I have learned in my Art Curriculum course that getting to know your students and their interests is crucial to developing engaging lessons. The use of a survey to gauge individual student’s prior knowledge, experience and interest was suggested by my Professor as a simple way to collect information at the start of the semester. Inspired by this suggestion, I have explored the use of Google Forms to create such a survey.
I found Google Forms to be a simple and intuitive tool for creating a welcome survey to collect information about students’ interests and preferences. Google Forms allows for a variety of question types such as short response, multiple choice and linear scale. I tested different question types in my form such as multiple choice for indicating a favourite type of art and the linear scale for ranking how much they enjoy art.
I believe that Google Forms would be a useful tool in my future classes to easily collect information from students. I can imagine creating other useful forms such as for self assessment, formative assessment and class feedback.
