Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Making the House system the focus of the survey biases the outcome. The questionnaire assumes that the Houses do play a central role in the lives of undergraduates. Since they don't for the majority of students, many of the questions won't provide information about the real undergraduate experience. For example, there are two choices under "where do you study?": the House or your room. Since my room is in my House, which do I put? What if I study somewhere else, or nowhere...
...There are no questions about time commitment or level of involvement with extracurriculars and academic work. Since lack of time is an endemic Harvard disease, how can you omit this aspect of our undergraduate experience from a survey that purports to examine "college life"? There are questions ad nauseum about house life, house community, house committees and house masters. But if no substantial house life actually exists, then the survey's questions won't be worth a farthing. In the survey, I put my extracurriculars at the top of my list of "meaningful" Harvard experiences...
...development of your sense of social responsibility and contribution to society." A variety of choices, including "House experience," are listed. Who says Harvard students necessarily have a "sense of social responsibilty"? Who would say that the "House experience" promotes this kind of responsibility? And why is this on a survey about College life? Strange...
...survey could help bring about change, Boksaid, because it formalizes evaluation of theCollege and provides empirical proof for studentcomplaints. Furthermore, if the results pointclearly to specific problems, they could promptthe faculty and administration...
...methods of collecting the survey will varyfrom house to house and College officials saidtheir goal is a 75 percent response rate to thequestionnaires. Whitla said that in the past,similar surveys have garnered 68-75 percentresponse rates