The Details for the Questionnaire:
Thank you for signing up for the Earthquake Education Workshop! We are excited that you are coming and we are looking forward to meeting you. We have designed the following questionnaire to best meet your needs, and appreciate the time you are taking to complete it. The purpose of this questionnaire is twofold. First, we will use your answers to personalize the workshop. Please answer the questions as honestly and thoughtfully as possible. You are not being graded/evaluated on your responses. Second, we will use your answers to study the impact of this Earthquake Education Workshop on your professional development as an educator. Your responses will provide insight into how the program can be improved for educators that participate in future Earthquake Education Workshops. In addition, there is interest in how the program provides educators with the opportunity to learn new content knowledge as well as revisit known content from a new perspective. Your participation in this survey is completely voluntary. By providing a PIN number (or word) of your choice, you are giving your informed consent for participation in this survey. All of the information collected will be kept strictly confidential. The data will be reported collectively only; no individual educator will be identified in any way. The PIN will only be used to correlate your pre-workshop answers with your post-workshop answers. The number will not be used to identify you or your responses. Please select something you will remember like the last 4 digits of your phone number or the name of your spouse, but original enough to avoid having the same PIN as someone else (ie: NOT 1234).
The last component of the Earthquake Eduction Workshop will be completing a similar survey. We want to find out how your experience over this daylong program influences your responses. Thank you for your participation.
The Questionnaire
This section asks questions about content knowledge related to earthquakes. Please check the item that you think is the BEST answer to the question. Remember this is designed to help us make the workshop more effective for you so please answer these questions on your own. Do not consult friends, books or the internet to answer the questions - it is perfectly okay if you do not know the answer
1. Earthquakes produce many different kinds of waves. If you were to experience a local earthquake (within 100 km (62 miles) of where you live) which wave would you feel first?
2. Which of Earth's layers forms the plates of plate tectonics?
3. New crust (e.g. oceanic crust) is created at a __________________.
4. What kind of faults do you expect to find along divergent plate boundaries?
5. The amount of energy released in a magnitude 7.0 earthquake is about ____ times greater than the energy released in magnitude 5.0 earthquake.
6. The elastic rebound theory refers to:
7. Stored strain energy is released during an earthquake. This energy is converted to ____________ during the earthquake.
8. The collapse of 10 - 13 story buildings in the 1985 Mexico City earthquake was due primarily to:
9. The greatest loss of life in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake resulted from:
This section asks for your opinion on educational practices. Select the phrase that best corresponds to your answer to each of the following questions. Please provide any additional comments in the space provided.
10. I feel comfortable teaching my students how to plot earthquake locations and depths on a map.
11. I feel comfortable teaching my students about seismic waves.
12. I feel comfortable teaching my students about plate tectonics.
13.I feel comfortable teaching content topics related to earthquakes in the context of national, state, and/or or local science content standards.
14. I feel comfortable having a discussion with my colleagues about the value of teaching earthquake content topics to students.
15. I feel comfortable searching for earthquake science and engineering resources on the worldwide web.
16. I feel comfortable teaching my students about the earthquake cycle and issues related to earthquake prediction.
17. I feel comfortable teaching my students how structures are designed to resist the effects of earthquakes.
18. I feel comfortable teaching my students about current events in earthquake science and engineering.
Thank you for taking the time to complete the questionnaire.