LEARNER CENTERED EDUCATION SURVEY*
Dr. Kathryn Holleque, Professor
Division of Education and Psychology
VCSU, Spring Semester, 1998
1. Blacken "A" if you are male. Blacken "B" if you are female.

2. In which class are you?
A. Freshman B. Sophomore C. Junior D. Senior E. Other

3. What is your age? A. 18 years or younger B. 19 C. 20 D. 21-22 E. Over 22

Please complete the remaining questions using this key:

    Not at all B) Very little C) Somewhat D) Very much E) Most definitely
In your courses overall this academic year, to what extent has using a notebook computer:

4. helped you to pursue personally meaningful goals?

5. made the learning experience meaningful and fun?

6. enhanced your ability to set learning goals and experience success in meeting them?

7. involved you actively in the learning process?

8. broadened ways for you to receive and/or present information?

9. contributed to your higher-level thinking?

10. enabled you to engage in student-centered projects and activities that promote student choice and responsibility?

11. made the learning environment supportive and positive?

12. contributed to making the learning environment less threatening?

13. increased your level of motivation?

14. supported your curiosity and intrinsic interest in learning?

15. contributed to meeting your individual learner needs?

16. enabled you to integrate and organize knowledge in personally meaningful ways?

17. provided a variety of settings for learning (e.g., working by yourself, working with others, working as a member of a team)?

18. helped diminish a sense of competition in learning?

19. fostered cooperation in learning?

20. empowered you to meet your learning needs?

21. helped you to increase the overall quality of your personal relationships?

22. broadened your awareness of and appreciation for the diversity among people?

23. made the learning environment more responsive to your learning needs?

24. helped you to assume personal responsibility for learning?

To what extent is Valley City State University a place that has:

25. Helped you pursue personally meaningful goals?

26. Made the learning experience meaningful and fun?

27. Enhanced your ability to set learning goals and experience success in meeting them?

28. Involved you actively in the learning process?

29. Broadened ways for you to receive and/or present information?

30. Contributed to your higher-level thinking?

31. Enabled you to engage in student-centered projects and activities that promote student choice and responsibility?

32. Made the learning environment supportive and positive?

33. Made the learning environment less threatening?

34. Increased your level of motivation?

35. Supported your curiosity and intrinsic interest in learning?

36. Contributed to meeting your individual learner needs?

37. Enabled you to integrate and organize knowledge in personally meaningful ways?

38. Provided a variety of settings for learning (e.g., working by yourself, working with others, working as a member of a team)?

39. Helped diminish a sense of competition in learning? 

40. Fostered cooperation in learning?

41. Empowered you to meet your learning needs?

42. Helped you to increase the overall quality of your personal relationships?

43. Broadened your awareness of and appreciation for the diversity among people?

44. Made the learning environment more responsive to your learning needs?

45. Helped you to assume personal responsibility for learning?

*Questions relate to several learner centered psychological principles referenced by the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL) in their guidelines for school redesign and reform.  Copyright pending.  All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.