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Basic Data About Your Program

1) What is the level of the institution at which you primarily teach journalism or communications?
Junior college	3-year-degree university	4-year-degree university	Grad school	Non-university or vocational school	Mid-career training program	Other

2) Approximately how many students were majoring in journalism or communications during the most recent academic term?

3) Does your journalism or communications program require its own application process for students, something in addition to university admission?

4a) Please select the skills or experience your program requires of enrolled students: (Check all that apply)
Professional experience Written skills Verbal skills Quantitative computation and reasoning Digital technology proficiency

4b) If you answered "Yes" to any of the items above, please briefly describe how students demonstrate meeting those requirements:

5) Please rate the overall quality of the technological infrastructure in your academic unit (e.g., e-mail, networked computers, software access, scanners, Internet connection, academic unit Web page).
	Outstanding 7	6	5	Acceptable 4	3	2	None 1
Rate technology

7) Does your academic unit require that faculty members make their syllabi and course calendars available online each semester?
Yes No

8) Please briefly describe any outstanding achievements or shortcomings in your program related to
(a) quantitative analytic skills and/or the (b) digital information environment.

Comments about how these skills are taught:

11) Does your journalism program have any published standards of quantitative analytic skills students are expected to meet?
Yes No

12) Does your journalism program have any published standards of computer skills students are expected to meet?
Yes No

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What Is Taught and How....

16) Please describe digital technologies, sites or applications you use regularly in your teaching.

17) Your students may learn about quantitative skills that support professional journalism work by:
a. Taking elective courses outside our academic unit b. Taking elective courses inside our academic unit c. Taking required courses outside our academic unit d. Taking required courses inside our academic unit e. Using quantitative skills in multiple academic unit courses or programs f. Not sure g. Other. [Please describe in the box below]

18) Your students may learn computer skills that support professional journalism work by:
a. Taking elective courses outside our academic unit b. Taking elective courses inside our academic unit c. Taking required courses outside our academic unit d. Taking required courses inside our academic unit e. Using computers in most of our academic unit courses f. Not sure g. Other. [Please explain in box below]

19) Are your students required to demonstrate -- by passing an examination before they graduate -- that they have quantitative, analytic and digital communications skills?
No Yes. If yes, please describe the test in the box below.

20) Would you support or oppose efforts to certify journalism students' digital and analytic skills as a condition of graduation? Why?

21) How regularly do you integrate the use of digital analytic tools such as advanced word processing techniques, spreadsheets, databases, GIS or blogs/workgroup programs into the course(s) you teach?
	In all courses 7	6	5	In about half my courses 4	3	2	Never 1
Teach skills?

22) If you do include quantitative analytic skills in your teaching, please describe:

23) Please check off all the competencies that your colleague(s) teach in your academic unit's journalism course(s). (If you are not familiar with the terminology, click here:)
1. Basic statistical computation 2. Interpretation of quantitative data 3. Statistical concepts 4. Specialized statistical procedures & tool use 5. Interpretation and creation of visual statistics 6. GIS (Geographic Information Systems) data and report interpretation 7. GIS map creation tools 8. Graphic image editing techniques 9. Publications software tool use 10. Other (Please describe)

24) Does your journalism program offer any courses specifically about using digital analytic tools and applications? If "yes," please describe briefly. (If you are not familiar with the terminology, click here:)
Yes No If yes, please comment.

26) How should quantitative skills be taught to journalists? How should digital skills be taught?

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Instructor's profile....

27) Please check the category that describes where you access digital technology. (Check all that apply)
My home	My "non-school" office	My school office	Other: Internet cafe, etc.

28) Please check all digital tools and activities that are part of your regular work:
Search your hard drive Download programs from the Web Use Internet search engines other than Google or Yahoo Bookmark favorite Web sites

30) Please enter the year of your birth.

31) Your gender?
Female Male

32) How many years have you worked as a professional journalist?
Never 0-1 year 2-3 years 4-7 years 8-10 years 10-15 years More than 15 years Comment?

33) How many years have you worked as a journalism educator (full or part-time)?
Never 0-1 2-3 years 4-7 years 8-10 years 10-15 years More than 15 years Comment?

35) Work status as a journalism educator?
Full time Part time

36) Do you currently work as a professional journalist, either full- or part-time?
Yes No If so, in which medium? Comment:

37) What is your highest earned educational degree?
1. High school graduate 2. Two-year associate or vocational degree 3. Three-year university degree 4. Baccalaureate (four-year) degree 5. Masters Degree or law degree 6. Doctorate 7. Other. (If "other," please elaborate)

38) If you studied in a university, what was your major or area of concentration as an undergraduate?

39) If you studied at the graduate level, what was your major or area of concentration?

40) How often did or do you use quantitative or analytic skills and methods in your past or current work as a professional journalist?
1. Daily 2. Weekly 3. Monthly 4. Occasionally 5. Never Comments?

41) How often did or do you use quantitative or analytic skills and methods in your work as a journalism educator?
1. Daily 2. Weekly 3. Monthly 4. Occasionally 5. Never Comments?

42) Have you participated in any workshops or other professional development programs for journalists in the past 12 months?
Yes No If yes, please describe:

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44) The name of your university:

45) Your university city?

46) Nation?

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