Thursday, 6 March 2014

What may have been unclear, ambiguous, or unfair in a survey

Instruction

Limitations
1.   What may have been unclear, ambiguous, or unfair in a survey?
2.   What will make analyzing your data difficult?
3.   What could be interpreted or defined in more than one way?
4.   Any bias or conflicts of interest?
Scope
1.   In what ways was your research limited to a certain area, region, or campus?
2.   Other restrictions on the size of this project? (time, access, etc.)
3.   (could potentially be combined with Limitations section)
Lack of time doing survey, survey size is not big,
Report Organization
1.   How is it organized?  (what does it feature?)
2.   What follows the body section?
3.   What preceded the introduction?

Why do student cheat?
How do student cheat?
How does professor think of cheating?
Survey questions…

Sample
Limitations of Research
This research has several limitations. First, survey questions seven and eight were unclear about what we meant by being “aware” of campus clubs. A student that is aware of two clubs may check “very aware,” just as a student who is aware of a dozen clubs may do the same. Second, in question nine, we needed to clarify what we meant by “involved on campus.” Someone who spends a full day on campus going to class, studying, and eating may mark that they are involved on campus, while someone who participates in multiple clubs may also do so. Finally, survey questions six, eight, and nine had an option for students to indicate that this is their first year, rather than answering the question. However, variances in the survey results show that some students did not use that option. These factors make analyzing the data complicated.
Report Scope
The scope of our report is limited to the XXX campus and the undergraduate students that are currently enrolled. This information may apply to other universities, but the focus of this report is XXX. We examined articles from other colleges that had similar problems to find correlations between those schools’ experiences and the observations we have made at XXX.
Organization

First we will present our interview and survey findings regarding the campus disconnect that stems from ineffective advertising in first-year housing. We will then discuss the efforts made by other college campuses to address the problem of the lack of student involvement. Finally, we will offer conclusions based on our research and make recommendations to help Student Housing communicate with campus clubs and organizations and increase student involvement among first-year students.

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