A Design Thinking Perspective on Surveys: My interview with Dr. James Pann
Designing Quality Survey Questions - the book, the workshop, and the approach intentionally start with the word "design." We can craft surveys, develop surveys, write surveys, etc. but when we take a design approach to them, the mindset is a little bit...
Asked and Answered: Check All That Apply Survey Questions
This blog post is part of a series called Asked and Answered, about writing great survey questions and visualizing the results with high impact graphs. Dr. Sheila B. Robinson is authoring the Asked series, on writing great questions. Dr. Stephanie Evergreen is...
Asked and Answered: Rating Scale Survey Questions
This blog post is part of a series called Asked and Answered, about writing great survey questions and visualizing the results with high impact graphs. Dr. Sheila B. Robinson is authoring the Asked series, on writing great questions. Dr. Stephanie Evergreen is...
Net Promoter Survey Questions: I’m very likely to recommend you read this.
Have you ever encountered a survey question that asks, “How likely are you to recommend {name of business} to a friend? You probably found an 11 point (0-10) scale that accompanied the question with the endpoints labeled “not at all” and “extremely likely.” This...
New Year, New Newsletter: What is Professional Learning?
Happy New Year! Each year, just like many of you, I make... and usually break... the same resolutions, with the exception of one: I learn. In 2018, I learned how to create and launch my new website. That year, I also learned more about educational equity and...
My work is a little sketchy today…
I stopped using pencils in 5th grade. Without ceremony, my teacher rather mundanely announced to the class that we were now allowed to use pens on our school work. Pencils would henceforth no longer be required (except for math, of course). Huzzah! This...
Welcome to Custom Professional Learning!
A successful blogger once told me not to return from a blogging hiatus with "Well, it's been awhile since I've written." So, I'm definitely NOT starting this article with that! 😉 How's this? This blog and site are dedicated to the power and promise of professional...
Presentation Principles: Crowdsourcing Audience Feedback
Presentations aren’t just about the presenter and there are many reasons to maintain humility as a presenter. Certainly, it will endear you to the audience. Positioning yourself as a co-learner with your audience members, and not the only “expert” in the room opens up the possibility of having your presentations serve as learning experiences upon which you can build to advance your practice.
Hindsight is 20/20, even with surveys (Cross post with actionable data blog)
Yep, it’s another great co-post with the splendid Kim Firth Leonard, of the actionable data blog. lmost everyone (probably everyone, actually) who has written a survey has discovered something they wish they had done differently after the survey...
The CASM that Bridged a Chasm: When Cognitive Science Met Survey Methodology and Fell in Love! (cross post with actionable data blog)
hen Kim Firth Leonard of the actionable data blog and I write together, we usually refer to each other with a superlative - fabulous, magnificent, wonderful, etc. (all totally accurate, of course) - but now, I’m even prouder to call her co-author!...
Sheila B Robinson, Ed.D.
Inspiring talks and custom professional learning that meets your learning needs from a career educator and instructional designer.