Course Experience Questionnaire

An 8–10 minute, ungraded check-in on attendance, study habits, visualization tools and comfort in class, for the middle and end of the semester.

Course questionnaire
For instructors: what this asks and how to use it

What it asks

Thirty-nine multiple-choice items in seven sections: attendance, study time and habits, use of visualization tools (model kits, the course’s 3D tools, drawings, mental imagery), getting help (office hours, tutoring, study groups, videos, AI tools), comfort and confidence, outside demands (paid work, credit load, caregiving) and background (year, field, prior chemistry). There are no free-response questions. Every item is optional. The items were written for this course and are not a published, validated scale; report them as single items or check internal consistency before combining them.

Give it at the middle and end of the semester. Wording about the time period changes with the link: “so far this semester” at the middle, “since the middle of the semester” at the end. Five-point scales are stored as 1–5; the codebook lists every column and its coding, and a printable copy of all questions is ready for an IRB application.

Links, linking and collection

Add ?wave=middle&study=1 or ?wave=end&study=1 to this page’s address. The wave tags each response, keeps each wave’s saved progress separate, and study=1 asks for a uNID so responses can be matched with the visualization assessment and, for consenting students, with exam grades. The instructor page builds both links.

Collect results the same ways as the visualization assessment: a Canvas assignment (file upload or text entry, then Download Submissions and drop the .zip into the instructor page), or automatic collection with the same Google Apps Script, which puts questionnaire responses on their own Questionnaire tab. Keep linked responses in university-approved storage, and if you will publish, get IRB approval before you collect.