We were able to finish editing the survey and share the link on the Tag Magnet facebook page composed by hundreds of previous TAG alumni. Hopefully we receive several responses. Further research has shown us that embryonic stem cells are becoming less controversial because of new findings and new procedures that can rid of the need for embryos such as the carbon nanotube scaffolds we discussed in past posts.

After the long weekend due to the snow that settled in, we are back continuing to work on our survey. It is almost complete, and we are just tweaking some of the pages, and will release it by this class or next class.

We have also continued to do research on stem cells, to solidify our knowledge of the topic.
The search for judges continues, and after the survey we will be asking people on the Facebook group to help judge our presentation. Since other students have found success here, we are hoping to also find two judges and get a time spot quickly.

After spring break, there isn't much time to work so we need to finish this quickly.

Today we compiled a spreadsheet with the responses so we can view them in an organized fashion. Ravnik gave us suggestions, and we made those changes to the survey. I have asked Amy Lupica to also take a look at the survey, and will be making any changes she suggests to it. Once we do this, the survey will be complete and ready for sending out.

The spreadsheet had to be formatted to fit responses that were longer than expected, as some have shorter answers than others. Thankfully, the survey automatically sends the responses to the spreadsheet, so it shouldn't be too hard to format all of the responses.

For sure by next class our survey will be ready to send out. We will be asking Mr. Correa to send it out, as well as posting the link up here.

Today we finished the survey, and asked Alexander Ravnik, a classmate who sits nearby, to complete it. He is knowledgeable in the science field, and we wanted some feedback on our form. He completed it near the end of class, and next class we will tweak our survey with his suggestions. For the most part, the survey itself was good and only required minor changes. After this it should be good for sending out to other people, hopefully by next class period.

We may also want to ask one or two other classmates to complete the survey and give feedback before officially sending it out.

Still working on the survey today, but we realized we had made a mistake and accidentally released it early. We already had one person complete the survey even though it wasn't finished. Even though it was a mistake, this helped us gain insight on what we needed to improve on and what questions we were missing, and we added some sections on personal information to help gain a better idea of our audience.
We closed the survey for now, and worked with some of the formatting to make it look more appealing. It is almost done and should be available for use within the next week or so.
We also considered requiring people to log into Google so we can see who is actually responding, but since not everyone has an account we decided against it.

We added a new page to our survey making it a four page survey. These new questions will be used to figure out how age and education levels affect the responses. They will also allow us to verify the merit and how trustworthy the responses are. We are still rewording and making sure that bias will not have a prominent effect in the responses. In this page we also added a few questions on cell viability.

Our survey now has multiple pages, with the format being:
Page 1 - general questions on prior knowledge
Page 2 - general stem cell research information and more questions
Page 3 - more specific information pertaining to the ethics and opinions of others

Further pages are still being considered, and wording has been a concern that is harder than it seems. The survey must be as unbiased as possible, and finding the right way to convey information without swaying the opinion of the survey taker is difficult.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1b-CuYzpDkulwgev4R3SaqW0yj7YXLZRxgXIypz36Z_8/viewform

We are unsure if this link will work since it is a "view form" link for our gmail accounts. Once we release the real thing, we will be posting the link up here.

Today we began our survey, using Google Forms.
While figuring out how to work the document, we also encountered the problem of wording and how to prevent people from accidentally looking ahead.

Using multiple pages seems to be the best way to avoid revealing information ahead of time. We will be releasing this survey via email as soon as we complete it and figure out a way to deliver it to everyone. Our best bet for doing this is asking Mr. Correa to send it out, like how Steven sent it out.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1b-CuYzpDkulwgev4R3SaqW0yj7YXLZRxgXIypz36Z_8/viewform

Today we continued our research and are searching up vehicles to deliver our survey. With the April deadline fast approaching, we need to push our survey and deliver it soon so that we have time to compile our data.

"Online Surveys

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that online surveys are becoming the most popular and cost effective type of surveys. The technology has grown rapidly and the number of people able to access the internet has grown as well. On a global scale, online surveys are the most cost-effective way to reach the greatest number of people.

However, email inboxes are quickly becoming the same as the mailboxes outside our doors, stuffed with mail we don’t want. This makes it easy to lump e-mailed survey invitations into the ‘junk mail’ category. But once someone responds to your survey, you will get the results immediately, eliminating the long wait times of mailed surveys."

https://www.nbrii.com/blog/what-type-of-survey-method-is-best/

We decided a while back to use an online method, and using Google forms seems the best route to take for this. We will begin working on it next class, since we spent time exploring our other options during this one.