in order to improve our programs and services. It is NOT AN EVALUATION OF THE INSTRUCTOR. If you have comments in that regard, they should be directed to the division associate deans and/or through standard evaluation forms. Thank you so much for your participation in North Seattle Community College’s Distance Learning program."

For the multiple choice questions, the numbers correspond to:
5 = strongly agree /4 = agree /3 = neutral /2 = disagree /1 = strongly disagree
/NS = not selected

	Totals		Sum 02		Fall 02		Win 03		Spr 03
3. Adequacy of available hardware for completing course assignments was:
	Num.	%	Num.	%	Num.	%	Num.	%	Num.	%

5	149	64.22%	4	66.67%	57	64.04%	51	65.38%	37	62.71%
4	53	22.84%	1	16.67%	19	21.35%	16	20.51%	17	28.81%
3	22	9.48%	0	0.00%	8	8.99%	11	14.10%	3	5.08%
2	3	1.29%	1	16.67%	1	1.12%	0	0.00%	1	1.69%
1	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%
NS	5	2.16%	0	0.00%	4	4.49%	0	0.00%	1	1.69%
Response totals	232	100.00%	6	100.00%	89	100.00%	78	100.00%	59	100.00%

	Totals		Sum 02		Fall 02		Win 03		Spr 03
4. Adequacy of available software for completing course assignments was:
	Num.	%	Num.	%	Num.	%	Num.	%	Num.	%

5	161	69.40%	2	33.33%	67	75.28%	49	62.82%	43	72.88%
4	51	21.98%	1	16.67%	16	17.98%	21	26.92%	13	22.03%
3	14	6.03%	2	33.33%	5	5.62%	5	6.41%	2	3.39%
2	4	1.72%	1	16.67%	1	1.12%	2	2.56%	0	0.00%
1	1	0.43%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	1	1.28%	0	0.00%
NS	1	0.43%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	1	1.69%
Response totals	232	100.00%	6	100.00%	89	100.00%	78	100.00%	59	100.00%

	Totals		Sum 02		Fall 02		Win 03		Spr 03
5. Adequacy of your technology skills for completing distance learning work was:
	Num.	%	Num.	%	Num.	%	Num.	%	Num.	%

5	129	55.60%	2	33.33%	47	52.81%	41	52.56%	39	66.10%
4	56	24.14%	1	16.67%	19	21.35%	21	26.92%	15	25.42%
3	33	14.22%	2	33.33%	16	17.98%	10	12.82%	5	8.47%
2	3	1.29%	1	16.67%	1	1.12%	1	1.28%	0	0.00%
1	2	0.86%	0	0.00%	1	1.12%	1	1.28%	0	0.00%
NS	9	3.88%	0	0.00%	5	5.62%	4	5.13%	0	0.00%
Response totals	232	100.00%	6	100.00%	89	100.00%	78	100.00%	59	100.00%

	Totals		Sum 02		Fall 02		Win 03		Spr 03
6. Quality of access to and assistance from the technical support team was:
	Num.	%	Num.	%	Num.	%	Num.	%	Num.	%

5	142	61.21%	2	33.33%	58	65.17%	49	62.82%	33	62.26%
4	45	19.40%	1	16.67%	18	20.22%	18	23.08%	8	15.09%
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