From your own experience, describe on occasion when you filled out a questionnaire or survey. Did you feel that questionnaire/survey asked meaningful questions or asked for meaningful opinions?
I am a mentor for the Loyola Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, an autonomous branch of Loyola Unversity Maryland that seeks to:
- Increase a sense of innovation and foster entrepreneurship among students
- Increase relationship with other innovation institutions and with small businesses/ startups in Baltimore city
- Improve relationship with local community and provide resources for the local business ecosystem, particularly small businesses featuring founders of color.The Loyola CIE has a yearly accelerator called the Baltipreneurs, which has various speakers and experts talk about various aspects of starting and growing a business. Every week, surveys are disseminated to the accelerator participants, mentors, and staff to provide feedback for that week’s speaker and programming. I felt that this survey DID ask for meaningful opinions and feedback; it asked what we thought of that week’s content, whether we thought it should be repeated next year (which is a good way of getting around “yeah,it was good” and really getting to the heart of “was this useful and helpful and should we do it again”), what we would like to see the following week, and any feedback we had for the content or speaker, or follow up we wanted from the speaker or staff member on the given topic.
The surveys were anonymous, putting everyone on the same level.
