Objectives

1. Define appropriate classroom targets for attitude assessments.
2. Differentiate among open-ended, multiple choice, and ranking surveys.
3. Construct a classroom survey.
4. Create graphs and tables to effectively convey survey results.

Overview

It's no secret that motivated, interested students are more likely to succeed in school than students who are apathetic or depressed. In addition to measuring students' knowledge, reasoning, performance, and products, teachers also need to be able to gauge students' attitudes, feelings, and interests.

Surveys can be an effective means for assessing student attitudes. This lesson concentrates on defining appropriate targets for assessing student dispositions, creating effective survey instruments, and developing charts and graphs to display survey results.

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