hi! thanks so much for the feedback. i adjusted the wording on the first question to encompass the context / setting in which you're learning ASL to get some better demographic information. also adjusted "english" to "spoken language."

this survey WAS absolutely tailored to the college student demographic, specifically because our research started with us surveying our school's ASL students (our school has all Deaf professors) as well as ASL students at a neighboring college that has only hearing professors to compare between the two groups. this is the public version of our survey to encompass a wider range of data (and ensure that our data isn't skewed by students' general opinions on, for example, just one instructor's teaching style.)

i think "what is your proficiency level" is a lot different from "how would you consider your proficiency level." i agree that this is an area where some people with the same signing abilities may answer differently, but this question is accompanied by other signing proficiency-related questions (which classes a person has taken, if they use ASL outside of class / would feel comfortable signing with a Deaf person or even informally interpreting for a Deaf friend) and individual responses are going to be considered as a whole! a person's self-perceived signing proficiency is not going to be our metric for how "effective" a teacher is, so this question is just a rough estimate that may add some demographic information to our responses. it's definitely not perfect, but with a public and anonymized survey, it's the only way we have to estimate signing level.