DLESE (Digital Library for Earth System Education) Program Center

1.What is your professional field?

	1	2	3	4
1	113 78.47%	Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
2	18 12.5%	Other Geoscience	Please specify:	TXT
3	2 1.39%	Other traditional scientific field such as Physics	Please specify:	TXT
4	1 0.69%	Social Science field	Please specify:	TXT
5	6 4.17%	Technical field such as computer science	Please specify:	TXT
6	4 2.78%	Other	Please specify:	TXT


Total responses:	144

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2.What is your primary professional role?

Option	Count	Percent
1. research	99	53.8%
2. teaching	52	28.26%
3. service/outreach	16	8.7%
4. administration	14	7.61%
5. other (please specify):	3	1.63%
Total	184	100%

Median:	1.0	Minimum value:	1
Total responses:	133	Maximum value:	5

3.Check those selections that describe your experience with DLESE: (Check all that apply.)

Option	Count	Percent
1. visited the website	69	35.57%
2. contributed to the collection	16	8.25%
3. used resources in teaching	25	12.89%
4. used resources for research	8	4.12%
5. referred students to DLESE for their use	24	12.37%
6. not aware of DLESE until now	52	26.8%
Total	194	100%

Median:	3.0	Minimum value:	1
Total responses:	121	Maximum value:	6

4.If you have used DLESE in the past, what were your purposes? (Check all that apply.)

To find the following Earth System education resources:

Option	Count	Percent
1. data	21	29.58%
2. data analysis tools	10	14.08%
3. general topic information	34	47.89%
4. other	6	8.45%
Total	71	100%

Median:	3.0	Minimum value:	1
Total responses:	54	Maximum value:	4

To use DLESE resources for: (Check all that apply.)

Option	Count	Percent
1. university/college classroom teaching	44	61.11%
2. home-school teaching	3	4.17%
3. research	20	27.78%
4. other (please specify):	5	6.94%
Total	72	100%

Median:	1.0	Minimum value:	1
Total responses:	54	Maximum value:	4

To share the following earth system education resources: (Check all that apply.)

Option	Count	Percent
1. data	28	35.0%
2. data analysis tools	21	26.25%
3. general topic information	28	35.0%
4. other (please specify):	3	3.75%
Total	80	100%

Median:	2.0	Minimum value:	1
Total responses:	47	Maximum value:	4

5.Please rank the following digital library resources in order of their importance to you, with 5 being the highest:

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1		1	2	3	4	5
2	Geoscience resources	10 25.64%	12 18.75%	9 14.52%	22 34.38%	19 35.85%
3	Educational resources	13 33.33%	11 17.19%	9 14.52%	17 26.56%	23 43.4%
4	Community and potential collaborator resources	5 12.82%	18 28.13%	27 43.55%	11 17.19%	3 5.66%
5	Information on educational effectiveness	5 12.82%	23 35.94%	17 27.42%	14 21.88%	2 3.77%
6	Other	6 15.38%	0	0	0	6 11.32%	please specify:	TXT


Total responses:	82

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6.Please indicate whether you agree or disagree (on a scale of 1-5) with the following statement: “I believe that there is a need for ‘peer reviewed’ Internet resources, much as there is a ‘peer review’ process for ‘classic’ publications.”

Strongly disagree	1	2	3	4	5	Strongly agree	Total
Count	5	4	17	31	42		99
Percent	5.05%	4.04%	17.17%	31.31%	42.42%		100%

Average:	4.02	Minimum value:	1	Variance:	1.22
Median:	4.0	Maximum value:	5	Std. deviation:	1.11

7.Is DLESE a place where you would choose to disseminate scientific and educational resources that were developed as part of your work?

Option	Count	Percent
1. Yes	59	70.24%
2. No	25	29.76%
Total	84	100%

Median:	1.0	Minimum value:	1
Total responses:	84	Maximum value:	2