...NAME: MATTHEW BRNOW TEACHER: SCHOOL: DATE: TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 3 INTRODUCTION 4 STATEMENT OF PROBLEMS 6 RESEARCH QUESTIONS: 6 METHODS OF INVESTIGATION 8 ADVANTAGES OF PRINTED QUESTIONNAIRE 8 DISADVANTAGES OF PRINTED QUESTIONNAIRE 9 INSTRUMENT USED TO COLLECT DATA 13 QUESTIONNAIRE 13 PROCEDURES USED TO COLLECT DATA 19 PRESENTATION AND EXPLANATION OF DATA 21 INTERPRETATION OF DATA 30 FINDINGS 32 RECOMMENDATION 34 TASK1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM An investigation on the impact which school absenteeism has on teenagers in the parish of ST.Andrew Tavern Avenue Kingston Reach questions: TASK2 THE RATIONALE My reason for choosing this topic is that there are too many young men in the community not attending school. This leads to idling which causes young men to get involved in negative activities. TASK3 METHOD OF INVESTIGATION Questionnaire. Advantages of Questionnaire * Very cost effective when compared to face-to-face interview. * Easy to analyse. * Provides a level of confidentiality. Disadvantages of Questionnaire * Some questionnaires may not be suitable for some people. * Persons may give false information. * Questionnaires May become damaged TASK 4 INSTRUMENTS USED TO COLLECT DATA QUESTIONNAIR Please tick the appropriate box provided. 1. What is your gender? Male Female 2. What is your age group...
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...3Chapter 3 Research Methodology This chapter presents the research methodology which includes the research design, methods and procedures used in conducting the study. It also includes the subject respondents, research instrument, research environment or locale of the study and analysis of the data gathered. Research Design Descriptive research is used in the study and defined as a description, recording, analysis and interpretation of the presented data. This type of research is the most commonly used and the basic reason for carrying out descriptive research is to identify the cause of something that is happening (DJS Research Ltd, 2010). Descriptive research can be either quantitative or qualitative. It can involve collections of quantitative information that can be tabulated along a continuum in numerical form, such as scores on a test or the number of times a person chooses to use a-certain feature of a multimedia program, or it can describe categories of information such as gender or patterns of interaction when using technology in a group situation. Descriptive research involves gathering data that describe events and then organizes, tabulates, depicts, and describes the data collection (Glass & Hopkins, 1984). The process of descriptive research goes beyond mere gathering and tabulation of the information and data. It involves interpretation of the significance of what is described. Descriptive research may also be defines as a process of gathering, analyzing...
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...Introduction Surveys and experiments can prove to be an extremely valuable tool that organizations can use to gain pertinent information. In order to effectively utilize these tools firms must pay careful attention to the design, methodology, and ethical issues of the experiment chosen. Among these issues are variables in conducting experiments with human subjects, design elements affecting the accuracy of the experiment, and questions of methodology. The information below addresses each of these concerns and describes how experiments can become a valuable tool for organizations to plan for the future. Question 9.4 – Ethical Problems in Conducting Experiments with Human Subjects After choosing the experimental design, the researcher must then select and assign participants for the study. According to Cooper and Schindler (2014), participants selected for an experiment should be members of the population in which the researcher wishes to make interpretations about. When choosing to conduct experiments with humans as the main subjects, researchers should be aware of various ethical concerns that may arise. When ethical problems are debated in the research design process, most people often think first about defending the rights of the participant. Whether observations are taken from an interview, survey, or an experiment, the participant has many rights that need to be protected during the research process. As discussed in the text, research must be designed in a way...
