In a typical EFL context, such activities might include brainstorming activities, games, quizzes, surveys (in-class or within the institution during lesson time), group debates, role plays, simulations, collaborative creative writing, presentations, and speeches.
Students completed the survey in class on a regular school day.
Children were given written and verbal information about the survey in class and were free to renounce from participation without giving any reason.
In the future, to increase the response rate, we will administer the survey in class while also ensuring respondent anonymity by having an unrelated member of the faculty administer the survey without the instructors present.
Through extensive field surveys and in class research from 2010-2011, the SPECIAL methodology led to the development of the capstone project that tested the content methodologies for engaging the visually challenged children.
Group 1 completed a concept inventory (CI) online outside of class using the LASSO platform, and an attitudinal survey (AS) in class using paper and pencil (Fig. 1).
All questionnaires were completed online through 'Survey Monkey' in class, with an ID number assigned.
A new version of a previously validated questionnaire and an instrument from the literature (the Examining Fellow Student [EFS] questionnaire) were used for a cross-sectional survey in a class of 129 3rd year medical students and in two parallel classes of 1st year osteopathic students (total of 112 students).
However, instructors are finding that students are much less likely to participate in these surveys than in traditional in-class paper-and-pencil surveys (Dommeyer et al. 2004; Stowell et al. 2012; Nulty 2008; Nair et al. 2008; Goos and Salomons 2017).
Participation was measured with a list of eight Likert-type items from the Student End survey that investigated in-class behavior and out-of-class preparation.
