Working Conditions Form

4) Your highest degree: PhD or Ed D MA/MS BA/BS high school

5) Gender: female male do not wish to be identified as male or female

6) Your official rank: tenured professor tenure-track professor instructor/lecturer/adjunct graduate student teaching assistant/fellow does not fit in well in one of these catagories (please explain at the end of this form).

7) Your approximate status, compensation, and prestige relative to others who teach in your department/unit: upper 5% upper 10% upper 25% middle 50% lower 25% lower 10% lower 5%

8) Your approximate status, compensation, and prestige relative to others who teach composition in your department/unit: upper 5% upper 10% upper 25% middle 50% lower 25% lower 10% lower 5%

9) How many sections of traditional, face-to-face composition did you teach in your sample term?
0 1 2 3 4 5 more than 5

10) How many sections of online composition (non-face-to-face) did you teach in your sample term?
1 2 3 4 5 more than 5

11) How many total sections (of any courses, online or not) did (or will) you teach in the academic year containing your sample term?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 more than 11

12) How much were you (or would you have been) paid per section for teaching traditional, face-to-face composition at your institution in your sample term?

13) How much were you paid per section for teaching online, non-face-to-face composition at your institution in your sample term?

14) How many students are typically enrolled in a single section of traditional, face-to-face composition at your institution in your sample term?

15) How many students are typically enrolled in a single section of online, non-face-to-face composition at your institution in your sample term?

16) What is the maximum number of students who can typically enroll in a single section of traditional, face-to-face composition at your institution?

17) What is the maximum number of students who can typically enroll in a single section of online, non-face-to-face composition at your institution?

18) Estimate the combined number of teaching, contact, and preparation hours per week per section that you spent (or would have spent) on a single section of traditional composition in your sample term:
1-2 2-4 4-6 6-8 8-10 10-12 12-14 14-16 16-18 more than 18 cannot determine

19) Estimate the combined number of teaching, contact, and preparation hours per week per section that you spent on a single section of online composition in your sample term:
1-2 2-4 4-6 6-8 8-10 10-12 12-14 14-16 16-18 more than 18

20) For whom did you work when you taught an online course in your sample term? The English Department? Continuing Education? A distance education program? A private company?

21) Briefly name or describe the software applications you used to teach your online course(s).

22) The percentage of students who failed or dropped out of your online composition course(s) was much greater than greater than about the same as less than much less than indeterminable compared to the percentage who fail(ed) or drop(ed) out of (your) traditional composition courses.

23) What motivated you to teach composition online?

24) Are there important points in general or clarifications about your answers that you would like to make?

25) Do you have suggestions for improving this survey?