Appendix A: Survey Results

Research Question: What do students find helpful when learning about race?

To help students learn about race I used a number of different activities. All of the following activities were done during the 9^th and 10^th week of class. During week 11 students filled out a survey asking them for their feedback about the race-related learning activities. For each activity they used the following rating system.

1. I found it helpful in learning about race and/or about discrimination

2. I did not find it helpful in learning about race and/or discrimination

3. I didn't read it/wasn't there for that activity

4. I don't remember it

Below is a summary of students' responses, indicating how many students (out of the 37 who took the survey) found the activity to be helpful in learning about race and/or discrimination.

Student Responses (n = 37 students):

The Activity Was Helpful in Learning About Race and/or Discrimination

Comments made by other students in class	31
Video: True Colors	30
Video: A Question of Race: How Biased Are You	30
Reading: 10 Things Everyone Should Know About Race 10 things everyone should know about race	26
Discrimination relay	26
Writing: First memory of being in a racial category	26
Reading: Colorblind Racism Colorblind Racism	21
Reading: A Long History of Affirmative Action -- For Whites A long history of affirmative action for whites	22
Short readings at the beginning of class	19
Group Discussion: How do we decide what race someone is?	19
Lecture: Categorizing based on the idea of "groupness"	19
Social cognition theory	18
Lecture: Different levels of racism	16
The reading in the textbook	15
Lecture: Discrimination law and Big Bird Story	15
Extra Credit Quiz -- which was optional	13

I also asked for comments about which particular activities had been most and least helpful. The majority of the students did not offer comments. Those offered are summarized below.

What activities were most useful?

Videos (in general; no specific video named)	12
Video: True Colors	6
Video: A Question of Race	2
Class Lectures	4
Class Activities	3

What activities were least useful?

Readings	5 + 6 = 11 **
Video: A question of race	4
Lectures	3
"everything was useful"	4

** "Readings" was the most common response for what was least useful, with 5 responses; in addition a total of 6 other comments focused on a particular reading, with some students offering qualifying remarks such as "only because I have a hard time reading" and "I'm not really interested in reading from textbooks."

In this section 4 students voluntarily commented that everything had been useful.