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...survey, or self-administered questionnaire. Give your reasons. a) A survey of the residents of a new subdivision on why they happened to select that area in which to live. You also wish to secure some information about what they like and do not like about life in the subdivision. For a survey of residents, I go for a Personal Interview. My reason for this is because the desired sample consists of respondents in a very specific target population of a new subdivision. I think that the main advantage is that the response rates are very good; the respondents should have the ability to speak truth about the situation. Also, longer interviews are sometimes tolerated; and attitudinal behavior can be best observed with this method. Though this method is more time consuming, it will lead to the best results. It is more friendly and tends to lead to best results. b) A poll of students at Metro University on their preferences among three candidates who are running for president of the student government. Questionnaire - The fact that self-administered questionnaire data are not collected by interviewers makes it a relatively cheaper way of collecting large amounts of data when compared to the cost of hiring interviewers, plus the cost of training them to conduct the interviews. Self-administered questionnaires are also effective at eliciting responses on topics that are sensitive. Respondents might feel less intimidated to answer a mailed questionnaire when compared to being confronted...
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...professional standards codes and guidelines and we only conduct surveys for the purpose of marketing research and intelligence. We maintain and update full profile information for all our members on a regular basis and also actively recruit new members to join. Keeping the membership database fresh and engaged has resulted in high response rates for every survey – typically, depending on the complexity or scarcity of the sample, or the sensitivity of the subject, this will be between 12% and 35%. We have defined and implemented a clear set of rules to ensure that quality is our highest priority and support this through regular contact with our members. Currently, we have access to more than 40 million households in over 70 countries – and manage the relationship with global consumers on a daily basis. 10 steps of quality control 1. Maintain database – reliable and up to date 2. Confirm respondent’s identity 3. Screen with strict procedure 4. Select accurately the right sample 5. Inspect and test questionnaire thoroughly 6. Use self-completion method 7. Create user friendly questionnaire 8. Monitor feedback extensively 9. Check questionnaire responses rigorously 10. Offer credible reward system 1 10 steps of quality control Database A large household access requires a wide range of sources for recruitment mainly to ensure that KNOTs Research avoids systematic biases inherent to certain sources. KNOTs Research recruitment is based on large...
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...Questionnaire design This Advice Sheet introduces you to the some of the basics of designing a good questionnaire. Many research projects and dissertations demand the collection of primary data from individuals. Questionnaires are often the best way of gathering such information and views. However, a badly designed questionnaire may get only unusable responses or none at all. This Advice Sheet offers guidance on avoiding the pitfalls, and ensuring a successful result. What do you want to know? 1 Maximise success …. 1 Who to ask …. 1 Clear instructions …. 2 Questions …. 2 Order & layout …. 3 Email vs Print .... 3 Piloting …. 4 Further reading …. 4 What do you want to know? Before you even write the first question, it is important that you have a very clear idea about what you want your questionnaire to achieve. Write down your research goals, and think about what information you need to elicit from respondents to meet those goals. Think also about how you are going to analyse each question to get the results you need. Remember there is a difference between things you need to know, and those it would be nice to know. Eliminate unnecessary lines of questioning at the planning stage. Maximise your chances of success The aim of questionnaire design is to a) get as many responses as you can that are b) usable and accurate. To maximise your response rate: • Give your questionnaire a short and meaningful title • Keep the questionnaire as short and succinct as possible • Offer...
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...A questionnaire is a research instrument consisting of a series of questions and other prompts for the purpose of gathering informationfrom respondents. Although they are often designed for statistical analysis of the responses, this is not always the case. The questionnaire was invented by Sir Francis Galton Questionnaires have advantages over some other types of surveys in that they are cheap, do not require as much effort from the questioner as verbal or telephone surveys, and often have standardized answers that make it simple to compile data. However, such standardized answers may frustrate users. Questionnaires are also sharply limited by the fact that respondents must be able to read the questions and respond to them. Thus, for some demographic groups conducting a survey by questionnaire may not be concrete. As a type of survey, questionnaires also have many of the same problems relating to question construction and wording that exist in other types of opinion polls. ------------------------------------------------- Types A distinction can be made between questionnaires with questions that measure separate variables, and questionnaires with questions that are aggregated into either a scale or index.[1] Questionnaires within the former category are commonly part of surveys, whereas questionnaires in the latter category are commonly part of tests. Questionnaires with questions that measure separate variables, could for instance include questions on: * preferences...
