Thank you for agreeing to complete this survey about your experience piloting the Orange Revolution project in your classoom. Your detailed feedback is vital to our efforts to improve the efficacy of the Orange Revolution curriculum and simulation. Point-form answers are fine. All your responses will remain anonymous, so please be frank in your answers!
Herb Wideman
Senior Researcher,
Institute for Research on Learning Technologies
York Unviersity
* Please list the course(s) you used the Orange Revolution lessons/unit with (include grade level and stream).
* Did you find the Orange Revolution lesson plans (and the pedagogical strategies they called for) useful and effective? If so, how? Do you have any suggestions for improving them?
* Did you think the lesson plans did a good job of setting the context for the Orange Revolution? If not, why not?
* What level of understanding of the Orange Revolution do you think students will get based on the lesson plan content?
* Did you find the assessment/evaluation components useful? If so, how? Do you have any suggestions for improving them?
* Are there any topics that have not been included which you think would add to the lesson plan content?
* In their current format, will you be able to integrate the lesson plans into your classroom instruction? If not, why not?
* Did the simulation game fit well into the lesson plans/broader unit? Do you have any suggestions for improving it in that regard?
* Did the simulation game do a good job of reinforcing the key learnings/points from the lesson plans? If not, do you have any suggestions for improvements?
* When using the game, were there any technical issues or difficulties with computers or game access encountered? If so, please describe.
* Looking at the design of the game—was the game easy for students to use? If not, what might be done to improve its design and interface?
* To what degree did playing the game engage your students? Please describe.
* How did your students play the game – singly, or in pairs or groups? What type of interactions did you see students having as they played the game?
Do you have any sense of what students learned from playing the game, either in terms of content knowledge or skills developed? If so, please describe. If learning outcomes were lacking, do you have any suggestions for improvements?
* For a typical teacher, would the teacher’s guide in conjunction with the lesson plans be sufficient preparation for using the unit and game, or do you feel some other professional development support would be needed? If so, what should it be ?
* How well do you think the unit portrayed Canada’s role in the Orange Revolution?
Do you have any other recommendations for improving the game to increase student engagement or better develop their knowledge and skills?
* Did the unit deepen your own understanding of the Orange Revolution, and Canada's role in it?
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