Surveys

[SanliFaez]

%before and after, to understand the knowledge of the participants and the effectiveness of the workshop%

Before taking the workshop

After taking the workshop

[JeroenBosman]

General suggestions:

• keep it very short (max 4 questions / 3 minutes)
• anonymous
• open to workshop participants only
• able to link pre-and post answers on individual basis?
• none of the questions with required answering

Suggestions for pre-workshop questions

• have you in any way been involved in studying commons?
• have you in any way been involved in a real-life commons initiative?
• what is you one-sentence definition of a commons?
• what would make this workshop a success for you personally?
• ...

Suggestions for post-workshop questions

• please share your two main insights during this workshop
• what follow up actions / next steps would you like to see happen (list 6-8 answer options, include "other", let people check up to two)
• what follow up actions / next steps would you be willing to spend a minimum of 1 day on in 2019 (same answer options)
• are you OK with us publicly but anonymously sharing/quoting the (anomymized) insights you shared in the first question of this survey?

[bvreede]

Pre- and post-workshop Define ownership in your view on a scale from [1] university board (staff?) - [5] commons (? maybe elaborate on individual steps?)

• Where would you place ownership of the university?
• Where would you place ownership of the scientific knowledge produced by the university?
• Where would you place ownership of education and educational materials?
• ...? Perhaps also ask this question twice: where do you think ownership is and where do you think it ought to be?

(brainstorm to be continued!)

That said, I wonder if quantitative insights will be at all useful given the expected number of participants? We could also (or additionally) aim for qualitative responses that can serve a dual purpose: they can help us prepare prior to the workshop, and help evaluate after. Jeroen's suggestions are much better in this direction.

[JeroenBosman]

We have been pondering on an approach that would be valuable and stimulating during the workshop, but also give insight on the extent to which people changed their minds over the course of the workshop. In addition, we wanted the content of the questions to be directly related to issues we will be dealing with, especially during the afternoon session. Finally we were looking for an approach with the smallest chance of a "duh" result.

We now propose to ask four questions:

• Where do you place ownership and governance of the university?
• Where do you place ownership and governance of research data/results?
• Where do you place ownership and governance of university spaces (e.g. laboratories, library, meeting spaces)?
• Where do you place ownership and governance of academic courses?

The participants answer the question by placing a dot on this (physical!) matrix (we will have four matrices; one for each question):

We can use these instructions:

An option would be to give participants time to answer the question for themselves, by giving them their own small print-out, and then ask them to come forward and place their answers on the large, common matrix.

We ask theses questions twice:

• Before the workshop (either in the complete beginning, or at the start of the afternoon session; this could even depend on the question, such as: ask one question at the start of the workshop as a whole, then ask the other three at the start of the afternoon session; then all four questions again at the end)
• At the end of the workshop

We will ask these questions in two different ways:

• What is the current situation?
• What would be the (i.e. your) desired situation?

So, essentially, we will ask each question four times. Each time we ask the question, the participants respond by placing a colored dot (sticker, possibly with a number that is unique to the participant, so that we can connect their answers later) on the matrix. Each time we ask the question, they will use a differently colored dot. At the end of the process, the matrices could look something like this (result of a comparable exercise at a previous workshop on a wholly different topic):

A few questions for you:

• Do you like the approach?
• Are these (ownership/governance) the most relevant two dimensions and are they phrased correctly?
• Are these the most relevant 4 questions, are they phrased correctly? This latter question is especially important, as our 3 current 'sub'questions are not tightly related to the two topics of the afternoon session, yet do cover three main areas of university activity/resources: research, education, facilities.

[SanliFaez]

suggestion for final set of questions:

• what worked with the workshop?
• what did not work?
• what surprised you?

Also questions regarding perceptions can be added, how much power do you think you have? how empowered you feel now? etc.