I started working on the questionnaire by asking myself why I am using it and what I need to know, following the recurring advice from my readings on the subject (blog post).
I decided to use questionnaire to inform my focus group, to see what are the issues that my colleagues think are the most important in our Information Literacy teaching. I decided to ask about how we could improve and any methods that they think helped them already. I also wanted to know if there are any issues that they experienced when planning or running the sessions. The findings will help me to concentrate on the matters most relevant to my team in the focus group.
Once I knew what I need from my questionnaire I started composing the questions and writing them down on post-it notes.
When working on the questions I thought of using two with the rating scale to measure how my colleagues evaluate our students’ IL skills and our teaching as it is at the moment. Later I decided that only the latter will be relevant to what I needed to know at this point of my research. I think we could and should improve how we teach and it was interesting to see if we are all on the same page. I made sure I do not ask a leading question and used 5 points scale: from Poor to Excellent.
I gave the participants a chance to elaborate on their choice in question no.2. I think this was important to understand their answers to the first question better. It could give me lots of information on what is already working and what we want or need to work on.
I sent the questionnaire to five of my colleagues, four working in my team and one that I used to work with in the other library. All my participants replied swiftly and gave answers that helped me with my focus group planning.
My questionnaire that I used in the project, participants’ view and the whole document: