Imagine you are researching how a new university partnership with your school is impacting teachers. Describe a qualitative or quantitative data collection strategy you could take to study how this partnership influences teachers. Additionally, describe one or two technology tools that would help with your research and explain why they would be useful.
What will be an ideal response?
• Describing the data collection strategy: an online survey will be administered to teachers, using the literature to guide the questions that used. From the literature, an existing survey was adapted, and permission was obtained from the original creator of the survey.
• Describing technology tool(s): Survey Monkey was used for administering the survey to teachers. The platform enables the researcher to include both close-ended and open-ended questions. After data collection, the data file will be downloaded in an Excel file to complete analysis.
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