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I'd like your input about a school-wide questionnaire that I plan to distribute.

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GigaCluster

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I'm an officer of the Eagle Tech Club in my high school. As a fundraiser, we plan to do a fun "Matchmaker" activity on Valentine's week. What's going to happen is that every student will get a questionnaire to fill out in homeroom. Once all forms are filled out, they're collected and returned to the CS teacher. Then all this data will be input (inputted?) into a computer program which I wrote, and the program will print out a page for every student containing his/her matches. Then the student could buy his individual page for $1 or something. If even one third of the students will buy it (and what guy wouldn't buy a list of 30 girls with whom he's matched up?!?), it would bring in at least $1,000 of profit.
Here's where I'd like help:
Please look at the draft of the questionnaire that we're planning to use: http://www.johnround.f2s.com/matchmaker.pdf.
Then PLEASE let me know if you have any suggestions or comments regarding this.
Considering that this questionnaire will be distributed to the entire school (~3000 students), I want this form (and the questions) to be as perfect as possible.
I know that a lot of you out there can come up with additional questions to further refine the current structure.

Keep suggestions appropriate for high-schoolers and multiple-choice only.
Any suggestions and ideas are greatly appreciated!
 
it seems a little long to me... but then again i've never filled out one of these match-making questionnaries before.
 


<< it seems a little long to me... but then again i've never filled out one of these match-making questionnaries before. >>


Long - yes. However, with each question, we can match people more accurately. The important thing is coming up with good enough questions that would be worth adding to the questionnaire and increasing the time to fill this out.
 
Dude what the hells wrong with you...you list Pool and Bowling as favorite sports but not volleyball??? Your death should be swift 🙂 j/k
 
our school contracts this with an outside company and makes some money doing it - I can probably steal the form for you
 


<< Dude what the hells wrong with you...you list Pool and Bowling as favorite sports but not volleyball??? >>


Ahha, see, that's why I asked for input on these forums, so that such glaring mistakes could be pointed out to me...


<< Your death should be swift 🙂 j/k >>


...even if not in the most polite way. 😉 j/k

Thanks!
 


<< our school contracts this with an outside company and makes some money doing it - I can probably steal the form for you >>


Our school also used to do that, before I stepped up and offered to write a program to do that for us, so that we wouldn't have to give 50% of our profit to some outside company.
However, their form would be fantastic!
 
eh, i don't know about you, but i sure as hell wouldn't want to be one inputting this data by hand. 1000 forms! and what about human error? methinks you should go with a webpage form... no need to go through all the forms entering data, it's automatically put into the database!
 


<< our school contracts this with an outside company and makes some money doing it - I can probably steal the form for you >>



My school did the same thing. It was called datamatch, except the student council altered some of the questions to relate to the school like:

Which of the following would you most likely see yourself in?
A) Mr. Smith's Porsche
B) Mr. Jones's Saturn
C) Mrs. Martin's Explorer
D) Ms. Summer's 4Runner

(Names changed to protect the innocent.)
 


<< eh, i don't know about you, but i sure as hell wouldn't want to be one inputting this data by hand. 1000 forms! and what about human error? methinks you should go with a webpage form... no need to go through all the forms entering data, it's automatically put into the database! >>


Very good point about data input. I'm also dreading this. However, what we thought we'd do is have several "data inputters" working two at a time -- one interpreting the form (reading it out loud), one inputting the data. After each record is entered, the program displays a confirmation screen with all the selections which will then be double-checked for any errors. If the confirmation is approved, the record is saved to a database.
Regarding web: how would that make it easier? As it is right now, the program only requires a single keystroke to enter data... compare that to a form where there are forms, checkboxes, and all that other stuff that takes time. Besides, the program saves it all to a file, sorts, etc. Much simpler.
 


<< methinks you should go with a webpage form... no need to go through all the forms entering data >>


Oh, I didn't read this correctly the first time. You want 3,000 students to enter their data into a webpage form in 18 minutes? No no, that won't work. Even if one student could fill out the form in 3 minutes, which is doubtful, then only about 20% of each homeroom would get a chance to fill it out. An individual form for every student is easiest -- and it doesn't require training. 🙂
 
To cut down on data entry errors, you should probably just enter each questionnaire twice, compare them, and fix any differences.
 
Oh, I didn't read this correctly the first time. You want 3,000 students to enter their data into a webpage form in 18 minutes? No no, that won't work. Even if one student could fill out the form in 3 minutes, which is doubtful, then only about 20% of each homeroom would get a chance to fill it out. An individual form for every student is easiest -- and it doesn't require training. 🙂

oh it has to be within 18 minutes? maybe not then... i was thinking you could just have a week for them to fill it out at their leisure. i guess there are also other considerations to be taken into though... for one you'd have to have some sort of password protected access.
 


<< To cut down on data entry errors, you should probably just enter each questionnaire twice, compare them, and fix any differences. >>


Yeah, if I was paid at least minimum wage for data input, I'd consider that. However, since I'm paid a grand total of $0.00 (excluding the C++ knowledge that I gained while programming this, my CS teacher asserts), the confirmation screen will have to suffice. Besides, this isn't mission-critical data. If a mistake slips by, so be it. For a buck, 100% satisfaction cannot be guaranteed.



<< for one you'd have to have some sort of password protected access. >>


Password protected access to what?
 
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