The questionnaire has now been out for 2 weeks and I have only had 8 responses – I have pushed it twice and even printed out QR codes and left them around the studios, so at this point I am going to assume that these 8 responses will be all I will get. This is much fewer than I would have liked, as the year group is about 30 students, but I can’t fault them for being busy with the final project designs or outside lives.
Interestingly, I did also have 3 responses from people who were very evidently members of staff. I’m not sure how they thought the questionnaire was for them as it was included in a very specific email written to students, but somehow I was not clear enough in my intentions for the survey. I knew they were from staff as when asked “What do you use Supervised Studio sessions for?” there were three responses about using it as a way to check on student’s processes and timeline in an informal way. Whilst this is very true, it’s not the opinions or feedback I was looking for.
Thankfully, I did have some very honest and helpful responses from students. The open responses to question 10 – How could Supervised Studio sessions be improved, gave some especially helpful answers:
Student E – “Able to organise specific workshops with technicians for specific techniques”
Student B – “Maybe making some sign up sessions for the people who may have missed or couldn’t make the timetabled session.”
Student G – “Maybe not making them mandatory so you can attend if needed and have set knowledge of which teacher are around and in the session”
Interestingly, all of these idea that the students mentioned are things that already exist – meaning that we first and foremost need to deal with our communication issues!
Below are some screenshots of the data and responses collected in the questionnaire.
These open responses are in response to the rating they chose for Question 8, above.