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... to study the interaction between advertising/promotion and other relevant factors, and to investigate how customers’ responses to advertising and promotion can be influenced by other important factors, such as demographic factors, product categories, and price consciousness. The sample was norandom, there are selected which is two group of Chinese female respondent have been selected as sample of the survey questionnaire. One group is young women (20-25 years old); the other group is middle-aged women (40-45 years old). The sampling is good but there are error in distributing the questionnaires which the respondent come from different cities which may affect the the result of the finding. The result may not accurate due to the differences in behaviour, economic , income and lifestyle between the respondent. Futhermore, when we refer demographic variables on the questionnaires, there are only a matter of age had been tested.Researcher should test more than one demographic variables to investigate the impact of demographic variables on brand switching. The researchers submitted five hyphothesis which first hypothesis was Advertising and promotion have strong impact on customers’ brand choice. Second hypothesis was Advertising and promotion would have different impact on different stages of brand choice decision making. Third hypothesis was Customers’ responses to advertising and promotion in terms of brand-switching would vary across different product category. The fourt hypothesis...
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...Sociological Research Skills Name of Method Research Methods Questionnaires Brief Outline of Method A questionnaire is a list of written questions that can be completed in one of two basic ways Firstly, respondents could be asked to complete the questionnaire with the researcher not present. This is a postal questionnaire and (loosely) refers to any questionnaire that a respondent completes without the aid of the researcher. Secondly, respondents could be asked to complete the questionnaire by verbally responding to questions in the presence of the researcher. This variation is called a structured interview. Although the two variations are similar (a postal questionnaire and a structured interview could contain exactly the same questions), the difference between them is important. If, for example, we are concerned with protecting the respondent’s anonymity then it might be more appropriate to use a postal questionnaire than a structured interview. Questionnaires are restricted to two basic types of question: Closed-ended (or “closed question”) is a question for which a researcher provides a suitable list of responses (e.g. Yes / No). This produces mainly quantitative data. Open-ended (or “open question”) is a question where the researcher doesn’t provide the respondent with a set answer from which to choose. Rather, the respondent is asked to answer "in their own words". This produces mainly qualitative data. Strengths / Uses of Method Weaknesses / Limitations of Method...
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...responded to the survey questionnaires expressed a high level of interest in the topics of corporate restructuring and redesign of benefits programs. However, a critical review of the claim and its premise cast some doubts on the validity of the argument. First, corporate restructuring and redesign of benefit programs is a small part of management issues and thus cannot be used as a basis to say workers have interest in management issues. Second, for workers to have merely indicate on a questionnaire that they have interest in the topics of corporate restructuring and design of benefit programs is not enough to conclude that they actually do it in reality. Finally, a generalization made from the result of a survey with a sample size of 1,200 workers without stating the population size is not adequate. First and foremost, the discussion will touch on the inadequacy of the premise as against the claim. With this, I state that, corporate restructuring and redesign of benefit programs is a small part of management issues and thus cannot be used as a basis to say workers have interest in management issues. Management issues encompass several measures. These are inclusive of spinning of departments into agencies to enhance efficiency, changing of product lines, merging with or acquiring of other firms and so on. Again, the emphasis of benefit programs is so obvious that workers will be concerned with since it directly affect them thereby resulting in the kind of response from them. Also...
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...Executive Summary This survey was done to help the student services department to understand workshops and seminars suitable for art students. To achieve this purpose, this survey was done by collecting data from 22 art students in art school. Data collection was by the use of a survey questionnaire containing two questions. The first question sought to rate how students were interested in undertaking different workshops. The last question was open ended seeking to understand other workshops that students would like to attend. To avoid getting blank responses, each participant was asked the questions and the researcher wrote the response on their behalf. The results indicated that 17 students were interested in attending the creativity workshop. However, most participants were not interested in the “wordpress” workshop. For the second question only nine participants identified other workshops in which they wish to attend. A Survey was done in an Art School to find out which Workshops and Seminars would be helpful for Art Students Introduction/Problem Statement Educational institutions recognize the need of students’ involvement in decision making. This attribute is seen as vital because it helps students select what they think would benefit them and help improve on their educational outcomes (Murphy 56). In particular, education institutions have been using seminars and workshops as tools to improve on the development of their students. In designing these workshops, evaluating...
