Research on teachers' skills in developing online surveys

According to European Commission document entitled Improving the Quality of Teacher Education (2007), "the professional development implies that teachers undertake classroom based research and incorporate into their teaching the results of classroom and academic research." An important component of this research is the surveys method. Online surveys are a modern and more convenient alternative for the classical paper and pencil questionnaires. This paper presents a quantitative research of teachers' skills in developing online questionnaires. 35 teachers enrolled into the Curriculum Management Master's program were involved in this research. They were guided to create and apply online surveys, and to interpret the results. Each step of their activities was analyzed, and their feedback were gathered. All teachers consider the survey method to be an important or a very important part of their teaching activity, and 82% of them would choose the online survey instead of the paper and pencil survey. However, almost 30% of them consider that they have difficulties developing online surveys.