Yearbook Questionnaire
NEED STUDENT FEEDBACK?
Getting feedback from the student body is a great way to gain students’ interest in buying a yearbook. Use the questionnaire below or develop your own — you know your student body best. Use the information you gather when planning your next yearbook to make this book something students will return to long after graduation.
1. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE MORE OF IN THE YEARBOOK? (PLEASE CIRCLE ALL THAT APPLY)
A. Sports
B. Student Life (Including what goes on outside of school)
C. Academics
D. Clubs and Organizations
E. More Pictures
F. More Captions
G. Me
H. Other (briefly explain)
2. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE LESS OF IN THE YEARBOOK? (PLEASE CIRCLE ALL THAT APPLY)
A. Sports
B. Student Life (Including what goes on outside of school)
C. Academics
D. Clubs and Organizations
E. More Pictures
F. More Captions
G. Me
H. Other (briefly explain)
3. DO YOU FEEL IT IS IMPORTANT TO BUY A YEARBOOK EACH YEAR? YES NO
(briefly explain)
4. WOULD YOU BE MORE LIKELY TO BUY A YEARBOOK IF: (PLEASE CIRCLE ALL THAT APPLY)
A. The price was less?
B. You could make payments?
C. You could fundraise for the price of the yearbook and/or senior recognition ad?
D. You were in it more?
E. There was more in the book that you wanted to see?
F. Other (briefly explain)
5. WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE MORE INVOLVED IN THE THEME AND COVER FOR THE YEARBOOK? YES NO
6. PLEASE TELL US WHAT WE CAN DO TO MAKE THIS YEAR’S BOOK ALL YOU WISH IT TO BE.
Contributed by:
Ginger Thompson
Herff Jones Sales Professional, KY
Additional Resources
The Purpose of Yearbook
In the children’s book Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox, a young boy searches for ways to find lost memories for an old woman who had lost her own. Through his persistent questions and vivid imagination, he inspires her to remember events from her past. A yearbook should allow any reader to do the same when it is visited years later.
WE'VE ALL SAID IT BEFORE
If you’ve been a yearbooker very long, you’ve probably been in a conversation — or 15 —about how yearbook is forever.
You’ve likely preached it as you work with newbies — and when you’re reminding experienced staffers they can do better. Your mantra about creating the only permanent record of the school year probably echoes in the heads of staffers every time they recall their yearbook experiences.
Countdown Craftiness
‘Tis the season to take a step back from the computer. That’s right. Put down the spreads. Take one step back. Now another. Now a deep breath.
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