This survey was conducted by the Office of Budget and Institutional Research over the telephone during December 1997 and January 1998. A sample of 1,100 students were taken from among those students enrolled in autumn quarter of 1997-98. Of that sample, 615 students were contacted for a 56% response rate. The sampling error is a 3% with a confidence interval of 95%.
Approximately how many times have you used a computer at WSU in the past year?
Responses
%
Not used at all
153
25%
1 -10
182
30%
11-25
67
11%
26-50
82
13%
51-100
49
8%
Over 100
82
13%
Total
615
How do you use the WSU computer labs?
(since there is an overlap of usage, percentages do not total 100%)
Responses
%
Word processing
311
51%
Email
249
40%
Web access
248
40%
Graphics
67
11%
Programming
61
10%
Mathematics or stats
58
9%
Other
159
26%
If you wanted to use a lab at WSU but were unable to, what were some of the reasons for this?
Reasons
Responses
Lab full
204
Network failure
90
Needed software not available
17
Adequate help not available
18
Lab closed
86
Other
32
What dollar amount of student fee money do you think should be spent on computing at WSU?
(WSU students were apprised of their current computing fee, their total student fee, and both of these amounts at Uof U, USU, SUU, and Snow College.)
