My survey process was challenging at first. At the time when I created my survey, I was unaware that I had setting issues. I began soliciting my survey to those that I wanted to participate and soon found out that the survey could not be taken from the same computer. This is when I printed a copy of my survey questions and began having students take the survey manually. This was a tedious process within itself. I soon found that I needed to go into the setting menu and make the adjustment allowing multiple users to participate. Then my students were able to input their survey information electronically.
As far what was interesting about this survey process was the responses I received. When I chose this subject for my research, I had no idea of what I was actually getting myself into. But it was easy for me because of my accessibility to people needed to participate. I was amazed at the response to most of the questions. I also was amazed at the number of children chose not to participate because they didn’t have a clue about what was about to happen in their life and really didn’t care. This would have to be disappointing to me, the fact that many students at this stage in their education don’t have a clue what they are going to do next, many didn’t know what school they were going to and didn’t show any interest in knowing.
I don’t think I would change any of the questions because I feel they pinpointed the exact information that I was going after. They were clear and easily understood by the students and parents that participated.
 This survey was given to 34 sixth grade students, in which, 13 of the 34 students actually completed the survey. Of the 13 students 8 were male and 4 were female and 1 person logged on and decided to skip the entire survey. 81% of the students surveyed were nervous about knowing they will be going to middle school next year; while 40%of the students were sad that they are going to leave elementary school. Of the students that responded to the stories either good or bad, expressed fear of a bigger school, not being accepted or if they were ready to meet new friends. The good expressions were the excitement of preparing for the challenges of the new classroom assignments and being able to change classes and have different teachers for each subject. Most are anticipating the new expectations and required reading that they have heard from students that are already in middle school have shared with them. Their hope is that they will not be bullied by their new peers and they hope they will be able to fit into the new school environment. They hope their parents will continue to be as supportive as they are for them right now in elementary school. They know the demands are greater and they are aware they have to learn how to organize and create a schedule and stick to it. The parents that were surveyed are excited that their child is moving on to middle school and they too know that it will be a challenge for both them and their child. They know that they will have to enforce more study hours and teach their child how to be more focused, if they aren’t already. Many of the parents surveyed agreed that they need to visit the middle school of their choice early, to give both them and their child an opportunity to see what to expect, rather than wait for the first day of school to see and avoid some of the overwhelming emotion that is tied to first day in a new school.
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Excellent job. Maybe you will be able to use Survey Monkey for future projects.