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Let's begin with a situation. An instructor
(or instructors) want to gather student feedback about
several features of their courses, including online
discussion (which occurs in only some courses) and
face-to-face (f2f) discussion (ditto). Question Group 1 will
go to all courses, question group 2 (online discussion) to
some, and question group 3 (f2f discussion) to some courses.
The author(s) create their question groups
and their respondent pools (a respondent pool is a group of
people who all receive the same questions; in this case a
respondent pool is a course). For each respondent pool and
for each question group, the author(s) can add metadata.
Metadata (information about data) in
Flashlight Online 2.0 has two components: a key and a
value for that key. In our example, the key might be
"activity" and some of the values for that key might be
"online discussion" and "f2f discussion."
Rules for creating metadata:
- Key
- an alphanumeric string
(spaces allowed, case sensitive) to describe
the class of values being represented (can
not contain these 3 characters: "{"
"}" ":" )
- Value
- an alphanumeric string
(spaces allowed, case sensitive) that is the
value being represented.
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To create a matrix
survey, an author:
- Creates two or more question
groups. One or more of those would be assigned
some metadata
(e.g., "activity:online discussion")
[Notice that there are no blank spaces between
the key, the colon, and the value)
- Creates two or more
respondent pools. One or more of those
would be assigned some metadata
(e.g., "activity:online discussion")
If a question group has no
metadata, then people in all the respondent pools
will see it.
The result might look like this:
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Question
Groups
Respondent Pools |
Question
Group 1
(no meta
data) |
Question
Group 2 on online discussion
(activity:online discussion) |
Question
Group 3 on f2f discussion
(activity:f2f discussion) |
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Workshop
1
(no
meta data) |
X |
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Workshop
2
(activity:online discussion) |
X |
X |
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Workshop
3
(activity:online discussion)
(activity:f2f discussion) |
X |
X |
X |
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Workshop
4
(activity:f2f discussion) |
X |
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X |
Workshop 1 has no metadata so its
students only get question group 1 (which also has
no metadata).
Workshop 2 has metadata
(activity:online discussion), so its students see
question group 1 (no metadata so it's a 'universal
donor') and question group 2 about online
discussion.
Workshop 3 has two lines of
metadata: "activity:online discussion" and
"activity;f2f discussion" so it gets all three
groups of questions.
Workshop 4's metadata
("activity:f2f discussion") matches that for
question group 3, so its students get those
questions plus the questions from Group 1.
To see how these metadata are
actually entered for question groups and respondent
pools in Flashlight Online 2.0,
click here
(apologies for the low resolution of YouTube!)
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