NPS Bridging the Watershed Partnership Program

NPS & Alice Ferguson Bridging the Watershed Program

NPS & Alice Ferguson Bridging the Watershed (BTW)
Teacher Workshop Survey
NOTE TO REVIEWERS: The questionnaire below will be administered to a convenience sample of 15
teachers attending a training workshop as preparation to participate in BTW field studies with their
students.
Thank you for agreeing to complete this 3-minute survey. This information will help us to understand
more about your experience in the training workshop. We will use the results to plan and implement
future workshops. Your responses will be completely anonymous. The information you provide will
be summarized as a collective response from everyone that completes the survey.

Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: The Paperwork Reduction Act requires us to tell you why we are collecting this
information, how we will use it, and whether or not you have to respond. This collection will evaluate how local middle and
high school teacher assess of the quality of the NPS & Alice Ferguson Foundation Bridging the Watershed (BTW) Program.
Your input will be critical in understand the utility of the program. Your responses are voluntary and anonymous. Your name
and address will not be collected. At the completion of this collection all personal information will be destroyed and in no way
be connected with the results of this survey. A Federal agency may not conduct or sponsor and you are not required to respond
to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB Control Number.
Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting for this collection of information is estimated to be no more than three minutes
to complete the questionnaire or less than two minutes to answer the non-response questions. Send comments regarding this
burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to the
Information Collection Officer, National Park Service, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. (MS-242), Reston, VA 20192.

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Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements:

Agree

1

2

3

4

5

The workshop was beneficial.

1

2

3

4

5

The workshop enhanced my comfort for
teaching in an outdoor setting.

1

2

3

4

5

The workshop increased my comfort with
bringing my students to a national park to
participate in a BTW field study.

1

2

3

4

5

I have the information I need to plan and
follow through with bringing my students
to a national park to participate in a BTW
field study.

1

2

3

4

5

I am excited to do a field study with my
students.

1

2

3

4

5

I hope to do more than one field study.

1

2

3

4

5

I would like to visit more national parks in
the future.

1

2

3

4

5

Strongly
Agree

Uncertain

The workshop instructor made learning
interesting.

Strongly
Disagree

Disagree

Level of Agreement

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NPS & Alice Ferguson Bridging the Watershed (BTW)
Teacher Non-Response Workshop Survey

NOTE TO REVIEWERS: The non-response survey will be administered by the researcher to 2
non-respondents at the conclusion of the training workshop.

The researcher will read the following text aloud:
I would like 1 minute of your time to ask you for your response to the workshop. Please
place an ‘X’ in the box to indicate your agreement or non-agreement with two
statements about the workshop and finish the sentence asking why you did not
complete the full survey. Please return this form to me when you finish. Thank you!
Survey Item
The workshop was beneficial.

Yes

No

The workshop increased my comfort with bringing my students
to a national park to participate in a BTW field study.
I did not complete the full survey because. . .

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