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...suitable sample. Within our proposed region of BELB primary schools (those who are classified under the Belfast Education and Library Board) there exists 31 schools. This was then formed as our sample frame, with the intention of getting the co-operation of as many schools as possible in order to make generalisations about the wider population as a result of our findings. As previously mentioned, BELB was chosen due to logistical and time issues we anticipated to keep to a minimal, in comparison to what a wider sample population would have created, Having previously decided on a questionnaire as the tool for our proposed method of survey; we then agreed on what questions to decide based on our background knowledge of the topic. ( A copy of the questionnaire can be found at appendix ). We were influenced by elements of a positivist perspective by focusing on a ‘closed-question’ style questionnaire. The advantages of this will be that it should allow for us to easily quantify our findings and as a result create Visual aids to help give increased understanding of our findings about the phenomena of the...
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...of fellow colleagues and other people. We wish to express gratitude to all of them for actively participating in our survey. We are grateful to our college for providing infrastructure and internet facilities due to which we were able to complete this project on time. Last but not least, we wish to avail this opportunity to express a sense of gratitude and love to our friends and our beloved parents for their manual support, strength, help and for everything. Place:Pilani Date: 26th October 2012 CONTENTS * List of Illustrations/Figures * Abstract * Introduction 1. Questionnaire 2.1. Current Curriculum 2.2. Research Techniques and Survey Methods 2.3. Survey Screenshots 2. Observation and Analysis 3.4. Responses from Inexperienced candidates 3.5. Responses from Experienced Candidates 3.6. Analysis based on Responses 3. Conclusion and Proposals 4.7. Conclusion 4.8. Benefits 4.9. Challenges 4.10. Proposal * Appendix A * Appendix B * References * Glossary List of Illustrations/Figures...
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...Title The title for the proposed study is THE EFFECT OF TIME MANAGEMENT IN AN ORGANISATION. This paper will present the different methods, approaches and instruments to be used in order to implement the study successfully in the future. Background of the Study/Literature Review The saying “Time is money while effectiveness is life” has been accepted by more and more people. Time is a special and rare resource (Drucker, 1985), therefore, there is a close relationship between how to use time effectively and everyone’s work, study and life. Background of the Study/Literature Review The saying “Time is money while effectiveness is life” has been accepted by more and more people. Time is a special and rare resource (Drucker, 1985), therefore, there is a close relationship between how to use time effectively and everyone’s work, study and life. Time is a major organizational resource. The effective exploitation and utilization of time has a positive effect on the regular function and development of an organization (Schriber and Gutek, 1987). Management activity consists of five main factors: goal, human, environment, time and information. Time management is a major element of organizational and individual management. How to effectively exploit and utilize time resource connects closely with the chairman of the board, general manager and even down to every grass-roots worker. What is more, the crucial importance of a manager and the typical characters of their work...
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...CHAPTER 1 Problem and its Background - I choose this problem because; I want to know what are the reasons why a student like me lost the interest of studying. Introduction - According to research a student might regardless of the objective value of an activity or topic, if students do not recognize its value, they may not be motivated to expend effort. Assumption - The respondents have different age, gender, year level and economic status. The respondents have different reasons in losing their interest in studying. The respondents have different affection in their choices. The respondents have different possible solution in their problem. Significance of the studies - The researcher aims to make full analysis of the students which can be important to the: students, teachers and parents or guardian. Scope and Limitations - The researcher limits were from the age bracket 15-20. CHAPTER 2 Review of related literature and studies - This chapter presents “Students do not believe that their efforts will improve their performance.” If students do not believe that their efforts are likely to improve their performance, they will not be motivated to work hard. Motivation can be affected, for instance, if a course that has a reputation for being inordinately difficult. Related study - We can all agree that meaningful schoolwork promotes students' learning of academic content. But why stop there? I believe that meaningful work can also teach students to love challenges,...
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