Creating Demographic Slides and Linking Demographic Responses to a

Participant List

Gerald Bergtrom, Ph.D.Learning Technology CenterUniversity of Wisconsin – MilwaukeeOctober 2005

Edited by Tanya Joosten, Alan Aycock, Susan Gifford

About Demographic Slides:

•In TurningPoint, a demographic question is any one that allows grouping students in some category.

•Demographics include familiar items like age, gender, religion, family size, etc.

•Other items that can categorize a student include prerequisites completed, professional goals, number of credits being taken, hours per week spent on a part time job, etc.

Create slides asking for demographic information

In this tutorial you will:

‘Tell’ TurningPoint that a slide is demographic

Extract the Participant List to link responses to demographic questions to student names

Creating Slides Asking for Demographic Information, and

‘Telling’ Turningpoint that a Slide is in Fact Demographic

Click on Insert Slide on the TP toolbar and select Vertical Slide to create a TP slide.

Type a stem and responses. To tell TP that this is a demographic slide…

…click on the eyeglass icon on the TP toolbar, click on demographic in the dropdown Settings window.

The default highlight is False; click on True.

Finally, click Done.

…You will be returned to the slide.

TurningPoint now ‘knows’ that the slide solicits a demographic response, allowing you to group responses to other questions in the current TP session by demographic profile.

Let’s link the demographic responses to the participant list, allowing correlations of demographic items to any other question in future TP sessions.

Extracting the Participant List to Link Responses to Demographic

Questions to Student Names

To link student demographic data to a participant list at the end of a presentation session containing demographic responses:

click on the Save Session icon (the floppy disk on the TP toolbar).

In the TurningPoint Save Session window, give the session a name that you will recognize later…

Then click Save to save the session.

After being retuned to your last slide, click Tools, then Turning Reports.

In the Turning Report Wizard – Current Session window, select Extract Participant List, then click Next.

In this window, select My Session Files, highlight the session file containing responses to demographic questions and then click Extract Participant List.

In the Save Edited Session window, highlight and click the Participant List you are modifying; it appears in the File Name box. Click Save.

Note: you may give the Participant List a new name before saving it.

If you do not want to give the extracted Participant File a new name, click Yes to this prompt.

Here, click OK, then Finish.

You will be returned to your presentation. Let’s check the participant List. Click on the arrow next to Participants on the TP toolbar, then on Edit a Participant List.

Highlight the Participant List you just modified, and click Open.

Use the scroll bar in the Participant Information window to see the student-linked responses to your demographic questions.

George 100098

Jonathan 345098

Mary 676897Herbert 976754

George 232587

Annalise 156888

Joanne 446578

Martin 986504

Samantha 789039

Using your extracted Participant List:

Each time you load this Participant List for a new session/presentation, you will be able to generate reports correlating student responses to new session questions with demographic data collected earlier.

Note: Starting at Turning Reports in Tools, you can link demographic data from any session to a Participant List at any time.

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