Survey Says...

Writing Survey

Results

I gave students a short survey pertaining to their interest (or lack thereof) in writing. It was very short, two questions and at the end they were asked to write a complete sentence. My RQ is: How does interactive writing effect independent writing. I felt part of independent writing I wanted to see change was their general sentence structure and ability to write a complete thought. Upon receiving the sentences I saw students writing about several differnet things.

One question asked how students felt about writing. It gave three faces, asking students to circle the way they felt. After analyzing the data, I found the following results:

As you see, 50% of students felt happy about writing, 19% felt indifferent, and 31% felt sad when they were asked to write. I feel like these numbers are significant in the fact that such a large percentage of students do, in fact, feel happy when they are asked to write.


When asked "Do you write hwen you are at home for fun? 50% of students said yes they write at home and 44% said no. I had one student who wrote in "some" and circled it because they didn't want to circle yes or no. (see below)

Sample Sentences

Below you will see some sample sentences the students wrote on their own when asked to write.

You will notice the pictures below show the students are happy when asked to write and she likes to write for fun.In he free write sentence she writes about how she loves to write about her family and feelings when she writes. He loves his mom and dad. This tells me she writes for "fun" or for "leisure" and that is probably writing comes more naturally to her, she has more practice and ENJOYS it.