A survey is a system for collecting information from or about people to describe, compare, or explain their knowledge, attitudes, and behavior (Fink 1, The Survey Handbook). In today’s massive online prevalence, surveys are often seen seen through websites and phone applications regarding topics such as customer satisfaction or inquiries. Surveys are commonly encouraged for response at end of an online purchase or the bottom of a receipt. Surveys are cost-effective, generalizable, reliable, and versatile. However, surveys may also lack inflexibility and validity. (Fink 2, The Survey Handbook). Steps to create an effective survey involve identifying the focus of the study and the method of research, determining the research schedule and budget, …show more content…
A survey was the final chosen research tool based on convenience and efficiency in the use of close-ended questions. The survey’s objective was to discover how students spent their time at Ocean County College, if the students are overall satisfied with Ocean County College, what Ocean County College students do outside of class to estimate time available to spend on campus, and the relationship between time spent on campus verses the time spent at outside of Ocean County College to understand why the students spend time or small incriminates of time on …show more content…
Close-ended questions were chosen to ensure reliable answers, whereas open-ended questions would not have been an effective form in use of calculating results. While closed are more difficult to construct, responders, especially millennials, prefer to answer closed questions due to the unwilling to write or inability to express themselves in opened ended questions. 10 questions were asked on how students spend their time on campus, two questions were asked to determine the demographic, one question was asked for a satisfaction rating of Ocean County College, and three questions were asked to about social-life/job-life/school schedule to determine estimated available time a student acquires. Surveys can contain three types of response choices, categorical responses, ordinal, and numerical. Categorical response, also known as nominal responses, have two or more categories responses such as gender. Ordinal responses have a rating scale with close ended options from wording such as very poor to very good. Numerical responses involve numbers such as age and time. In this survey, five ordinal responses and 12 numerical responses were used (Fink 1-38, How to Ask Survey
There are a lot of dependent variables that play a major role in this study. These dependent variables are GPA, graduations rates, feelings overall about the school, faculty student involvement, campus involvement, and high school experiences.
... The acceptable rate for reliability of a questioner is 70%. It will be modified and updated. The questionnaire includes two parts. In part one, the participants will be asked to fill in some questions about their personal information regarding age, education and gender.
While you can conduct research for a survey, you can utilize a questionnaire to gather information for it. A questionnaire is a tool and a survey is a method of research. The survey was used to gain an insight on the employee’s perspective of the company’s atmosphere and the overall professional sense that was portrayed in the workplace. As well as what they felt was lacking thereof regarding marketing strategies. Whereas, the questionnaire was used to gain personal insight on the employee’s feeling and thoughts towards the company and their marketing program.
When conducting these surveys, you must know whom your target audience is and how you want to structure your survey so there isn’t any wasted space. Once the structuring of the survey is complete and results are gathered, be sure to include your management team and how you want to dissect the results. The parameters (Action, Belief, Understanding, Satisfaction, and Participation) are the keys to use when analyzing your results. “The Definitive Guide to HR Communication” suggests that you take your time and analyze your results with your management team to decide how to go about future changes based on your
As previously stated, a survey should encourage the respondent to answer all questions. Another area of concern is question twenty-one, the question is very long in length and would seem confusing to respondents. Unless the question is pertaining to a sensitive or personal topic, question should be short and to the point approximately 12 words or less (Boynton and Greenhalgh, 2004, pg. 1314). Moreover, questions should be presented that it does not require respondents to search elsewhere within the survey to understand the question (Jenkins and Dillman, 1995). The questionnaire includes an open ended questions, which requires the respondent to freely give their option.
The research is not without its limitations. One of the challenges that would be faced would be establishing the accuracy and bias in the various answers given by respondents. Some of the information may be dishonest, biased and unclear. This would render the report unreliable.
Kelley, K et al. (2003). Good practice in the conduct and reporting of survey research. Oxford Journal. 15 (3): 261-266.
Surveys are sent through emails. You have to check your email regularly. The survey contains a list of questions designed to find out what people like, what they are interested in, what kind of products they buy, why they choose one product over another, what they think of certain products, how much they spend on various products etc., Each question of the survey has 4 to 5 choice answers among which you have to choose an answer according to your opinion.
Survey may be done among small and large population and it is very flexible because survey can be done in many modes such as email survey, phone survey, face-to-face interview and others (Neutens & Rubinson, 2014). Evaluation Research: Evaluation method sets the standard
Each page you went next to would change the subject of the questions like for example there were equality, work, market, nation, liberty, authority, traditional, and progress. Do I agree with my result, not most of the time but some of my results I agree with them that it is what I am who I am. Also the last survey I took was project implicit the questions was about religious things if you believe in religion or are you passive. It asked me if I believed in a religion and ask is it important to you would you be passive if you had a chance. The question in project implicit was really deep the survey really wanted to know what you think and who you really are. From all the survey´s I took they all have one thing in common they all have a last question did the survey helped you in any way or would you show this website to your friends or other people. And the difference is that they all have different questions and different ways to get answers from you to make your answers to the results you're trying to find out. In the end it's up to you not everyone have the same mind as you same opinion as you so there is surveys to help you figure out who you really are or if which side are you on the world or are you with god who do you
Some students prefer larger class sizes; some prefer a more direct lecture from their professors. Tuition rates might sway a student’s decision when choosing a particular college. With the amount of post-secondary institutions in Florida, students may feel overwhelmed when deciding on the appropriate college for them. In Miami, Florida, public and private college share similarities and differences
The research methods that I used for this paper were surveys, interviews and observations. I performed a survey on ten college students in which I asked various yes and no questions and ones with various multiple-choice answers. Do you have a meal ...
An ordinal scale designates direction, in addition to providing nominal information. Faster and slower or high, medium, and low are illustrations of ordinal levels of meas...
Studying, friends, and money: all of these are areas that normally consume an average college student’s time. The main reason students attend college is to learn and develop skills for their future career, but they need money to pay for it, and friends help make the journey less lonely and stressful. Most college students prefer to live on campus for a variety of reasons, whether they attend a college far from home, or they just want to get out and expand their social skills. Many other students, on the other hand, prefer to live off campus, if they live close to the college, or they have other responsibilities. Although most students do live on campus, the number of commuters is high as well, which may prove that either option is able to meet the educational, social, and financial needs of the average college student in their own way.
Survey consisted of all close ended questions. All the questions/statements were followed by a 5 point Likert scale (Strongly Agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree, Strongly Disagree).