Inquiry Team February Meeting

The Inquiry Team met on Friday, February 24, 2006 and shared their research designs and plans. Dr. Craig Mertler spoke about strategies for action research, specifically addressing reporting of results and writing for publication; he gratiously distributed copies of his book on action research to all attendees. Thank you Dr. Mertler!

After lunch, Inquiry Team members crafted their abstracts and titles for their studies. Those constructing survey tools to collect data, explored several online options including those listed below.

Online survey tools:

• surveymonkey.com (http://www.surveymonkey.com/)
• zoomerang.com (http://info.zoomerang.com/)
• web-online-survey.com (http://web-online-surveys.com/)
• surveywriter.com (http://www.surveywriter.com/site/index.html)
• coolsurveys.com (http://www.coolsurveys.com/)

NUD*IST, NVivo, or N6 info at QSR website ( http://www.qsrinternational.com/products/ )

SPSS Text Analysis for surveys ( http://www.spss.com/textanalysis_surveys/ )