This is an actual online survey conducted March-April 2009

Survey Questionnaire

First Contact

Dear Geoscience Faculty Member

We are trying to understand how geoscience is currently taught in the  United States and the ways in which faculty learn about the content  
and methods that they use.   Last month we sent you the link to this national survey.  We realize that the timing of the survey may have  
come during a particularly busy time of the school year.

Your information is extremely important to us, because you are a member of the geoscience teaching community.  A high response from  
this group determines the accuracy of our data and is fundamental to  guiding opportunities for professional development offered by the  
Cutting Edge project.

If you are willing to answer the survey, you can find the questionnaire at:

https://statisticalresearchcenter.aip.org/cgi-bin/ce.pl?id=63094

Rest assured that this will be our final email regarding this national  survey.  If you do not wish to respond to  the survey, could you share  
your reasons with us by hitting Reply to this e-mail and checking the  appropriate response at the bottom of this e-mail?  Thank you.

Please contact Julius Dollison at jdolliso@aip.org or at 301-209-3059  if you have trouble accessing the questionnaire, or if you have any  
other questions.



Our thanks in advance,

Cathy Manduca, Carleton College
Heather Macdonald, College of William and Mary
David Mogk, Montana State University
Barbara Tewksbury, Hamilton College


I have not responded to your survey for the following reason (s):   (Please check all that apply)

___  I am too busy
___  I do not answer surveys
___  I have not taught any courses for the past year or more
___  I did not think you were including people in my discipline
___  I do not value the goals of your study
___  Other (please describe)

Second Contact (4/14/90)

Dear  Charles Hammersley,

This is our final request.  We have e-mailed you several times asking that you participate in a survey of geoscience faculty across the United States.  We have not heard from you and are asking you 
one last time to complete our survey.  We have received several queries and want to clarify that we are including geography as part of the geosciences.  So if you work in geography, we would 
appreciate receiving your response to the survey.
 
If you do not intend to answer the survey, could you tell us why by hitting Reply to this e-mail and checking the appropriate response at the bottom of this e-mail?  Thank you. 


If you are willing to answer the survey, you can find the questionnaire at:

https://statisticalresearchcenter.aip.org/cgi-bin/ce.pl?id=63094


Please contact Julius Dollison at jdolliso@aip.org or at 301-209-3059  if you have trouble accessing the questionnaire, or if you have any other questions,

Our thanks in advance,
Cathy Manduca, Carleton College
Heather Macdonald, College of William and Mary
David Mogk, Montana State University
Barbara Tewksbury, Hamilton College


I have not responded to your survey for the following reason (s):   
(Please check all that apply)

___  I am too busy
___  I do not answer surveys
___  I have not taught any courses for the past year or more
___  I did not think you were including people in my discipline
___  I do not value the goals of your study
___  Other (please describe)

Third Contact (4/14/09)

Greetings  Charles Hammersley,

Our apologies if you were put off by the email sent earlier today regarding the survey of geoscience faculty.  We suspect that you  
recognized that this was not the usual tone of our communications with  you, a community of very busy folks whose help we appreciate  
tremendously.   Please find a more typical request below.

We do hope that you will complete the survey if you have not already  done so.  It is an important opportunity for us to learn both how  
geoscience teaching is changing, and how we can better serve you  through professional development opportunities.    This survey follows  
from the one completed in 2004, and as such gives us a real measure of  changing practice in the geosciences.  It should provide very  
interesting results and be of high interest not just to geoscientists  but to those involved in all aspects of undergraduate education.


Sincerely,

Cathy Manduca, Carleton College
Heather Macdonald, College of William and Mary
David Mogk, Montana State University
Barbara Tewksbury, Hamilton College