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Promotion, Site Feedback and Monitoring
Promotion - Spreading the URL
To be effective STaRS has to be known about in schools. Therefore we promoted STaRS through a variety of media. These included various New Zealand education Web sites, the international AstroWeb consortium, Royal Society of New Zealand email news, New Zealand Association of Science Educators newsletter, New Zealand astronomical society newsletters and teacher mailouts from Carter Observatory.STaRS Survey Form
A Web survey form is included for New Zealand teachers to complete and return. The survey questions include name; school; grade or year level; school district; how STaRS was heard of; ratings for ease of use, activities, resources; and a comment box. Over the 3 month period of STaRS version 1, no completed survey forms were received. This result was disappointing since the estimated completion time of the survey was only 2-3 minutes. A targeted survey was sent to ten local and international astronomy teachers and educators. Seven responses were received and these showed that STaRS had achieved a ``Very Good'' rating in both site design and content.Site hits and user statistics
A site meter was used to monitor the usage of STaRS. As of 31 June 1999 (15 August 1999), STaRS had 755 (993) hits. New Zealand comprised 80 percent of the users, with users from Australia, U.K. and U.S.A. at the 5 percent level or less.Next Section: Conclusions and Future Plans
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