Kieran Lal wrote:
... How would you describe yourself as a Drupal administrator? (select all that apply) This, and several others, seem to be "pick the best one" questions, not "select all that apply" questions. New user Non-technical user developing community or social change web site forced to become "accidental technologist" The nature of the web site doesn't seem relevant. How about: " Non-technical user developing a web site, and becoming adept at the technology" Inexperienced with Drupal but curious. Learning fast based on other web site building experience Should this just be "Inexperienced with Drupal but learning fast, based on ..."? Experienced user, comfortable with configuring site rapidly Perhaps "Experienced administrator, ..." would be better. I expect most participants won't have the benefit of the recent discussions on terminology for users, administrators, developers, etc. ... How frequently do you administer you your Drupal site? (select all that apply) Again, pick the best one. ... How long do you administer your Drupal site in a single sitting approximately? (select all that apply) Ditto ... How does Drupal help you accomplish your goals as a web site administrator? (select all that apply) Rapid deployment of features and ability to meet customer requirements saves time Strike "saves time", it's implied by "rapid". Web based content publishing is easy and allows for end user contributions Learnable website that can be taught to users and allows website developers to leverage existing learning when building new sites This seems to be two separate items. Allows for monitoring and logging of the website Module configuration, extensibility with new modules, and clean code make it easier to configure the website as you need it How about "easy to customize", just to read better? Dynamic and exciting community allows for rapid and fun learning Does community mean "Drupal user community"? Or the community that the person is creating? ... How does Drupal help your users? ... Cost effective and winning over non-technical decision makers I can't parse this. Should it be "Cost effective, easy to convince non-technical decision makers"? ... What are some common Drupal administration tasks? (select all that apply) Should this be "select all", "select no more than 3", or something else? In this case, "select all" is meaningful, but I don't think it's the right question.
I'd also change it to read "What are _your_ ...", so it's clear it's about what they do, not what they think Drupal administrators in general do.
... What are some infrequent Drupal tasks? (select all that apply) Ditto, but see next comment. Add new features by adding modules or coding new features ... Modify site navigation Other_______________ The fact that this list differs from the preceding list suggests that you already believe these to be infrequent. But does that mean that if the respondent doesn't check something, it means that it's a frequent task, or that it's not a task at all? Or more to the point, what is this question trying to learn? Should it be something like "These are some Drupal tasks that are done less frequently. Which of these do you consider important?"
When you administer your site you find it easy to: (1 is not easy, 5 is very easy) ... When you administer your site you find it hard to? (1 is not hard, 5 is very hard) The duality here is a bit more meaningful, but still confusing. Why not combine these into one question?
Regardless, having the first one be "1 is not easy" and the second one be "1 is not hard" will cause people to mess up. If you want to keep these as two separate questions, then perhaps it would work better if you asked "Do you agree or disagree that the following are easy tasks?", and "Do you agree or disagree that the following are difficult tasks?", with 1 being strongly agree and 5 being strongly disagree. I'm not positive this would be better, but it feels better to me. Another alternative would be to just move the questions away from each other, so that the respondent doesn't trip over the flipping of the scale.
What other important tasks did not fit into the categories above for you? Which categories? There's frequent/infrequent and easy/hard. If something isn't checked, does that mean it's not important, or that it's neither easy nor hard, or what?
My expectation when I read "What other important tasks" is that there will be a text area for me to insert arbitrary items. If these have already been identified as possible tasks, why aren't they just included above?
... Setting up a testing process including creating a test role, soliciting feedback from users, configuring corrections, and working with module development process to get bugs resolved Should this be split into a testing item and a bug fix item?
I hope this is helpful. It it's not, let me know and I'll shut up. Gary