PhD Student Survey Request

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#1

Hi everyone!

I have been a member of DMS for about 4 months now, and it is amazing! I am currently completing my doctoral degree at the University of North Texas and focusing on information sharing in makerspaces. I am asking members of the makerspace to take a survey located here: https://unt.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_40W1fH26YzPfYtT or contact me for a face to face interview through call or text at (940) 391-1872.

Thanks for your help! I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts on why the DMS is the best.
Rachel Hoyt

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Why is DMS the best!?
#2

I took your survey, and I have a suggestion.

In my experience, makers evolve over after the time when they first join. I have been a member for several years now, and I believe that if you had surveyed me at earlier times in my Makerspace journey, many of my answers would have been different. I suggest that in order to make sense of the data you receive you may need to correlate it to “how long have you been a member?”

That may not reveal anything, but if your resulting data don’t show any correlative factors it will be too late to go back and add that feature.

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#3

I think you might find some the interaction data from the Talk Forum interesting as well.

https://talk.dallasmakerspace.org/t/should-we-survey-membership-for-their-opinions/17437/80

#4

I also took the survey. Interested to see what the results are.

#5

I took the survey too. Like Photomancer said, it would be nice if you would share the data once, it’s been reduced.

#6

Thank you for all of the responses! I will definitely be sharing the results.

Thanks John for the question suggestion, while I can’t add the question for the survey, I will add it to the interview questions.

I will take a look at the interaction data, Frank, that’s a great idea!

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