Thank you for using the Levels of Conceptual Understanding in Statistics (LOCUS) project website. As you may know, the LOCUS project is funded by the National Science Foundation. The LOCUS project is based at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and led by Dr. Tim Jacobbe. It is being evaluated by the STEM Education Evaluation Center (SEEC) at TERC, a non-profit STEM education research and development organization located in Cambridge, MA.

  1. Purpose: This survey is part of the external evaluation of LOCUS. SEEC staff are collecting feedback from LOCUS website users. The LOCUS project will use this feedback to improve the website and materials.
  2. Procedures: You will complete an online survey. The survey is anonymous, although if you choose to provide your email address to participate in an optional follow-up phone interview, your responses will be associated with your email address.
  3. Risks and benefits: The survey asks about your profession, your reasons for visiting the website, and your level of satisfaction, so the risks to you are minimal. Responses are anonymous, except if you choose to provide your email address. The survey will take about 2 minutes of your time. There are no direct benefits to you, but your responses may help improve the LOCUS website and materials, and you may benefit from that. 
  4. What we do with the results: Survey responses will be summarized and described in a report for the LOCUS project team. This report will also be shared with the National Science Foundation. SEEC researchers may present about the study at conferences or in publications for researchers or educators. Your identity will remain entirely confidential whether or not you choose to provide your email address with your survey responses. 

Participation in the survey is voluntary. You may decide to withdraw at any time. Withdrawal or refusal to participate will not impact your access to the LOCUS website.

If you have questions about the survey or the research, please contact the lead evaluator at SEEC, Jim Hammerman, at 617-873-9600, jim_hammerman (at) terc (dot) edu. You can also contact Teon Edwards on TERC’s oversight board for human subjects research (IRB) at 617-873-9600, teon_edwards (at) terc (dot) edu.